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ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



c\ Ukolophus. Tail short, length less than half its space from mouth. 

 6\ No tubercle on shoulder girdle. 



c\ Back uniform brown aurantiacus 



(?. Back with dark vertebral streak sufflavus 



c^ Back with dark transverse and longitudinal markings cruciatus 



b*. Back spinose, tubercle on shoulder girdle; brown with more or less scat- 

 tered round dark spots armatus 



a^ Teygonopteba. Tail longer than its space from mouth. 



d\ Hind edge of internasal valve with narrow fringe or lobules ; nostrils 

 without broad hind lobes. 

 e\ Papillae behind lower jaw numerous, close together. 

 f. Snout would form right angle; back pale brown, closely specked 



with small brownish white dots bucculentus 



f. Snout would form very blunt angle ; back dark brown, with numer- 

 ous small or pale spots javanicus 



e*. Papillae behind lower jaw fewer, widely spaced. 



£?\ Disk slightly broader than long; back uniform viridis 



(f. Disk much wider than long. 



/i-\ Back unifoi'm kaianus 



I?. Back with dark cross bars expansus 



d*. Hind edge of interuarial valves broadly fringed ; nostrils with broad 

 posterior lobes testaceus 



Subgenus Urolophus Miiller and Henle 



UROLOPHUS AURANTIACUS MuUer and Henle 



Urolophus aurantiacus Mulleb and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 173, 

 pi. 56, 1841 (type locality: Gotto Island, southwest coast of Japan). — 

 ScHtEGEX,, in Siebold's Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pt. 15, p. 307, 1850. — Gkay, 

 List fish British Museum, p. 126, 1851 (reference). — Bleeke3£, Verb. Batav. 

 Genootsch. (Japan), vol. 25, p. 22, 1853 (Gotto; China); Nederlaud. 

 Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 2, p. 68, 1865 (reference).— Fowlee, Proc. 4th (1929) 

 Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 503, 1930 (reference). 



Pastinaca jeinorii (Biirger) MtiuLER and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, 

 p. 173, 1841 (name in synonymy). 



Urolophus cruciatus (not Lacepede) Dumeeil, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, 

 p. 626, 1865 (part). 



Urolophus fusciis Gakman, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 8, p. 41, 1865 (type lo- 

 cality: East coast Niphon, Japan). — Jordan and Fowler, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 26, p. 657, 1903 (Tokyo, Kobe, Hiroshima, Hakata, Wakanoura).— 

 Smith and Pope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, p. 460, 1906 (Kagoshima).— 

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

 p. 640, 1908 (Japan).— Snydee, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, p. 401, 1912 

 (Tokyo). — Jordan and Thompson, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, p. 208, 1914 

 (Osaka). — Izuka and Matsuuba, Cat. Zool. Spec. Tokyo Mus., Vertebrata, 

 p. 187, 1920 (Misaki). — Jordan and Hubbs, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 10, 

 p. 115, 1925 (Yokohama, Toba, Misaki, Kagoshima Bay). — Mori, Joum. 

 Pan Pacific Res. Inst., vol 3, p. 3, 1928 (Fusan, Korea). — Fowler, Proc. 

 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 503, 1930 (Japan).— Schmidt, 

 Trans. Pacific Comm. Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., vol. 11, p. 14, 1931 (Misaki). 



