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Echinorhinus spinosus Grat, List fish British Museum, p. 78, 1851 (Cape 

 Seas).— GtJNTHEE, Cut. Fishes British Mus., vol. S, p. 428, 1870 (English 

 coasts to Cape of Good Hope). — McCoy, Protlromus Zool. Victoria, dec. 2, 

 pi. 144, 1887.— BouLENGER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 243, 1889 (Muscat). 

 — LuoAS, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, new ser., vol. 2, p. 44, 1890 (reference). — 

 Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 2, p. 42, 1908 (North Atlantic, 

 Mediterranean, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand). — Zugmayer, Abh. 

 Bayer. Akad. Wiss., math.-phys. Kl., vol. 26, p. 8, 1913 (Oman). — Jordan, 

 Tanaka, and Snydeb, Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, vol. 33, p. 23, 1913 (Japan). 



Echinorhinus obesus Andeew Smith, 111. zoology South Africa, Fishes, pi. 1, 

 1849 (type locality: Cape of Good Hope). 



Echinorhinus coolcei Pietschmann, Anz. Akad. W^iss. Wien, Nachr. 65, p. 297, 

 1928 (type locality: Hawaii); Bishop Mus. Bull. 73, p. 3, fig. I, 1930 

 (teeth and scales; type, from south coast of Kauai). 



? Echinorhinus {Rubiisqualus) mc coyi Whitley, Australian Zool., vol. 6, p. 311, 

 1931 (on Echinorhinus spinosus, said not of Gmelin, McCoy, 1887; type 

 locality: Portland, Victoria) ; Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 10, pt. 4, p. 200, 

 1934 (reference). 



Depth 51/4 to subcaudal origin; head 4%, width 1%. Snout 3 in 

 head; eye 6^, 2y^ in snout, 4 in interorbital ; mouth width 2 in 

 head, well arched, labial fold around each angle; teeth in 20 rows 

 in each jaw, sectorial, cusp with cutting edge inclined to horizontal 

 and several notches each side of base ; nostril at last fourth in snout, 

 inferior, internarial ll^ in preoral length, which 2% in head; inter- 

 orbital 1%, low. Gill openings large, first and second more sepa- 

 rated, last largest or 2% in head. Spiracle small, close behind eye. 



Skin with radiated bony tubercles with conic median spine, scat- 

 tered, irregular, very variable. 



First dorsal origin little behind ventral origin, fin length 1% in 

 head; second dorsal origin over hind basal ventral edge, fin length 

 1% in head ; caudal 2% in rest of body, front subcaudal edge 2% in 

 caudal length or 1% in head; least depth of caudal peduncle 2%; 

 pectoral length ly^, width about 1% its length; ventral length 1% in 

 head. 



Purplish brown, paler below. Back and sides with numerous, 

 rounded, darker spots. Whitish under chin and edge of lip. Tuber- 

 cles white. Paired fins and caudal edged darker brown. Iris green- 

 ish black, with silvery and bronze green and blue radiating lines 

 from pupil edge. Length, 2,193 mm. (McCoy.) 



Arabia, South Africa, Japan, Victoria, New Zealand, Hawaii. 

 Also in the Atlantic. I cannot find that Echinorhinus cookei is 

 other than a variant of this species. It is based on an example 2,033 

 mm. long, which I have examined in the Bishop Museum at Hono- 

 lulu. Whitley says of his Echinorhinus {Rubusqualus) mc coyi, "It 

 differs from a specimen in the Australian Museum from Tuscany in 

 having the eye over anterior portion of mouth, thicker and heavier 

 tail, dorsal fins closer together, the first dorsal originating over the 



