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in total body length, much less double longer than wide, emarginate, 

 acute; ventrals oblique, quadrate, emarginate, one-fourth as long as 

 pectoral. 



Body and fins above coppery bluish, below white. Iris gray, pupil 

 silver gray. Pectoral white below, apex blackish. Ventral and 

 caudal margined with blackish. Length, 1,540 mm. (Bleeker.) 



Singapore, East Indies, Queensland. 



EULAMIA STEVENSI (Ogilby) 



C(trchari(i:< .'.fere»,v(' Ogilby, Ann. Queensland Mus., No. 10, p. 38, 1911 (type 

 locality: Bustard Bay and North West Islet, Queensland). 



Carcharhinus stevensi Ogilby, Ann. Queensland Mus., No. 10, p. 37, 1911 (ref- 

 erence) ; Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 5, p. 80, 191G (types). — McCuixoch 

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

 McGuLLOCH, Fislies New South Wales, ed. 2, p. 5, 1927. 



Eulamia uterensi Fowler. Proc. 4tli (1929) Pac. Sci. Congress, Java, p. 491, 1930 

 ( compiled ) . 



Goteolaninoides stercnsi Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 10, pt. 4, p. 191 

 (Moreton Bay), p. 198 (reference), 1934. 



Depth 51/3 to 5% in total length; head 4%o? ^vidth 1%. Snout 

 2% in head, short, blunt; eye midway between snout tip and second 

 gill opening, 314 to 4 in preoral length; mouth width 2^4 in head, 

 length 11/4 width, rounded, labial grooves short, upper deeper than 

 lower; teeth 29 rows above, 30 below, upper triangular, both edges 

 finely serrated and scarcely notched; lower teeth erect, entire, nar- 

 row, base moderately broad, front pair xevy small; preoral length 

 3l^ in head; internarial I14; interocular width l%o- GriH openings 

 wide, last li/o in third, which 21^ to 3 times eye diameter. 



First dorsal inserted % nearer pectoral than ventral, front border 

 linear, hind angle produced and acute, not nearly reaching vertical 

 of ventral, fin height 1/10 more than basal length; second dorsal in- 

 serted Ys nearer tail tip than first dorsal origin, interdorsal II/5 in 

 predorsal length and l%o times first dorsal base; caudal 3i/o to 0% 

 in total length, upper angle obtusely pointed; front edge of sub- 

 caudal 21/10 ill caudal; anal origin opposite second dorsal origin, 

 length 11^ in space to subcaudai, which II/5 to 1% in that from 

 ventral; pectoral 4l^ to 4I/2 in total body length, inserted little 

 nearer snout tip than to ventral, extends below end of first dorsal, 

 front and hind borders convex, outer emarginate, upper angle 

 pointed and lower rounded; space between ventral and anal 3 to 

 3l^ in space from pectoral. 



Ash blue above, white below. Length, 164 to 187 mm. (Ogilby.) 



Queensland, New South Wales. According to Ogilby the extreme 

 shortness of the postventral region, which is at least 14 less than 

 head and trunk, is diagnostic. He gives the short tail length as II/4 

 to 1% in head and trunk. I place this species provisionally near 



