134 bullp:tin loo, united states national museum 



ventral or wholly before second dorsal, hind edge much shorter than 

 that of second dorsal and little less than basal length, which 2% in 

 space to caudal pit; caudal IVio in head, 4i/^ in total, subcaudal 2l^ 

 in caudal length to notch ; pectoral reaches below first dorsal origin, 

 front edge linear, lower angle rounded, width % its length; ventral 

 rather small, angles obtusely rounded. 



Dark ashy blue above, gray beneath. Iris white. Paired fins 

 outwardly edged ash gray. Length, 860 mm. (Ogilby.) 



Queensland. 



SCOLIODON VAGATUS Garman 



ScoUodon vagatus Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 116, 1913 (type 

 locality: Zanzibar). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1925, p. 

 190 (Delagoa Bay). 



Carcharinns var/atiis Barnard, Ami. South African Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, p. 1012, 

 1927 (compiled). 



Depth 514 to subcaudal origin; head S%. Snout 2% in head; 

 eye 7, 3 in snout in profile; mouth length I14 its width, short labial 

 folds on both jaws, upper little longer or % of eye, reaches % to 

 hind eye edge in profile ; teeth in 25 rows above, 23 rows below, bases 

 broad, cusps rather narrow, short, inner or cutting edges well in- 

 clined toward mouth angles and all edges entire; upper teeth with 

 slightly wider cusps. 



Scales minute, tridentate, with 3 keels. 



First dorsal origin slightly behind pectoral base, well before inner 

 pectoral angle, slightly longer than high, hind edge deeply emargi- 

 nate and ends behind in sharp, slender point, nearly opposite ventral 

 origin ; second dorsal base slightly over half of anal base, hind angle 

 ends in slender point, base % its distance from caudal, insertion little 

 before anal origin ; anal third again large as second dorsal, base half 

 space to ventral origin ; caudal 3^4 in total length, slender, subcaudal 

 % of upper lobe, pits well developed; pectoral reaches i/^ in first 

 dorsal base, width 1% length, hind edge concave; ventral small, 

 rounded externally, hind lobe moderate. 



Back mauve-gray. First dorsal with black edge and tail deeper 

 at point. 



Zanzibar, Portuguese East Africa. The type in the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology is 773 mm. long. 



1 example. A.N.S.P. Delagoa Bay. H. W. Bell Marley. Length, 355 mm. 

 SCOLIODON WALBEEHMII (Bleeker) 



Carcharias (ScoUodon) u-albeehmii Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 



10, p. (348) 353, 1856 (type locality; Rio, BIntang Island). 

 Carcharias {ScoUodon) tvalbeehnii Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 



13, p. 284 (Tjirutjup, Biliton), p. 389 (Timor koepang), 1857.— Dum^bil, 



Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 344, 1865 (compiled). — Bleeker, Versl. 



Meded. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, ser. 2, vol, 2, p. 290, 1868 (Rio, Bintang), 



