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fins two, the first l)ehind the front of ventrals. Anal far behind 

 second dorsal, close to caudal. East Indies. 



(jf/Aog-, lip; ScylUuin, a related genus of sharks.) 



6. CHILOSCYLLIUM INDICUM (Gmelin). 



Sqnalits sp. Gkonow, Mus. Ich., 1, p. (H, No. 133; India (from a specimen in 



which the anal Ihi was cutaway). 

 ,s</>(((his iudlriis (Imklin, 8yst. Nat., I, 17HS, \>. 1503 (after (ironow). 

 Chiloftn/lliuin. indieniii. Gonthek, Oat. Fish, VIII, 1870, p. 411; China, Japan,:! 



India, Cape 8eas, Java, Ceylon, etc. (and of most recent authors). — Jordan ' 



and EvEKMANN, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 1902; Formosa. 

 Sqan/ii>< groiiovianns LACEPiiDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., I, 1798, p. 280, pi. xi, fij;. I 



(after Gronow). 

 Squdle dmleU' Lacevkve, Hist. Nat. Poiss., I, 1798, p. 281, pi. xi, fig. 1. 

 Sgn(dui< tiihervuliitns Bhovu and i^CHm:u)FAi, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 137. 

 Si/uchiviiUK inberculdlHs iiiu., Am. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1861, p. 408. 

 ScyUium 2il<igioKum Bennett, Life of Raffles, 1830, p. 694. 

 ChUofiqjUium plagiomm Muller and Henle, Plagiost., 1837, p. 17. — Dumeril, 



Elasmobr., 1870, p. 328 (and of various authors). 

 Scyllium ornatum Gray, Ind. Zool., Ill, 1830-35, pi. c, fig. 1; India. I 



ChUoKcgUium griseum MIjller and Henle, Plagiost., 1837, p. 19. 

 Clillonn/Hmvi vKirgaritiferum Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk, I, 1851, p. 243. 

 Sciilliiim h(isfic/li BhBBKER, Verh. Bat. Gen., XXIV, 1852, Plagiost., p. 19. 

 Scylli ion phuiixtlodt'ii Bleeker, Verli. Bat. Gen. Plagiost., p. 21. 

 Sijiudas randdtii^i Gronow, Syst., Ed. Gray, 1854, p. 8. 



Head 8 in leng-th; depth 18; snout 2i in head; interorhital space 2|; 

 width of head li in its length; eye 8 in interorhital space; base of pec- 

 toral 2^ in head; base of anal If. 



liod}'^ very elongate, slender, tail long and tapering. Head long, 

 depressed, broadly rounded above, flattened below; snout broadly 

 depressed, produced, and rounded above so that lateral profile isi 

 bluntly pointed; eyes small, high, lateral, rather far apart, in middle' 

 of length of head; mouth very broad, transversely straight, nearer 

 eye than tip of snout; mandible with a broad, undivided flap, pos- 

 terior edge undulated; teeth pointed, with a basal cusp on each side, ; 

 numerous, rathei' small; nostrils large, confluent with corners of 

 mouth, and each with a pointed barbel; interorhital space elevated a 

 little, very broad, flattened. Spiracles very large, below and behindi 

 eye. Gill-openings about ciiual, the posterior above root of pectoral, \ 

 and last two ver}^ close together. 



Scales rather large and coarse. 



Origin of first dorsal a little nearer tip of snout than origin of lower, 

 caudal lobe, similar to second dorsal, and only a trifle larger, space j 

 between two fins al)out equal to head; anal short, far behind second 

 dorsal and only separated from caudal by a deep notch; pectorals 

 broad, a little shorter than head, and nearer the tip of snout than origin 

 of ventrals; ventrals before first dorsal, their tips reaching nearly to 



