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notched, narrow lower teeth nearly erect on broad bases; nostrils 

 nearly midway in preoral. 



First dorsal origin short space behind inner hind pectoral angle; 

 second dorsal opposite, long as but lower than anal, extended in long 

 lobe posteriorly; pectoral falciform, upper margin 5 times long as 

 lower. 



Deep black spot at lower side end of pectoral. End of subcaudal 

 with deep black spot. No spot on first dorsal. (Giinther.) 



Ked Sea, Seychelles, India. This species is imperfectly known. 

 Giinther's specimen, described above is estimated by Day to have been 

 1,220 mm. long and Dumeril's 2 types of Carcharlas (Prionodon) 

 hleekeri 310 and 780 mm. 



The brief notice of the original account of this species is as follows : 



Head very much depressed. No spiracles. A lunulated emargina- 

 tion above and another beneath the tail. Caudal fin undulated above. 

 Pectorals falciform, very narrow, situated under 2 last gill openings. 

 Black spot at end of pectorals, another at summit of second dorsal 

 and third at end of subcaudal. Inhabits Terre de Witt, New 

 Holland. 



EULAMIA DUSSUMIERI (Muller and Henle) 



CarcJiarias (Prionodon) dussumieri (Valenciennes) MiiLLER and Henle, Syst. 

 Beschr. Plagiostonien, p. 47, pi. 19, fig. 8, 1841 (type locality: China; Bom- 

 bay; Pondicherry ) . — Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, p. 194, 1846 (China 

 Sea, Canton). — Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Bengal), vol. 25, p. 80, 

 1853 (reference).— DuMf:Rii-, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 370, 1865 (types, 

 Bombay, Pondicherry). 

 Carcharias dussumieri GiJNTHER, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 367, 1870 

 (Batavia).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 714, pi. 187, fig. 2, 1878 (India, 

 Malay Archipelago, Malabar), — Ogxlby, Cat. Fishes, Australian Mus., pt. 1, 

 p. 2, 1888 (Salangore, Straits Settlements). — Day, Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, 

 vol. 1, p. 13, 1889.— Bartlett, Sarawak Gaz., ,vol. 26, No. 366, p. 133, 1896 

 (Moratabas).— VoLz, Nat. Tijdschr. Nederland, Indie, vol. 66, p. 237, 1907 

 (Padang). — Southwell, Ceylon Administr. Rep. 1912-13, p. E49. — Zuo- 

 MAYEB, Abh. Bayer, Akad. Wiss., math.-phys. Kl., vol. 26, p. 8, 1913 

 (Mekran). — Vincigueera, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor, Nat. Genova, ser. 3, vol. 10 p. 

 627, 1926 ( Sarawak ) . — Tirant, Service Oc^anogr. peches Indo-Chine, 6^ note, 

 p. 61, 1929 ( Cochinchina ) . — Chevey, Inst. Oc^anogr. Indochine, 19"* note, 

 p. 6, 1932 (Indochina).— Herre, Journ. Pan-Pac. Res. Inst., vol. 8, no. 4, 

 p. 6, 1933 (Dumaguete) ; Fish. Herre PhUippine Exped., 1931, p. 12, 1934 

 (Dumaguete). 

 Squalus {Carcharinus) dussumieri Gray, List fish British Museum, p. 47, 1851 



(reference). 

 Pionodon dussumieri Knee, Reise Novara, Fische, p. 414, 1865 (Java). 

 Carcharinus dussumieri Gasman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 137, 1913 

 (China, India, East Indies). — Barnard, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 21, 

 pt. 2, p. 1012, 1927 (copied). 

 Eulamia dussumieri FowLEai, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1925, p. 190 

 (Delagoa Bay) ; Hong Kong Nat., vol. 1, p. 82, fig. 10, 1930 (China) ; Proc. 



