FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND xVDJACENT SEAS 65 



Scylliorhinus eduardsH Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, 

 p. 283, 1916 (references). — Baenard, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 21, 

 pt. 1, p. 41, 1925 (Saldanha, Table and False Bays, Agulhas Bank). 



Haploblepharus edicardsH Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 102, 

 1913 (South Africa). 



ScyUluDi pictum Muli^r and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, pp. 4, 189, 

 1841 (type locality: Cape of Good Hope). 



Depth 71/^ to subcaudal origin; head 7, rather broad, depressed. 

 Snout 2% in head ; orbit 5, 2l^ in snout, narrowly elongate ; preoral 

 length half mouth Avidth; mouth length Vs its width, with moderate 

 labial folds around angles; teeth tricuspid, median cusp twice long 

 as outer; nostrils small, nearer mouth than snout tip, nasoral groove 

 deep to mouth; front nasal valves without cirri, reach mouth, form 

 broad angular lip with narrow median presymphyseal attachment; 

 interorbital level. Gill openings equidistant. 



Scales tricarinate, with strong median cusp and short lateral cusp 

 each side. 



First dorsal origin behind basal ventral end, front edge II/3 in 

 head ; second dorsal origin opposite hind basal anal edge, front edge 

 114 ii^ head ; anal length 1, front edge 1% ; caudal 34^ in rest of body, 

 subcaudal trifle lower than anal, notch little before last fourth in 

 caudal length; pectoral long as head, reaches slightly over halfway 

 to ventral, width 1% its length; ventral length nearly equals head; 

 claspers attenuate. 



Light j^ellowish brown, with broad, irregular, transverse darker 

 bands on back, small brown reticulations or small yellowish spots 

 on back and fins. Band crosses hind part of orbit, another last gill 

 slit, third at pectoral ends, one through each dorsal and caudal 

 peduncle. Below lighter, uniform. Length, 484 mm. ( Midler and 

 Henle; Garman.) 



South Africa. Barnard gives its length up to 520 mm. 



Genus PROSCYLLIUM Hilgendorf 



ProscyUiiiin Hilgendorf. Sitz. Ber. Naturf. Freuude Berlin, 1904, p. 39. (Type, 

 Sci/llium habereri Hilgendorf, monotypic.) 



Head elongate. Snout long. Mouth large. Front nasal valves 

 separate from one another and from mouth. Dorsals small, imier 

 angle produced, first dorsal in part forward of ventrals. Anal long, 

 remote from subcaudal. Pectorals small. 



An imperfectly known genus, thought by Garman to approach 

 Galeus rather than Scyliorhinus. 



PROSCYLLIUM HABERERI (Hilgendorf) 



Scyllium habereri Hilgendorf, Sitz. Ber. Nalurf- Fi'eunde Berlin, 1904, p. 39 

 (type locality: Takao, Formosa), 



