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Head trifle less than 4 in length, depressed anteriorly, much 

 wider than high. Snout more tlian 1% times width of arched mouth; 

 eye equals width of gill openings; mouth length 1% times it own 

 width, labial folds on both jaws at mouth angle, upper about half 

 length of mouth and lower fold trifle more than half length of 

 upper ; teeth in 21 rows above, larger, oblique, bases broad, with long 

 sharp point and 5 or 6 denticulations on concave cutting edge, 3 

 median rows small, erect and simple; lower teeth 40, small, acute, 

 slender, smooth, nearly erect, last 7 rows on each side very much re- 

 duced; nostrils nearer snout end than mouth angles, with triangular 

 lobe over inner one. Spiracle hardly half an eye diameter behind 

 eye, much larger than pores. 



Anal origin behind second dorsal origin, which larger than anal 

 and % large as first dorsal; caudal less than interdorsal space, 

 nearly 3^/^ in lengtli; subcaudal pointed; pectoral falciform, pomted, 

 little more than twice long as broad, extends below middle of dorsal. 



Uniform gray, becoming yellowish white underneath. Fins with 

 reddish or violaceous tinge, more or less pale edged, tips of both 

 dorsals whitish. Length, 773 nnn. (Herre.) 



Philippines. 



HEMIGALEUS MACROSTOMA Bleeker 



Hcmigaleus macrostoma Bleekeb, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Plagiost.), vol. 24, 

 p. 46, pi. 2, fig. 10, 1852 (type locality: Batavia and Samaiang) ; Versl. 

 Meded. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 12, p. 30, 1861 (Singapore).— Dum6ril, 

 Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 392, 1865 (Batavia, Java).— Kner, Reise 

 Novara, Fische, p. 415, 1865 (Java). — Gunthek, Cat. Fish. Brit. IMns., vol. 8, 

 p. 376, 1870 (type).— Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 151, 1913 

 (Java). — Weber, Siboga Exped., Fische, vol. 57, p. 591, 1913 (Makassar). — 

 TiBANT, Service Oct^anogr. Peches Indo Chine, 6* note, p. 62, 1929 (Phiiroc 

 Hai). — Chevey Inst. Oct^anogr. Indochine, 19^ note, p. 6, 1932 (Indochina). — 

 Fowler, List Fish. Malaya, p. 10, 1938 (reference). 



Hemigaleus marcrosioma Fowler, Proc. 4tli (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 

 490, 1930 (reference). (Error.) 



f Hypoprion notatus Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Mid. Oost Java), vol. 

 23, pp. 1-23, 1850 (type locality: Java). 



Depth 9 in total length, body elongate, compressed; head 6i/^, 

 acute, broader than deep. Eye 2i/2 in snout, pupil triangular ; mouth 

 width very slightly greater than preoral length, mouth length li/4 in 

 mouth width; labial fold around each mouth angle, upper y^ upper 

 jaw length, lower less than 14 to symphysis; teeth in about 34 rows, 

 bases wide, upper inclined with concave edges and 2 or 3 denticles on 

 outer basal edge, small median teeth erect, lower triangular teeth 

 acute, slender, smooth and erect; nostrils about first % in space be- 

 tween snout tip and mouth angle, though little nearer mouth than 

 snout tip, internarial 1% in preoral ; nasal valves each with triangular 



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