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Ocean) ; Hong Kong Nat., vol. 1, p. 138, fig. 19, 1930 (compiled).— Wang, 

 Coutr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, vol. 9, p. 107, fig. 8, 1933 (Chusan). — 

 FowLEK, List Fish, Malaya, p. 15, 1938 (reference). 

 Narce dipterygia Chabanaxjd, Service Oc^anogr. Peches Indo-Chine, 1' Note, 

 p. 6, 1926 (Gulf of Siam). 



Snout short, greater than interorbital, slightly convex across front 

 profile as seen from above; eyes small, about half length of spiracle, 

 31/^ in interorbital ; mouth width equals space to front profile, small, 

 protractile; teeth in 15 rows in each jaw, low broad cusps; internasal 

 slightly less than mouth width; interorbital depressed. Spiracleb 

 continuous with eyes, greatly larger, ovate, edges entire. 



Skin smooth. 



Dorsal inserted behind ventral tips, little nearer upper caudal 

 lobe origin than ventral origin ; pectorals form subcircular disk, wide 

 as long, length little less than tail ; ventral with deeply incised outer 

 margin, front rays forming anterior lobe. 



Brown above, with several diffuse blackish cloudings medially. 

 Dorsal and caudal brown, also upper surface of ventral. Under 

 surface of body and ventrals below white. 



Arabian Sea, India, Malay Peninsula, Pinang, Singapore, East 

 Indies, Indo China, China, Japan. 



1 example A. N. S. P. Bombay. 1925. Prof. F. Hallberg. Length, 135 mm. 



NARKE JAPONICA (Schlegel) 



Torpedo (Astrapc) japonica Schlegel, in Siebold's Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pt. 

 15, p. 307, pi. 140, 1850 (type locality: Japan). 



Astrape japonica Bleeivee, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Japan), vol. 25, p. 22. 

 1853 (Japan). — Ishikawa and Matsuuea, Prelim. Cat. Fishes Mus. Tokyo, 

 p. 60, 1897.— Jordan and Snydee, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, p. 740, 1900 

 (Yokohama) ; Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 41, 1901 ( Nagasaki ) .—Jordan 

 and FowLEB, Proc. U. S. Nat Mus., vol 26, p. 656, 1903 (Wakanoura).— 

 Pietschmann, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., vol. 117, pt. 1, 

 p. 640, 1908 (Japan). 



Narke japonica Sntueb, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, p. 401, 1912 (Misaki; 

 Kagoshima). — Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 314, pi. 24, 

 fig. 3, pi. 56, fig. 10, pL 67, figs. 3-4, 1913 (Sagami Sea).— Izuka and Mat- 

 suuRA, Cat. Zool. Spec. Tokyo Mus. Vertebrata, p. 187, 1920 (Misaki).— 

 Wu, Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, vol. 5, No. 4, p. 12, fig. 9, 1929 (Amoy).— 

 Fowler, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 500, 1930 (Japan).— 

 Schmidt, Trans. Pacific Comm. Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., vol. 11, p. 11, 1931 

 (Tokyo).— Tan AKA, Jap. Fish. Life Colours, No. 33, 1933. 



Ceratoptera ehrenhergii (not Miiller and Henle) Day, Fishes of India, Suppl., 

 p. 812, 1888 (note on woodcut). 



Astrape dipterygia (not Schneider) Ishikawa and Matsuuba, Prelim. Cat. 

 Fishes Mus. Tokyo, p. 60, 1897. 



Depth 8 to 1114 to end of tail ; head 5 to 71/2 ; disk width 11/5 to 



2 in its length to hind pectoral edge. Snout 1% to 1% in head, 

 front edge broadly and but slightly convex as viewed from above ; eye 



