. The Bashford Dean memorial volume :. Fishes; Sharks; Fishes, Fossil. 666 Bashford Dean Memorial Volume criticised by Maclay and Macleay (1879;, who alleged that it is so unlike the fish it is intended to represent as to suggest a doubt of its being the same species. In 1884 Maclay and Macleay stated definitely that this figure, which they call "a very bad one", does not represent the Port Jackson Shark. In Lesson's figure the color pattern of the body is unHke that of any other drawing of Heterodontus ph-illipi known to me, and the shape of the ventral lobe of the caudal fin is unH
. The Bashford Dean memorial volume :. Fishes; Sharks; Fishes, Fossil. 666 Bashford Dean Memorial Volume criticised by Maclay and Macleay (1879;, who alleged that it is so unlike the fish it is intended to represent as to suggest a doubt of its being the same species. In 1884 Maclay and Macleay stated definitely that this figure, which they call "a very bad one", does not represent the Port Jackson Shark. In Lesson's figure the color pattern of the body is unHke that of any other drawing of Heterodontus ph-illipi known to me, and the shape of the ventral lobe of the caudal fin is unHke that in all other drawings of specimens belonging to the genus Heterodontus. It is not necessary to reproduce this figure, since it â w.^s e\'idently from a dried and distorted specimen. Miiller and Henle's full'length colored portrait (1841, pi. 31) labelled Cestracion philUpi is reproduced, under its proper name, as my Text-figure 21, page 690. In 1879 Macleay expressed a doubt as to the identity of the species represented by this figure, and in particular stated that the form of the six-cusped tooth pictured by Miiller and Henle (but omitted from my Text-figure 21) had never, they beHeved, been seen in any adult specimen of the Port Jackson Shark. Further, in 1884, Maclay and Macleay stated that Miiller and Henle's figure is most likely of the Japanese species, the number of vertical bands being identical, and that the tooth portrayed in the same plate is certainly not of either species. x'\t the present time one can scarcely doubt that Miiller and Henle's figure of the entire fish is a fairly accurate representation of the Japanese Bullhead Shark, Heterodontus japonicus. The same may be said of Brevoort's drawing (1856) of a specimen collected by the Perry Expedition to Japan. This specimen was labelled Cestracion phillippi; it is reproduced, under its proper name, as 22, page 690. Striiver (1864) has contributed what appears to be an accura
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