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Original]}' known only from Java, from 2 specimens, a male and 

 female 390 to 401 mm. The above description from a cast and head 

 of an example 1,500 mm. taken in the Honolulu market about 1904 

 and now in the Bishop Museum. 



Genus GLYPHIS Agassiz 



Glyphls Agassiz, Poissons Fossiles, vol. 3, p. 243, 1843. (Type, GJyphis hastalis 

 Agassiz, moDOtypic. Glyphis Carpenter, 1857, in mollusks precliuletl. ) 



GaJeus Vaimont, Diet. Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 1, p. 464, 1768. (Species non- 

 binomial. Type, Squahis glaucus Linnaeus, designated by Garman, Mem. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 4, 1913.) (Inadmissible.) 



PrioDodon (not Horsfield, 1823, in mammals) Muller and Henle, Syst. Beschr. 

 Piagiostomen, p. 35, 1841. (Type, Squalus glaucus Linnaeus, designated by 

 Fowler, Geol. Surv. New Jersey Bull. 4, p. 74, 1911. ) 



Prionace Cantor, Jouvn. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, p. 1399, 1849. (Type, 

 Squalus glaucus Linnaeus, virtually, as Prionace Cantor proposed to re- 

 place Prionodon Muller and Henle.) 



Body elongate, partly fusiform, tapering to head and tail. Head 

 depressed. Snout pointed, elongate. Eyes lateral, nictitating mem- 

 branes well developed. Mouth inferior, greatly arched, with rudi- 

 mentary labial folds, short and hidden at mouth angles. Teeth 

 curvilinear triangles, with serrated edges and broad bases. Nostrils 

 oblique, nearer mouth than snout end. Last 2 gills above pectoral 

 base. No spiracles. Scales minute, with wide, tricarinate crowns. 

 Dorsals, anal, and ventrals small. First dorsal nearer ventrals than 

 pectorals. Second dorsal opposite anal. Caudals narrow, pointed. 

 Pit before caudal above and belo%v. 



Temperate and tropical seas. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



f'\ Head 41^ to i\'-2\ ventral not larger than anal; pectoral with innermost 



margin concave glaucus 



a^. Head 4; venti'al lai-ger than anal; pectoral with innermost margin rounded. 



mackiei 

 GLYPHIS GLAUCUS (Linnaeus) 



Squalus glaucus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 235, 1758 (type locality: 

 Ocean Europaeo) ; ed. 12, vol. 1, p. 401, 1766. — Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Linn., vol. 

 1, p. 1490, 1789 (in omni mari).— Walbaum. Artedi Pise. vol. 3, p. 513, 1792 

 (copied). — FoRSTER, Fauna Indica, p. 13, 1795. — Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 

 vol. 1, p. 213, pi. 9, fig. 1, 1798.— Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 131, 1801 

 (omni mari). — Cuvier, Regne Animal, vol. 2, p. 126, 1817 (reference). ^ — 

 G. Bennett, Gatherings Nat. Australasia, p. 33, 1860 (Australia). 



Squalus (Carcharhius) glaucus Gray, List fish British Muj^eum, p. 44, 1851 

 (English coast; no locality). 



C'archarhrnus glaucus P.lainville, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, vol. 8, p. 121, 1916 

 (name only). 



Carcharhius glaucus Barnard, Ann. South African Mus., vol. 21, pt. 1, p. 26, 

 1925 (Agulhas Bank). 



