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Depth Q% to siibcaiidal origin; head 4%, width 1%. Snout 2i/4 

 in head, obtusely rounded, bhmt; eye 7i/^, 3i/4 in snout, about 4% in 

 interorbital ; mouth width 1% ii^ head, gape length half its width or 

 114 in preoral length; teeth in 25 to 27 rows in jaws, serrated, tri- 

 angular, upper slightly inclined and notched on outer edge, narrower 

 lower erect, indented on outer edge and median teeth in both jaws 

 small and with entire edges; nostrils nearer mouth than snout end, 

 internarial little greater than preoral or 1% in snout; interorbital 

 rather low. Gill openings equidistant, gradually smaller to last, of 

 which 2 above pectoral. 



First dorsal origin close behind inner pectoral angle, front fin edge 

 11/^ in head; second dorsal length 2I/3, origin little forward of anal 

 origin; anal length 2%; pectoral li/g, width 2% its length which 1% 

 to ventral; ventral length 2% in head; caudal 2% in rest of body, 

 subcaudal 2^ in caudal. 



Grayish yellow, lighter below, tips and hind fin edges pure white. 

 (Riippell; Garman.) 



Red Sea, East Indies. Eiippell says the body dimensions are like 

 those of Carcharias melanopterus. Dumeril gives 940 mm. as the 

 length of a specimen in the Paris Museum. The species seems to be 

 distinctive in the pure-white borders to its fins. 



EULAMIA ELLIOTI (Day) 



Carcharias eUioii Day, FLshos of India, pt. 4, p. 716. pi. 189, fig. 2, 1878 (type 

 locality: Kurracliec) ; Fa'.ina British India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 15, 1888 

 (copied). — BouLENGEU, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1889, p. 135 (Muscat). — 

 ZuGMAYER, Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., math.-phys. KL, vol. 26, p. 8, 1913 

 (Mekran and Oman). 



Carcharinus ellioti Garman, I\Iem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 142, 1913 

 (India). 



Carcharias murrayl Gunther. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. 11, p. 137, fig. 

 1883 (toeth) (type locality: Kurrachee.) — Mukeay, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 ser. .5, vol. 13, p. 389, 1884 (jaws from Kutch ) .— D.\y, Fishes of India, 

 Supp). p. 809, 1889 (Kurrachee) ; Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 1, p. 16, 

 1889.— BouLENGEE, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1889', p. 24.5 (Muscat).— Zugmayp:r. 

 Abh. Bayer, Akad. Wiss., math.-phys. KL, vol. 26, p. 8, 1913 (Mekran and 

 Oman). 



Depth 514 to subcaudal origin ; head 5i/4, width IVg- Snout 3 in 

 head, obtusely rounded; eye 9, 3 in snout, 6^/4 in interorbital; mouth 

 width 2 in head, length of gape 1% its width, well developed upper 

 labial groove, slight lower one; teeth 24 to 26 rows above, 30 to 34 

 below, upper nearly triangular without notch or basal enlargement 

 though coarsely serrated, lower obliquely erect, awllike, smaller and 

 more triangular at mouth angle; awl-shaped teeth with cusp either 

 side of base, below which outer edge with few serrations; nostrils 

 nearer mouth than snout end, internarial about 1% in preoral length 



