FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 29 



Depth 7 to subcaudal origin; head 5^3- Snout 2% in head; eye 

 3%, 1% in snout; preoral 2%, front tip of mandible slightly in ad- 

 vance of front eye edge, short upper and lower labial folds about 

 equal half pupil diameter; nostril little nearer eye than snout tip; 

 interorbital but little elevated. Gill openings graduated smaller 

 from first, which equals half of eye and last above pectoral base. 

 Spiracle close behind eye, less than pupil. 



Long caudal peduncle with enlarged denticles on its lower as well 

 as its upper median surface, latter extending whole length of upper 

 caudal edge. 



First dorsal inserted before middle of body, over hind basal ventral 

 edge, its front edge 1% in head ; second dorsal origin over last third 

 in anal length, front edge of fin 1% in head; anal origin midway 

 between ventral and subcaudal origins; caudal 3% in rest of body, 

 subcaudal about equally high as anal, and notched at last % its 

 length ; pectoral 1% in head, deep as long, hind edge nearly truncate 

 and reaching halfway to ventral ; ventral length 1^4 in head ; clasper 

 moderate, pointed. 



Body with brownish cross bands, which cross upper half of body 

 and tail and interspersed with lighter brown areas on light gray 

 ground color. No black margins to fins. Length, 540 mm. (Whit- 



ley.) 



New South Wales. Known from the type and two other specimens 

 in the Australian Museum. 



Genus PARMATURUS Garman 



Parmaturus Garman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 46, p. 203, 1906. (Type, Par- 

 maturus pilosus Garmau, designated by Jordan, Genera of Fishes, pt. 4, 

 p. 518, 1920.) 



Body rounded, nearly long as tail. Head wide. Snout short, thick, 

 very vascular. Eye large. Nostrils large, without grooves to mouth ; 

 front valve short, widely separated across internarial space, without 

 cirrus; hind valve short. Upper caudal edge with modified scales, 

 somewhat as in Galeus, otherwise appearance more like Scyliorhinus. 

 Dorsals small, first above ventrals, second above anal. 



PARMATURUS PILOSUS Garman 



Parmaturus pilosus Garman, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 46, p. 204, 1906 (type 

 locality: lat. 34° 59' N., long. 139" 31' E., in 430 fathoms, Japan).— Regan, 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 1, p. 464, 1908 (reference, note). — Garman, 

 Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 89, pi. 8, figs. 1-5, 1913 (type).— 

 Fowler, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 485, 1930 (reference). 



Depth 6 to subcaudal origin; head 4%, width 1%. Snout 2% in 

 head; orbit 3%, I14 in snout; preoral equals snout; mouth width 2 

 in head, length 2^^ its width ; labial folds short, equal, around mouth 



