234 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



First dorsal length from spine ll^ in head to first gill opening, fin 

 base 1% in interdorsal space, fin long, low, height % of eye socket, 

 spine % of fin height; second dorsal higher and shorter, length 2 in 

 head to first gill opening, long curved spine high as posterior fin 

 which extends 14 caudal length ; caudal 1% in head to first gill open- 

 ing, anal 2; subcaudal length 2 in caudal; pectoral l%o ii^ head to 

 first gill opening. 



Uniform dark brown. Inside eye socket gray black, like internal 

 margins of gill clefts. Mouth with patches of gray black. 



Length, 107 cm. (Thompson.) 



New Zealand. 



CENTROPHORUS WAITEI Thompson 



CentropJiorus waitei Thompson, Rec. Canterbury Mus., vol. 3, No. 4, p. 277, pi. 

 44, figs, a-k, 1930 (type locality: Deep water, off Kaikoura). — Whitley, 

 Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 10, pt. 4, p. 200, 1934 (reference). 



Depth ^Yq to subcaudal origin; head to first gill opening 41/8, width 

 1%. Snout Zy2 in head; eye 4, 1% in snout, 2 in interorbital ; mouth 

 width 2% in head to first gill opening, wide; preoral length 2%; 

 labial fold extends well along edges of both jaws, on upper portion 

 not so marginated, shorter than other portion; upper teeth small, 

 very acute, in 4 irregular rows ; lower teeth with upper oblique cut- 

 ting edge and laterally directed cusp and oblique cutting edge parallel 

 to jaw; interorbital 214 in head to first gill opening, low, little convex 

 in profile ; nostrils ventral, close to snout tip and near its edge, inter- 

 nasal space slightly greater than eye. Gills subequal, last one % of 

 eye. Spiracle large, rather nearer eye than gill opening. 



Scales variable ; on lower lip like blunt spear head, overlap closely 

 showing little median keel; on upper lip similar, but with strong 

 median keel ; on lateral ventral surface 3-pronged with little "palm," 

 prongs subequal ; on middorsal part of middle of body tricuspid, only 

 moderately carinate, with median finger longest and "palm" 

 considerable. 



First dorsal 214 in head to first gill opening, 2i/^ in interdorsal 

 space, fin low ; second dorsal 2 in head to first gill opening or I14 to 

 subcaudal origin ; dorsal spines moderate, % height of respective fins ; 

 anal 1% in head to first gill opening, hind tip reaches opposite 

 second dorsal spine, fin 2 to subcaudal origin; caudal 2% in rest of 

 fish, front edge of subcaudal 21^ in caudal length; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 6% in head to first gill opening; pectoral 1%. 



Brownish-black all over. Inside of mouth, edge of nostrils and 

 eyes blue gray. Assumes a brownish-gray appearance on drying. 



Length, 320 mm. (Thompson.) 



New Zealand. Said to resemble C. plunketi Waite in the tail 

 though the shape of the caudal fin, pectoral, and teeth different. 



