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Snout short, much greater than interorbital, nearly straight across 

 front profile as seen from above ; eye less than spiracle, 2 in level of 

 interorbital; mouth small, width 1% to 1% to front profile; teeth 

 small, in about 20 rows in each jaw; internasal 1 to IVs mouth width. 

 Spiracle eye diameter behind eye, with 8 or 9 fleshy marginal 

 tentacles behind. 



Skin smooth. 



Dorsals small, imier angles rounded; origin of first before hind 

 basal edge of ventral and base end well behind ventral base ; tail 2V3 

 in total length, with small low fold each side; hind caudal edge 

 convex ; pectorals form subcircular disk, length l^V its width. 



Nearly fawn color above, with large dusky to dusky black 

 blotches, not sharply defined, close set, more or less uniform and all 

 nearly twice larger than eyes and spiracles. Xone extend on dorsals 

 or caudal or have faded ? from caudal peduncle and also not very 

 distinct on ventrals. Lower surface whitish, with light brown 

 around edges of disk. 



Red Sea, Persian Gulf, South Africa ?, Madagascar, India. 



I example. A.N.S.P. Bombay. Bombay Natural History Society. 1925. Length, 

 140 mm. 



Subgenus Tetronarce Gill 



TORPEDO FAIRCHILDI Hntton 



Torpedo fairchildi Htjtton, Colonial Mus. Geol. Survey Dept. (Fishes of New 

 Zealand), p. 83, pi. 12, fig. 134 (outline), 1S72 (type locality: Napier Har- 

 bor, New Zealand). — Hobson, New Zealand Journ. Sci., vol. 2, pp. 27, 123, 

 1886 (breeding). — McCulloch, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 12, p. 171, pi. 25, 

 1919 (New South Wales).— Fowler, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., 

 Java, p. 499, 1930 (reference). 



Narcacion fairchildi Waite, Rec. Canterbury Mus., vol. 1, No. 1, p. 8, 1907 

 (reference) ; vol. 1, No. 2, p. 144, pi. 17, 1909 (Otago Heads, Banks Penin- 

 sula, Cook Strait, Poverty Bay, Bay of Plenty, Hauraki Gulf, in 18-102 

 fathoms). — Gabman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 310, 1913 (Napier 

 Harbor; Australia). 



Narcohatns fairchildi Waite, Rec. South Australian Mus., vol. 2, p. 28, fig. 40, 

 1921.— McCurxocH, Biol. Res. Endeavour, vol. 5, pt. 4, p. 159, 1926 (Bass 

 Strait, Great Australian Bight, in 80-320 fathoms) ; Fishes of New South 

 Wales, ed. 2, p. 10, pi. 3, fig. 32a, 1927. 



Torpedo fusca Pakkee, Trans New Zealand Inst., vol. 16, p. 288, pi. 22, 1884 

 (type locality: Dunedin, New Zealand). — Kilcoyne, Trans. New Zealand 

 Inst., vol. 27, p. 672, 1895. 



Notastrape macneilU Whitxey, Records Austral. Mus., vol. 18, p. 327, 1932 (type 

 locality : Off Green Cape, New South Wales, 49 fathoms, as Torpedo fairchildi 

 McCulloch, not Hutton). 



Head to hind spiracle edge 7% in total length. Snout 1% in 

 head to hind spiracle edge ; eye 7, 414 in snout, 3% in interorbital ; 

 mouth arched, wide as its distance from end of snout ; teeth in band 

 in jaws, with broad bases and sharp upstanding points; each nostril 



