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Hemigaleus pingi Bvermann and Shaw, Proc, California Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 

 16, p. 98, 1927 (type locality: Wenchow, China). 



Depth 9 in total length, body elongate, compressed ; head 7 to T^^, 

 broader than deep. Snout rather broadly rounded; eye 2I/3 to 

 21/2 in snout, pupil triangular; mouth width nearly equals preoral 

 length, length of gape 2% its width; labial fold around each mouth 

 angle, upper nearly half jaw length, lower % to symphysis; upper 

 teeth in about 32 rows, obliquely triangular with outer edges serrated 

 and iimer edge smoothly convex, smaller lower teeth with broad bases 

 and entire, slender, narrow cusps ; nostrils at first % in space between 

 snout tip and rictus, slightly nearer snout tip than mouth and nasal 

 valve with triangular lobe. Last gill opening above pectoral. Spir- 

 acle small pore, close behind eye. 



Scales each with 3 or 4 keels. Lateral line inconspicuous. 



First dorsal midway between pectorals and ventrals, high as long, 

 emarginate, angle acute ; second dorsal before anal, shorter and lower 

 than first dorsal; anal little lower than long, angles acute, strongly 

 emarginate, twice in space to subcaudal; caudal 2 in total length, 

 strongly emarginate; pectoral twice long as wide, emarginate, 

 strongly acute ; ventral subquadrate, little longer than broad, emargi- 

 nate, angles acute. 



Above reddish gray, below yellowish. Fins gray, second dorsal 

 dusky, apex whitish. Length, 701 mm. (Bleeker.) 



Singapore, East Indies, China. 



The imperfectly described Hemigaleus pingi is probably synony- 

 mous, having been based on a young specimen : 



Body elongate, slender ; head depressed, flattened below. Nictitat- 

 ing membrane present ; preoral equals mouth width ; mouth inferior, 

 crescentic, with distinct labial folds, groove at angle extending some 

 distance on each jaw ; 3 rows of teeth on upper and lower jaws, each 

 tooth with basal lobe; nostrils nearer mouth than to snout, space 

 between their outer points slightly greater than mouth width; space 

 between eye and spiracle about 3 in eye diameter. Spiracle small. 

 First dorsal opposite space between pectorals and ventrals; second 

 dorsal little in advance of anal; pit below and one above caudal; 

 "pectoral near gill opening." Dark brown, lighter below. A few 

 black spots on each side of body. Length, 266 mm. (Evermann and 

 Shaw.) 



Genus GALEOCERDO Muller and Henle 



Galeocerdo Muuleb and Henle, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1837, p. 115. 



(Type, Squalus arcticus Faber, in Miiller and Henle, Arch. Naturg., 1837, 



p. 397, monotypic.) 

 Qaleodes (not Olivier, 1791, in Arachnida, or Bolten, 1798, in MoUusea) Heckel, 



Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., vol. 11, p. 324, 1854. (Type, 



Galeodes priscus Heckel, monotypic.) (Fossil.) 



