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which 2% in head; interorbital II/3, convexly elevated. First gill 

 opening largest, others equidistant, last 2 smallest and over pectoral. 



First dorsal inserted little behind inner pectoral angles, front edge 

 equals head; second dorsal origin opposite anal origin, front fin 

 edge 11/5; front anal edge li/4; ventral length 11/3; caudal 4% in 

 rest of body, subcaudal 2% its length; pectoral 41/2 in body to sub- 

 caudal origin, width half its length which reaches 1% to ventral 

 origin. 



Gray superiorly, becoming nearly white beneath. Length, 1,830 

 mm. (Day.) 



Arabia, India. Though Day gives caudal 3% in the total length 

 his figure shows 5%. 



EULAMLA. TEMMINCKII (Muller and Henle) 



Carcharias (Prionodon) temminckii Muixek and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiosto- 



men, p. 48, pi. 18, 1841 (type, locality: Pondicherry). — Bleeker, Verb. 



Batav. Genootsch. (Bengal), vol. 25, p. 80, 1853 (reference). — DuMfiRiL, 



Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. ], p. 378, 1865 (compiled). — Martens, Preuss. 



Exped. Ost-Asien, vol. 1, p. 409, 1876 (Makassar Straits). 

 Carcharias temminckii Gxjntheb, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 374, 1870 



(Calcutta).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 717, 1878 (India); Fauna 



British India, vol. 1, p. 17, 1889. — Vinciguerra, Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. 



Genova, vol. 29. p. 160, 1889-90 (Rangoon). 

 Sqtialus (Carcharinus) temminckii Gray, List fish British Museum, p. 48, 1851 



(Calcutta). — Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 29, p. 36, 1860 



(Calcutta). 

 Carcharinus temminckii Gahman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 142, 1913 



(Indian Seas). 

 Etilami<i temminckii Fowler, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 493, 



1930 (reference). 



Depth 4% to subcaudal origin; head 3i/^, width 1%. Snout 21/3 

 in head; eye 15, 6% in snout, 8 in interorbital, orbicular; dentary 

 width 2% in head, length 1% its width with very short transverse 

 groove around angle and upper jaw; teeth in 36 rows above, 30 

 below, upper serrated and rather broadly triangular, lower narrowly 

 lanceolate, erect and entire, all with broad bases; nostrils about last 

 % in preoral length, aperture width 2l^ in internarial, front valve 

 small triangular flap; interorbital 2, broad, slightly convex. Gill 

 openings about equidistant, last shortest and fourth and fifth above 

 pectoral origin. 



Scales very small, tricuspid, with 3 keels, finely velvety to touch. 



First dorsal origin opposite hind inner angle of depressed pectoral, 

 front edge 2% in head; second dorsal origin slightly behind anal 

 origin, front edge 2% in head; anal origin slightly nearer ventral 

 origin than subcaudal origin, front edge 2% in head, fin smaller 

 than second dorsal; subcaudal front edge 2i/4 in head, 2 in its own 



