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below the posterior part of the eye, and rather broad; lips moderately 

 fleshy; teeth small, compressed, and with small basal cusp; spiracle 

 rather large, nearer the eye than the first gill-opening and the space 

 between a little more than the length of the snout; gill-openings in 

 front of the T)ase of the pectoral, the longest about half the eye. 



Dorsal fins each with a spine, the base of the first a little behind the 

 tip of the pectoral, rather short, sharply pointed, and projecting little 

 above the skin; second dorsal spine nearly as high as the fin, and the 

 upper half exposed; pectorals about equal to the snout; ventrals small, 

 posterior, and entirely in front of the second dorsal spine; caudal 

 elongate, and the lower lobe little produced. 



Color in spirits uniform dark grayish brown, almost black, the tips 

 of spinules pale. 



This description from a young female from Totomi Bay, off Numazu, 

 12 inches in length. It was dredged I)}' the United States Fish Com- 

 mission steamer Albatross in 1900; and is numbered 49524 in the United 

 States National jSluseum. 



The genus Deania, named in honor of Dr. Bashford Dean, in recog- 

 nition of his researches on Selachian fishes, is an ally of Oentrop/wrus, 

 from which it is distinguished b}^ its velvety squamation, each scale 

 ending in fhree or four radiating spinules arranged in the fashion of 

 a star. 



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