FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 337 



Rusty brown, with irregular small and larger spots, largest along 

 middle of back. Wliite beneath. Length, 330 mm. (Garman.) 

 China. 



NARCINE TASMANIENSIS Richardson 



Narcine tasmuniensis Richaedson, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1840, p. 29 (type 

 locality : Port Arthur and Hobart Town, Tasmania ) ; Trans. Zool. Soc. Lon- 

 don, vol. 3, p. 178, pi. 11, figs. 2, 2a-b, 1841 (Port Arthur).— Dumeeil, 

 Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 517, 1865 (compiled). — Gunthee, Cat. Fishes 

 British Mus., vol. 8, p. 452, 1870 (type). — Castexnau, Proc. Zool. Acclimat. 

 Soc. Victoria, vol. 1, p. 223, 1872 (Bass Straits and Hobart Town).— 

 Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 5, p. 310, 1880 (Tas- 

 mania) ; vol. 6, p. 374, 1881 (Tasmania).— Lucas, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 

 new series, vol. 2, p. 45, 1890 (St. Kilda beach). — ^Waite, Mem. Australian 

 Mus., vol. 4, p. 41, 1899 (off Wata Mooli, New South Wales, in 70 to 78 

 fathoms). — McCuii,ocH, Zool. Res. Endeavour, vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 14, 1911 (Bass 

 Strait).— Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 301, 1913 (Tasma- 

 nia). — McCuixocH, Fishes New South Wales, ed. 2, pi. 3, fig. 34a, 

 1927.— FowLEE, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 500, 1930 

 (reference). 



Head to first gill opening 5% in total length. Snout 2l^ in head 

 to first gill opening; eye 9^^, 4% in snout, 3% in interorbital ; mouth 

 width 4% in head to first gill opening, protractile; teeth bands 

 narrow, angular on outer border ; teeth in about 12 or 13 rows, each 

 with acute point on inner edge of crown; front nasal valves con- 

 fluent in wide flap, form obtuse lobe on side of each nostril, inter- 

 narial 3% in head to first gill opening; interorbital 2^^, nearly 

 level. Spiracle at least orbital diameter behind orbit, which 1% in 

 spiracle. 



Origin of first dorsal above hind basal ends of ventrals, fin length 

 1% in head to first gill opening; second dorsal length 1%; caudal 

 4% in rest of body; pectorals form broadly ovate disk, length 1% 

 its width or 2% in total length; ventral 5^, obtuse. 



Above uniform yellowish brown, below pale. Length, 367 mm. 

 (Richardson.) 



New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania. 



Genus HETERONARCE Regan 



Eeteronarce Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 7, p. 414, 1921. (Type, 

 Eeteronarce garmani Regan, monotypic.) 



Nostrils minute. Nasal flap only little broader than long, studded 

 with pores. Spiracles contiguous with eyes. Dorsals two. 

 Indian Ocean. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



o\ Spiracles large, each % their interspace; disk slightly more than half total 



length mollis 



a*. Spiracles small, each % their interspace; disk less than half total length. 



garmani 



