FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 45 



Catulus turgeri Jordan and Snydee, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 38 (128), 

 1901 (Nagasaki). 



Halaelurus 'biirgeri Jordan and Fowler, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 26, p. 601, 

 1903 (Nagasaki; Misaki). — Garman, JVIem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 83, 

 1913 (Japan; East Indies).— Fowlek, Proc. 4tli (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., 

 Java, p. 485, 1930 (China; Japan). — Schmidt, Trans. Pacific Comm. Acad. 

 Sci. U.S.S.R., vol. 11, p. 4, 1931 (Nagasaki). 



ScyUorhinus buergeri Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 1, p. 461, 1908 

 (Japan, Amboyna). 



Depth 7% to 8% to subcaudal origin; head 5% to 5%, width 1^^ 

 to lYg. Snout 2^3 to 2% in head, broad, obtuse; eye 4 to 4i/^, long 

 narrow slit, 1% to 1% in snout, 2 to 2% in interorbital ; dentary 

 width 1% in head, with short labial fold around each mouth angle 

 and short space along lower jaw; teeth in 35 to 45 rows in jaws, with 

 narrow triangular median cusp and 1 or 2 small cusps at each side 

 basally, edges of all entire; nostrils much nearer mouth than snout 

 tip, front valves short and wide, width of each li^ in eye; internarial 

 width 1% in front valve width; hind nasal valves much narrower than 

 front and neither reaching mouth ; interorbital 2 to 2% in head, de- 

 pressed. Gill openings small, last smallest, third to fifth above pec- 

 toral. Spiracle small, close behind eye and opposite lower part of eye. 



Scales rather rough, tricuspid, with median keel and 2 others each 

 side, outermost of which on each smaller lateral cusp. 



First dorsal origin behind ventral bases, length ly^, to II/2 in head ; 

 second dorsal origin begins behind anal base, length 2 to 2i/io in 

 head; anal nearer subcaudal origin than ventral origins, length II/2 

 to 1% in head; subcaudal length equals head to third gill opening, 

 height 31/2 to 41/4 in its length ; least depth of caudal peduncle 4 to 

 414 in head; pectoral 1 to 1%, width I14 to 1% its length; ventral 

 1^ to ly^ in head. 



Kufous-brown on back, whitish below. Nine deep rufous blotches 

 or saddles on back, alternating irregularly along sides with some 

 smaller similar-colored blotches. All these blotches marked with few 

 irregular pale spots or blotches. Vertical fins clouded with little 

 darker. Paired fins clouded little darker than lower surfaces. 



India, East Indies, Philippines, China, Formosa, Japan. 



U.S.N.M. No. 22558. Muiramisaki, Japan. Japanese Government. Length, 



350 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 48197. Otaru. S. Nozana. Length, 335 mm. 



HALAELURUS NATALENSIS (Regan) 



ScylUum natalense Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 14, p. 128, 1904 



(type locality: Natal). 

 ScyUorhinus natalensis Regan, Ann. Natal Gov. Mus., vol. 1, p. 241, 1908 (Bird 



Island). — Gilchrist and Thompson, Ann. Durban Mus., vol. 1, pt. 3, p. 283, 



1916 (references). — Thompson, Marine Biol. Surv. South Africa, Spec. Rep. 



3, p. 44, 1922 (off Natal, 24 to 194 f a tlioras).— Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Philadelphia, vol. 86, p. 405, 1934 (Natal) ; vol. 87, p. 361, 1935 (Durban). 



