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more or less regular in size, also some on sides of abdomen enlarged. 

 Length, 642 mm. (Jordan and Fowler.) 



Cape Colony, Madagascar, India, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, 

 Pinang, Singapore, East Indies, Siam, Philippines, China, Formosa, 

 Japan. ChiloscylUwm caeTuleopunctatUTn based on an example 665 

 mm., was thought to differ chiefly in its numerous small blue spots. 

 Garman has shown that variation in color is considerable. His 

 largest example was 750 mm. 



HEMISCYLLIUM GRISEUM (Muller and Henle) 



ChlloscylUum griseum Muixee and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 19, 

 1841 (type locality: Japan ) .—Gray, List fish Brit. Mus., p. 35, 1851 

 ("India, Java" ) .— Dum]£kil, Rev. Mag. Zool., 1853, p. 124 (sea of the In- 

 dies).— Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loudon, 1908, p. 360, pi. 11, fig. 1, pi. 13, fig. 

 3 (young) (Kurrachee, Moluccas, Vizagapatam, Madras, Malabar, Pinang, 

 Malay Peninsula, type of Chiloscyllium hasseltii Bleekee). — PetxejGkin, 

 Ann. Mus. Zool. Univ. Napoli, new ser., vol. 3, No. 27, p. 3, 1912 (Red Sea.) — 

 Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 64, 1913 (South Africa, India, 

 Japan). — Raj, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 10, pp. 318-319, 1914 (egg case). — 

 Southwell and Prashad, Rec. Indian Mus., vol. 16, pp. 215, 240, 1919 (egg 

 case).— Fowler, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 33, p. 100, 1928 (Bom- 

 bay) ; Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 17, 1928 (note on ThioUiere). — Pillay. 

 Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 33, p. 350, 1929 (Travancore). — Fowler, 

 Hong Kong Nat., vol. 1, p. 33, 1930 (China) ; Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. 

 Congr., Java, p. 487, 1930 (Indian Ocean material) ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, vol. 87, p. 89, 1935 (Bangkok) ; vol. 89, p. 128, 1937 (Rayong) ; 

 List Fish. Malaya, p. 6, 1938 (reference). 



TScyUorhinus unicolor Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom., Paris, 1816, p. 121 (name 

 only). 



ScyUiuni griseum Van Hasselt, Bull. Sci. Nat. Ferussac, vol. 2, p. 89, 1824 

 (Java) (name only). 



Chiloscyllium plagiosiim (not Bennett) MIIller and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagi- 

 ostomen, p. 18, 1841 (part). — Cantor, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, 

 p. 1374 (part), 1849. — Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Plagiost.), vol. 

 24, p. 17, 1852 (Batavia and Samarang). — Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., 

 vol. 1, p. 328, 1865 (part). 



Chiloscyllium. obscurum Gray, List fish British Museum, p. 25, 1851 (type lo- 

 cality: Moluccas) (no description). 



Chiloscyllium indicum var. obscw'a Gunther, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, 

 p. 413, 1870 (Moluccas; type of Chiloscyllium hasseltii Bleeker; Vizaga- 

 patam). 



Chiloscyllium indicum var. ohscurum Ogilby, Cat. Fishes Australian Mus., pt. 

 1, p. 8, 1888 (Malabar). 



Chiloscyllium hasseltii Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Plagiost.), vol. 24, 

 pp. 14, 19, 1852 (type locality: Batavia) ; Versl. Meded. Akad. Wet. Amster- 

 dam, vol. 12, p. 30, 1861 (Singapore). 



Chiloscyllium punctatum (part) Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Plagiost.), 

 vol. 24, p. 22, 1852 (Batavia). 



Chiloscyllium indicum (not Gmelin) Day, Fishes of India, pt. 6, p. 726, pi. 188, 

 fig. 3, 1878 (India, Malay Archipelago) ; Fauna British India, vol. 1, p. 34, 

 fig. 14, 1889.— VoLz, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, vol. 66, p. 238, 1907 

 (Siboga, Priaman, Padang, Benkulen). 



