Some sharks, however, of an enormous size have been seen and caught thereabouts, though of what sort cannot here be determined.
Genus CXXXI.

Squalus .-- Lin.

Syst.
WATTS'S SHARK.
This, we believe, is a species which has hitherto escaped the researches of our Icthyologists.

The length of the specimen is nineteen inches: the head is broad, and angular in shape; but the body rounded, and nearly equal in its dimensions for above half the length, when it suddenly grows very small, and so continues to the end of the tail: the colour of the body is brown in different shades, and there are three rows of large pale spots, of an irregular shape, most of them dark within; one row passes down the middle, the others are on each side; besides which there are others below them less conspicuous.

The mouth is placed nearer the end of the head than in most of the genus, and furnished in the front with nine sharp crooked teeth, in three rows, and a great number of small ones on each side.