IjNO. 1324. ELASMOBRANCIIIA TE FISHES— JORDAN AND FO WLER. 605 



[middle of its ])aso; caudal not l)ent up, upper lobe low, straight, and 

 lower lobe long, deeper than upper and with a notch near its tip. 

 Back with a low median keel. 



Color in alcohol pale brown above, whitish beneath, and with 

 thirteen broad deep l)rown cro,ss-l)ar8 above, l)etween which on median 

 line of back a deep brown spot; sides of body and ])road cross-bars 

 :with a number of light spots, of more or less irregular size, and some 

 of those on sides of abdomen greatly enlarged. 



Head with a number of pores. 

 ! Length 26i inches. 



This description from a male from Formosa, loaned us bv Dr. Shin- 

 nosuke Matsu))ara. 



' Coasts of China and Formosa, recorded once from Nagasaki by 

 Gunther. 



Fig. 2.— CHILOSfYI^UUM INPICITM. 



The synonym}' above given is from (xiinther; we have no means of 

 valuing the nominal species included ))y Gunther under the name of 

 Ghiloscyllium, indlcmn. 



7. ORECTOLOBUS Bonaparte. 



Orectolohiii Bonaparte, Selach., 1836, p. 11 {barbatus). 

 Cros-sor/iimw MtiLLER and Henle, Plagiost., 1837, p. 21 {barbatus). 



Spiracle a wide oblique slit behind and below the e3''e; nasal and 

 buccal cavities confluent. Head broad, flat, the snout very obtuse; 

 mouth wide, partly anterior, a free nasal cirrus; sides of head with 

 numerous skinny flaps; chin with or without barbels. Lips well devel- 

 oped. Anterior teeth rather large, long, and slender, without lateral 

 lobes; lateral teeth smaller, tricuspid in few series; last two gill-open- 

 ings close together. First dorsal behind ventrals, the second before 

 anal, which is very close to caudal. Tail short, 



{opsKTog^ stretched out; X6/3og, lobe). 

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