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jaw and little less on upper; teeth small, in example 586 mm. long, 

 29 rows above, 27 below, several rows fmictional, usually with strong 

 hooked median cusp with denticle each side; nostrils small, front 

 valves reaching lip, separated by very broad preoral attachment, 

 cirrus half long as valve, hind valve fold on outer side of nasoral 

 groove; interorbital 1% in head, nearly level. Last 2 gill openings 

 together and close above pectoral base, others equidistant. 



Scales small, with quadrangular exposure, with 3 to 9 scales or 

 smooth hinder edges notched by keels or entire. 



First dorsal inserted over middle of ventral base, front edge equals 

 head; front edge of second dorsal 1%; anal origin opposite first % 

 of second dorsal base, front edge IVs in head ; pectoral 21^ to ventral 

 origin, width II/3 its length which equals head; ventral length ll^; 

 caudal 3 in rest of body, front and subcaudal edge equals head. 



Dark brown above, with minute black dots. Lower surface brown- 

 ish white. Length, 635 mm. (Giinther; Garman.) 



Zanzibar, Seychelles. 



NEBRIUS FERRUGINEUS (Lesson) 



ScylUum ferrugineum Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool., vol. 2, pt. 1, p. 95, 1830 (type 

 locality: Port Praslin, New Ireland; Offack Bay, Waigiu). — Bleeker, Verb. 

 Batay. Genootsch. (Plagiost.), vol. 24, p. 14, 1852 (reference). 



Oinglymostoma ferrvgineiim Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1908, p. 351 (com- 

 piled ) .—Gabman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 56, 1913 (India; Bast 

 Indies). — Fowler, Mem. Bishop Miis., vol. 10, p. IS, 1928 (compiled) ; Proc. 

 4tli (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 486, 1930 (reference) ; Mem. Bishop 

 Mus., vol. 11, no. 5, p. 314, 1931 (reference). — Chevey, Inst. Oceanogr. Indo 

 Chine, 19* note, p. 5, 1932 (Poulo Condore). — Fowlee, Mem. Bishop Mus., 

 vol. 11, no. 6, p. 385, 1934 (Port Moresby, New Guinea) ; List Fish. Malaya, 

 p. 6, 1938 (reference). 



Ginghjmosioma- concolor (not Riippell) MtrLLEE and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Pla- 

 giostomen, p. 22, pi. 6, 1841 (India; Red Sea). — Bleeker, Verh. Batav. 

 Genootsch. (Bengal), vol. 25, p. 80, 1853 (reference). — Martens, Preuss. 

 Exped. Ost Asien, vol. 1, p. 409, 1876 (Singapore).— Macleay, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. New South Wales, vol. 7, p. 597, 1883 (New Guinea ) .—Ogilbt, Cat. 

 Fishes Australian Mus., pt. 1, p. 7, 1888 (Purves Sound, Solomons). — Sau- 

 VAGE, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., p. 511, 1891 (reference). 



Ginglymostoma millleri GItnther, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 408, 1870 

 (type locality: India) (on Miiller and Henle). — Klunzinger, Verh. zool.- 

 bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, p. 670, 1871 (Red Sea ) .— Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godef- 

 froy, no. 6, p. 18, 1877 ( Samoa ) .—Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 725, 1878 

 (India).— Bbusina, Glasnik Naravosl. Druztva, vol. 3, p. 226, 1888 (Red 

 Sea). — Day, Fauna British India, vol. 1, p. 33, 1889. — Gunther, Journ. Mus. 

 Godeffroy, pt. 17, p. 487, 1910 (Samoa). — Pearson, Ceylon Administr. Rep., 

 1912-13, p. E7. — TiBANT, Service Oceanogr. Peches Indo-Chine, 6* note p. 65, 

 1929 (Poulo Condar; Cholon). 



Soymnus porosus (Ehrenberg) Klunzinger, "Verh. zool. -hot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 

 p. 670, 1871 (name in synonymy). — Hilgendorf, Symbol. Physic. Hemprich- 

 Ehrenberg, p. 8, pi. 6, fig. 3, 1899 (type locality: "Mari rubro"). 



