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the latter's base; anal small, low, its origin a little nearer origin of 

 ventrals than origin of lower caudal lobe; pectorals larger than other 

 fins, broad, and with their niai'gin nearly straight; ventrals rather 

 long; caudal equal to space between origin of its lower lobe, which is 

 not very deep. 



Color light brown, a trifle darker above; small round black spots 

 irret>-ularly grouped in dou])le rows over back, on the sides, and 

 between them more or less of a warmer thit; lower parts pale, 

 immaculate, except on tail, where there are one or two dark spots; 

 spots on caudal small. 



Total length 15^ inches (39 cm., 4 mm.). 



Thi.s description is from a dried skin taken at Nagasaki by M. Yahiro. 



Coast of Japan and southward, not common; seen at Misaki and 

 Nagasaki. 



(Named for M. Burger, who collected specimens and paintings 

 about Nagasaki for Temminck and Schlegel.) 



8. CEPHALOSCYLLIUM Gill. 

 Cephalosqillium Gill, Am. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1861, p. 407 {laticeps). 



This genus differ.s from Catnlm in the very broad head, and in the 

 power or habit of inflating the stomach when disturbed. 

 (/cf^aA.7/, head: iScyllium.) 



5. CEPHALOSCYLLIUM UMBRATILE Jordan and Fowler, new species. 

 NANUKAZAMI (SEVEN DAY SHARK); OSEIBUKA (CROWD SHARK). 



CephaloscijUium laticeps Nystrom, Kong. Svensk Vet. Ak., 1887, p. 49; Nagasaki— 

 IsHiKAWA, Prel Cat., 1897, p. 62; Tokyo (not Scyllium laticeps Dumeril, 

 which is an Australian species). 



Head 6^ in length; depth about 8; depth of head li in its length; 

 snout :2f in head; interorbital space 2; width of mouth about 2; eye 

 3i in interor])ital space; mouth 2 in head; pectoral li; depth of 

 caudal peduncle about 3 in interorbital space. 



Body elongate, more or less depressed anteriorily, tail narrow, 

 tapering downward. Head rather large, broad, its breadth a little less 

 than length; snout produced, bluntly rounded, flattened above; eye 

 small, lateral, nearer tip of snout than flrst gill-opening; mouth large, 

 rather bi-oad; teeth small, numerous, tricuspid; nostrils nearer tip of 

 snout than eye, not confluent with mouth; interorbital space broad, 

 flat; spiracles small, -behind eye, and a little below, or for space less 

 than diameter of the e3^e; gill-openings 5, posterior smallest, and a 

 little al)ovc base of pectoral. 



Scales small, rough. 



First dorsal much larger than second, behind ventrals; space between 

 it and second dorsal much greatei- than base of first dorsal; origin of 



