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First dorsal inserted little nearer pectoral than ventral, base less 

 than height, emarginate, apex acute, little rounded, posteriorly acute ; 

 second dorsal 4 times base length from first dorsal, twice shorter than 

 anal, entirely behind anal, little emarginate, acute behind; anal less 

 twice low as base length, emarginate, obtusely rounded in front, pos- 

 teriorly acute ; caudal 314 to 31/3 in body ; pectoral longer than wide, 

 emarginate, ends rounded: ventral obliquely quadrate, more than 3 

 times shorter than pectoral, little or not emarginate, angles roim.ded. 



Above olive-coppery, below white. Fins blue-gray, except angle 

 of first dorsal, which strongly margined black. Pectorals terminally 

 and posteriorly and ventrals with all edges whitish. Length, 553 

 mm. (Bleeker.) 



East Indies, China. 



SCOLIODON JORDANI Ogilby 



Scoliodon jordani Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol. 21, p. 88, 1908 (type 

 locality: Outer Calouudra Bank in 25 fathoms, South Queensland) ; Mem. 

 Queensland Mus., vol. 5, p. 79, 1916 (type accidentally destroyed!). — 

 McCuLLOCH and Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 8, p. 128, 1925 

 (reference). — Fowleb, Proc. 4th (1929) Pac. Sci. Congress, Java, p. 494, 

 1930 (compiled). — Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 10, pt. 4, p. 186, 

 fig. 213 (type lost; types of Scoliodon afflnis and S. longmani; Burnett 

 River; Moreton Bay), p. 199 (reference), 1934. 



Carcharias acutus (not Riippell) Ogili-.y, Cat. Fishes Australian Mus., pt. 1, 

 p. 1, 1888; Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, ser. 2, vol. 3, p. 1766, 1889 

 (Burnett River, Queensland). 



Scoliodon affinis Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 1, p. 29, 1912 (type local- 

 ity: Noosa Head, Queensland) ; vol. 5, p. 79, 1916 (type). — McCulloch and 

 Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 8, pt. 2, p. 128, 1925 (reference). — 

 Fowler, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 494, 1930 (compiled). 



Scoliodon longmani Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 1, p. 30, 1912 (tyi)e 

 locality: Moreton Bay); vol. 5, p. 80, 1916 (type). — McCulloch and 

 Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 8, pt. 2, p. 128, 1925, (reference). — 

 Fowler, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 494, 1930 (compiled). 



Depth 10% in total; head 5, width 214. Snout 2% in head, pro- 

 duced, pointed ; eye 8, little nearer first gill opening than snout tip ; 

 mouth width 3% in head, % snout length, y^ more than mouth 

 length, mandible tip rounded, not extending forward to front eye 

 edge; outer labial groove very short, directed outwards at right 

 angle to jaw and % of space between eye and mouth, no inner groove; 

 internarial l%o in mouth width, space between outer nasal angles 

 little more than between inner mouth angle and snout tip. Gill 

 openings narrow, fourth widest though less than eye. 



First dorsal inserted nearer ventral than pectoral, front edge 

 undulose, outer angle rather sharply rounded, hind angle not quite 

 reaching ventral origin, base ll^ fin height; second dorsal very 

 small, inserted much nearer tail tip than first dorsal origin, base 

 length 314 of first dorsal; anal inserted much nearer caudal than 



