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amples black apical blotches less pronounced or merely fin edge 

 blackish, except caudal which colored as in adults. 



Red Sea, Arabia, South Africa, Natal, India, Andamans, Singapore, 

 East Indies, Philippines, Indo China, China, Japan, Northern Terri- 

 tory Australia, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Melanesia, 

 Micronesia, Polynesia, Hawaii. One in the Queensland Museum from 

 Darnley Island and another from Brisbane, also male and female 

 foetus. 12566 and 2567 from Piper Island, Mr. Brown. 



9051, 9052. Abuyog, Leyte. July 16, 1909. Length, 500 to 563 mm. Second 



dorsal without black apical spot. 

 7876. Cayagan, Jolo. January 8, 1909. Length, 566 mm. Of fins only first 



dorsal with black apical blotch and outer % of subcaudal lobe blackish. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 32707. Indian Archipelago. Length, 470 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 40007. Solomon Islands. Australian Museum. Length, 340 to 



342 mm. 2 examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 52643. Hawaiian Islands. Bureau of Fisheries (03872). Length, 



617 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 65783. Fakarava, Paumotus. Albatross collection. Length, 1,100 



mm'. In this example the claspers extend far beyond the ventrals, 1% in 



head, pointed, robust, strong, with broad, flat terminal lamina. Tips of paired 



fins narrowly blackish. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 51205. Hawaii. U. S. Fish Commission. Length, 890 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 51214. Hawaii. U. S. Fish Commission. Length, 770 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 62482. Hanelei Bay, Hawaii. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 



780 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 62483. Honolulu. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 680 mm. 



EULAMIA MENISORRAH (Miiller and Henle) 



Carcliarias (Prionodon) menisorrah (Valenciennes) Mullee and Henle, Syst. 

 Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 46, p. 17, 1841 (type locality : Java ; Australia ; Red 

 Sea). — BiJiEKEK, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, vol. 1,. p. 160, 1851 

 (Banka) ; vol. 3, p. 446 (Banka), p. 717 (Paukalpinang, Banka) 1852; 

 Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Plagiost.), vol. 24, p. 35, pi. 1, fig. 3, 1852 (Ba- 

 tavia and Samarang) ; Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, vol. 12, p. 218, 1858 

 (Mas); Versl. Meded. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 12, p. 30, 1861 (Sin- 

 gapore). — DuM^KiL, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 369, 1865 (type). — 

 Maktens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, vol. 1, p. 409, 1876 (Sinkawang in 

 Borneo). 



Carcharias menisorrah Gunthek, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 371, 1870 

 (Moluccas and Batavia). — Klunzingeb, "Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 

 p. 660, 1871 (Red Sea).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 716, pi. 184, fig. 1, 

 1878 (Red Sea, Malay Archipelago, Calicut). — Ogilby, Cat. Fishes Australian 

 Mus., pt. 1, p. 2, 1888 (Calicut, tji)e of Carcharias malabaricus Day; Port 

 Moresby, New Guinea) ; Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, ser. 2, vol. 3, 

 p. 1768, 1888 (south coast of New Guinea ) .—Beusina, Glasnik Naravosl. 

 Druztva, vol. 3, p. 224, 1888 (Red Sea).— Day, Fauna British India, Fishes, 

 vol. 1, p. 16, 1889.— BoxjLENGEB, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 243, 1889 (Mus- 

 cat). — ZuGMAYER, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., math.-phys. Kl., vol. 26, p. 8, 1913 

 (Mekran and Oman). — Clark, Rep. Sci. Res. Scotia, Scot. Nat. Antarct. 

 Exped., vol. 4, p. 398, fig., 1915 (St. Pauls Rocks).— Boeodin, Bull. Vander- 

 bilt Marine Mus., vol. 1, art. 2, p. 42, 1930 (Red Sea). 



