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concavely. Gill openings nearly equidistant, sliort. Spiracles close 

 behind eye and subequal, hind edge with 2 folds. 



Row of small tubercles along each supraorbital edge, interrupted 

 by division of spiracle. Median row of small vertebral tubercles 

 down back, also short series on each shoulder, broken midway in 

 its length. 



First dorsal origin over ventral origin, front edge 2 in head, with 

 long narrow point behind ; second dorsal inserted nearer caudal origin 

 than first dorsal orgin, front edge 21/^ to 2% in head, with long, narrow 

 point behind ; caudal axis slightly elevated ; supracaudal pointed, 1% 

 to 1% in head, subcaudal li/^ in supracaudal; pectoral not reaching 

 forward opposite nostrils; ventral length 2% to 2l^ in head. 



Above gray, with obscure small white spots scattered about, sur- 

 rounding round blackish spot less than eye in size, which above each 

 end of shoulder girdle. Under surfaces uniform gray white. 



Red Sea, Arabia, Zanzibar, Madagascar, Natal, Seychelles, India, 

 Ceylon, Andamans, Pinang, Malay Peninsula, Singapore, East Indies, 

 Philippines. Cochinchina, Japan, Melanesia, Queensland, New South 

 "Wales. 



4528. Manila market. December 18, 1907. Length, 443 mm. 



5250. Manila market. March 20, 1908. Length, 517 mm. 



6728. Manila market. December 5, 1908. Length, 770 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 72480. Batavia Java. Bryant and Palmer. Length, 590 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 51356. Tsuruga, Japan. Jordan and Snyder. Head and part of 

 pectoral fin, 510 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 29019. Port Jackson. Australian Museum. Specimen skinned 

 out, 1,500 mm. 



A.N.S.P. No. 25125. Padang, Sumatra. A. C. Harrison and H. M. Hiller. 

 Length, 734 mm. Color in arrack gray above, tinted with very pale oli- 

 vaceous. Disk edges above, ventrals and lateral edges of caudal peduncle 

 and trunk whitish like under surface of body. Large round jet-black spot 

 little less than eye at each pectoral base. About eyes, black pectoral spot 

 and on hind basal portion of pectoral, together witli upper trunk sides op- 

 posite first dorsal, number of small white spots about size of pupil, each 

 edged with pale slaty. Several dark spots on snout below anteriorly. 



RHYNCHOBATUS YENTINENSIS Wanj 



Rliijvclioiattis ycnti'iiensis Wang, Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, vol. 9, No. 

 3, p. 98, fig. 4, 1933 (type locality: Wenchow). 



Body elongate, depressed throughout. Head rather large, pointed, 

 much depressed, width much greater than depth. Snout long, 

 pointed, tip acutely rounded, twice or more longer than interorbital 

 width ; eye superior, above and in front of mouth angle, much nearer 

 first gill opening than snout tip; mouth inferior, moderate, slightly 

 undulated, much nearer hind gill opening than snout tip ; teeth oval, 

 very obtusely rounded, some with central cusp, alike in both jaws, in 

 27 rows; nostrils large, inner end obliquely inclined above mouth 



