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Depth 7% to subcaudal origin; head 414, l^s in its width. Snout 

 11% in head, front edge nearly straight or with few weak undula- 

 tions; eye about 19; mouth width 2%, length about % width; teeth 

 triangular, inclined, edges finely serrated, lower little narrower ; nos- 

 trils rather close before eye, upper profile of head not notched above, 

 broad internarial I14 in head width; interorbital equals head length 

 to last gill opening. Last 2 gill openings above pectoral. 



First dorsal origin behind pectoral base though before inner hind 

 pectoral angle, front fin edge equals head to first gill opening; sec- 

 ond dorsal length 1% ; anal length 1%? origin slightly behind second 

 dorsal origin; ventral length 2i/8 in head, clasper slender, not to 



FiGUEE 9. — Sijhijrna lewini (Griffith) : U.S.N.M. No. 40014, from Richmond River, New 



South Wales. 



anal; pectoral long as head to second gill opening; caudal If^ in 

 rest of body, subcaudal 3% in caudal. 



Soiled blue-gray, under surfaces flesh color. Iris grayish yellow. 

 (Riippell.) 



Red Sea, India, China. According to Riippell exceeds 3,050 mm. 



SPHYRNA LEWINI (Griffith) 

 FlGtTRE 9 



Zygaena Ictvini Griffith, Animal Kiugd. Cuvier, vol. 10, p. 640, pi. 1, 1S34 (type 



locality: South coast of New Holland). 

 Zygaena leiiiciHii Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Sec. New South Wale.s, vol. 5, p. 96, 1880 



(Port Jackson). 

 Cestracion Jeeuwenii Day, Fishes of Malabar, p. 271, 1865 (compiled). 

 Cestracion (Zygaena) leetiwenii Dumeril, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 383, 



1865 ["Cotes de la terre de Leeuwen (Australie)"]. 

 Cestracion letoini Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 5, p. 81, 1916 (Moreton 



Bay). 



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