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length; least depth of caudal peduncle 51/2 in head; pectoral 1%, 

 width 1% its length; ventral length 2]/^ in head. 



Fawn color above, below whitish. On head whitish of lower 

 surfaces extends up to include side of snout and head until at least 

 level with upper part of eye. Iris gray. Fins largely gray 

 terminally. 



India, Burma, East Indies. Apparently rare in collections. 

 Known chiefly by its second dorsal distinctly larger than the anal, 

 wide pectoral, small eye and teeth. 



U.S.N.M. No. 8090. No locality. National Institute. Length, 403 mm. 

 EULAMIA MUNSING (Bleeker) 



Carcharias (Prionodon) munsing Bi-eekeb, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Madura), 

 vol. 22, p. 16, 1849 (type locality: Madura Straits near Kammal and Sura- 

 baya) ; (Plagiost.), vol. 24, pp. 27, 32, pi. 1, fig. 2, 1852 (head) (Kammal 

 and Surabaya). — Dumekil, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 354, 1865 

 (compiled). 



Carcharias munsing Gunthek, Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 365, 1870 

 (compiled). 



Carcharimts munsing Gabman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 144, 1913 

 (Java). 



Eidamia munsing Fowler, Occas. Pap. Bishop Mus., vol. 8, no. 7, p. 3, 1923 

 (Honolulu) ; Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 21, fig. 6, 1928 (Honolulu 

 specimen) ; Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 493, 1930 

 (Hawaii). 



Head 5I/2 to subcaudal origin, greatly wider than deep. Snout in 

 profile about 3% in head, depressed, widely convex or blunt as seen 

 from above; eye small, lateral, about first third in head, diameter 

 about y^ in snout length as seen in profile ; mouth width I14 in head, 

 well arched, length 1% its width, which much greater than preoral, 

 with slight groove above angle; teeth in about 24 rows in jaws; 

 upper teeth well serrated, broadly triangular, lower entire and with 

 slender cusps ; nostrils midway in preoral length, each subequal with 

 eye, internarial equals preoral length; interorbital about ll^. No 

 spiracle. 



Scales rather diamond-shaped, with 5 strong parallel ridges 

 formed to slightly serrated edges. 



First dorsal origin nearer ventrals than pectorals or origin at 

 last % in space between pectoral and ventral origins, front fin edge 

 about lYs in head; second dorsal little smaller than first, slightly 

 larger than anal; second dorsal and anal origins apparently oppo- 

 site ; caudal 3 in rest of body ; subcaudal about I14 in head ; pectoral 

 5l^ in body to upper caudal origin, width II/2 its length which half 

 way to ventral ; ventral length I14 in head. 



Uniform gray-brown above, under surface paler. Iris slaty. 



