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DuMERiL, Hist. Nat. Elasmobi-., vol. 1, p. 331, 1865 (compiled). — Kneb, Reise 



Novara, Fisclie, p. 413, 1865 (Ceylon). 

 Chiloscyllium indicum var. phymatodes GIInther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mas., vol. 8, 



p. 413, 1870 (type; Pinang). 

 Squalus candatus Gray, Cat. Fish. Gronow, p. 8, 1854 (type locality: In mari 



Indico). 



Depth 9 to 934 to subcaudal origin ; head 4% to 7, width li/4 to II/3. 

 Snout 2 to 2l^ in head, obtusely pointed as seen from above ; eye 6 to 

 7y2, 3 to 3% in snout, 3 in interorbital, depth 1% its length; dentary 

 width 3 to 3% in head, with short labial folds at each angle and 

 broad lower lip free across symphysis; teeth in 30 rows in each jaw, 

 cusps rather broadly triangular, edges entire; nostrils slightly before 

 middle in snout length, cirri equal eye; interorbital 2% to 2% in 

 head, depressed. Gill openings narrow, last widest, fourth close 

 before fifth and second to fifth above pectoral base. Spiracle 1% in 

 eye, opposite its hind edge and close below. 



Scales rather narrowly triangular, small, each with single median 

 keel. Single median ridge on back and less developed one each side 

 above flank. 



First dorsal begins behind ventral base, length I14 to 1% in head, 

 hind lobe right angle; second dorsal origin nearer anal origin than 

 ventral origin, length IV5 to 1% in head, hind lobe right angle; anal 

 height 5 to 5% its length which li/^ to 1% in subcaudal lobe or 1% 

 to 1% in head ; least depth of caudal peduncle 4^4 ; subcaudal height 

 5 to 614 in its length, little higher posteriorly, length equals head 

 or head to second gill opening; pectoral 1 to 1% in head, width 1% 

 to 1% its length; ventral length 1% to 1^ in head, ends reach back 

 opposite first third of first dorsal base or in very young opposite first 

 dorsal origin. 



Pale brown generally. Eleven or 12 broad transverse dark brown 

 bands or saddles on head and trunk, wider than pale interspaces and 

 on tail narrower than pale interspaces. Each dark band also with 

 few pale spots besides obscure darker ones. Dorsals dark brown 

 with few whitish spots. Upper surfaces of paired fins pale, with 

 few dark spots. In young small white spots, more contrasted, and 

 along edges of fin. 



Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Cape of Good Hope, India, Ceylon, Pinang, 

 Singapore, East Indies, Philippines, Indo China, China, Formosa, 

 Melanesia. 



U.S.N.M. No. 12623. No locality. British Museum. Length, 175 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 40032. China Seas. Australian Museum. Length, 182 to 217 mm. 



Three examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 75953. "Japan?" (probably China?). P. L. Jouy. Length, 195 



to 398 mm. Two examples. 



