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Back clear gray-brown. Belly yellowish white. On tail colors 

 sharply contrasted. Row of whitish points along lateral line. Anal 

 with brownish basal streak. Length, 660 nun. (Engelhardt.) 



Japan. Described from 5 examples in the Miinich Museum. 



GALEUS SAUTERI (Jordan and Richardson) 



Pristiurus sauteri Jordan and Richardson, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 4, p. 160, 

 pi. 63, fig. 1, 1909 (type locality: Takao, Formosa). — Gaeman, Mem. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 94, 1913 (Formosa). 



Oaleus sauteri Fowlee, Proc. 4tli (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 485, 1930 

 (reference). 



Depth 6^2 to subcaudal origin ; head 4%. Snout 21^ in head ; eye 

 4l^, 2 in snout; mouth width slightly greater than snout length, about 

 equals interorbital ; teeth with long median cusp, each side another 

 cusp about half as long and each short cusp with or without 1 or 2 

 rudimentary basal cusps; nostril width equals internarial, equals 

 twice space from inner nasal angle and mouth; interorbital little 

 elevated. Gill openings equidistant, above pectoral base. Spiracle 

 directly behind eye, distant slightly less their diameter. 



Scales minute, with strong central cusp with median keel, small 

 rudimentary cusp each side. Upper tail edge with low keel begins 

 little less than 2 eye diameters behind second dorsal and extends back 

 to merge into upper caudal lobe; keel armed each side with row of 

 enlarged scales, between which 4 rows of ordinary scales. 



First dorsal origin over last third of ventral length, front fin edge 

 2 in head ; second dorsal origin over middle of anal length, front fin 

 edge 2 in head; anal length 1%, front fin edge 2%, lower than sub- 

 caudal ; caudal length 2% in rest of body, subcaudal with front edge 

 iy2 in edge with notch before last fourth in its length; pectoral 

 reaches 1% to ventral, width 1% its length which li^ in head; ventral 

 length li/io 5 claspers rather robust. 



Uniform brownish on back and upper part of sides, paler below. 

 Dorsals black on upper front half, white on posterior third. Upper 

 caudal lobe with broad blackish margin. Pectorals dark brownish 

 anteriorly above, whitish behind and on free margin. Ventrals and 

 anal with rather indistinct pale margins. Length, 305 to 355 mm. 

 (Jordan and Richardson.) 



Formosa. Described from 6 specimens in the Carnegie Museum. 



Subgenus Figaro Whitley 



GALEUS BOARDMANI (Whitley) 



Pristiurus (Figaro) ioardmani Whitley, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 16, No. 4, 

 p. 238, pi. 18, fig. 3, 1028 (type locality: Off Montague Island, New South 

 Wales). 



Figaro hoardmani Whitley, Australian Zoologist, vol. 5, p. 354, 1929 (ref- 

 erence) ; Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 10, pt. 4, p. 198, 1934. (reference). 



