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small, diameter equals pupil diameter, close behind and below eye. 



Scales minute, tricuspid or anchor-shaped, except on throat and 

 belly where granular. 



Dorsals subequal, first inserted just before hind basal end of ven- 

 tral, front edge 2 in head; second dorsal inserted before hind basal 

 end of anal, front edge 2i/4 in head ; anal base little larger than either 

 dorsal base, I/2 to % in space to subcaudal ; caudal 3I/3 in rest of body, 

 subcaudal nearly half caudal length or its front edge 1% in head 

 and notch before last fourth in caudal length; pectoral about ll^ 

 in head, width % length ; ventral length 11/2, hind edge very oblique. 



Very numerous well-defined alternate cross bands of light and 

 very dark brown on upper half of body, not passing to ventral sur- 

 face; cross bands rather irregular in width, dark ones usually nar- 

 rowest, not broken up into spots but as continuous stripes and inter- 

 vening light cross bands unspotted. Length, 280 mm. (Alcock.) 



Malabar coast. 



HALAELURUS HISPIDUS (Alcock) 



Scyllium hispidum Alcock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. S, p. 21, 1891 (type 

 locality: Andaman Islands, in 188 to 200 fathoms) ; Illustr. Zool. Investi- 

 gator, pi. 8, figs. 3-3a, 1892 ; Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 65, pt. 2, p. 310. 

 1896 (reference) ; Cat. Deep Sea Fishes Indian Mus., p. 15, 1899 (Andaman 

 Sea, 188 to 419 fathoms). 



Scylliorhimis hisj)idus Brauee, Deutsch. Tiefsee Exped., Valdivia, vol. 5, Tiefsee- 

 fische, p. 7 (366), 1906 (Andaman Sea, East African coast, 463 to 628 

 meters). 



Scyliorhinus Mspidus Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 1, p. 460, 1908 

 (Indian Ocean). 



Halaelurus hispidus Gaeman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 85, 1913 (An- 

 daman Sea). 



Depth 8% to subcaudal origin; head 4%, width li^. Snout 21/5 

 in head; eye 4, 1% in snout, 1% in interorbital ; mouth large, cres- 

 centic, short labial fold only at angle; teeth in broad bands in jaws, 

 small, mostly tricuspid, sometimes quincuspid; middle cusp much 

 largest; nasal valves separated by interval nearly equal to nostril 

 diameter, each with very short cirrus; preoral length half snout 

 width and almost twice internarial. Gill openings equidistant, last 

 2 above pectoral base. Spiracle very small, diameter less than half 

 pupil, close behind and below eye. 



Scales minute, stony, tricuspid. 



First dorsal inserted over last basal fourth of ventral, front edge 

 1% in head; second dorsal inserted opposite middle in anal length, 

 front edge 2 in head; anal length 1, front edge 2; caudal 2I/4 in 

 rest of body, subcaudal deep as anal, notch little behind last fourth ; 

 pectoral reaches 1% to ventral, II4 in head; ventral length II/2. 



Dull stone gray, rather lighter ventrally. Length, 280 mm. 

 (Alcock). 



Off East Africa and Andaman Islands. 



