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long and 3 series of small laterals each side; internarial 1% in pre- 

 oral length, nasal valves form broad free flap, leaving wide space 

 before teeth, hind edge shortly fringed and with slightly median 

 notch; interorbital level, fontanel moderate. Spiracle little larger 

 than eye. 



Body entirely smooth. 



Dorsal origin above ends of ventral bases, hind margin not free 

 from tail, edge 1% in interorbital; tail without spine; disk length 

 1% in its width, convex along front edges, hind edges concave and 

 outer angles rather narrow; ventrals little more than interorbital, 

 width little less half length; claspers extend but little beyond 

 ventrals. 



Back dark uniform brown, without traces of spots. Below whit- 

 ish, with disk marginally more or less soiled with dirty brown. Iris 

 dark gray. Tail brown, paler below anteriorly. 



Red Sea, India, Pinang, East Indies, Philippines, China. 



1 example. A.N.S.P. Bombay, India. Prof. F. Hallberg. Disk length to clasper 

 ends, 280 mm., tail, 328 mm., disk width, 438 mm. 



AETOMYLUS NICHOFII (Schneider) 



Raja nicJiofii Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 364, 1801 (on Zec-rleermuis 

 Nieuhof, Gadenk. Reiz., vol. 1, p. 278, fig., 1682, type locality: East Indies). 



Aeto'batus nicliofli Blainvuxe, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, vol. 8, p. 112, 1816 

 (name only). 



Myliolatis nienhoioii Cuvier, Regne animal, vol. 1, p. 138, 1817 (on Willoughby). 



MylioMtis nleuhofii MtiLLER and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Plagiostomen, p. 177, 

 1841 (India, New Holland, Mediterranean, Malabar, Pondicherry). — 

 Cantor, Jouru. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, p. 1414, 1849 (Pinang). — Gray, 

 List Fish British Museum, p. 1929, 1851 (reference). — Jekdon, Madras 

 Journ. Lit. Sci., vol. 17, p. 149, 1851. — Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. 

 (Plagiost), vol. 24, p. 85, 1852 (Batavia) ; (Bengal), vol. 25, p. 9, 1853 

 (on Mookarah tenkee Russell, Fishes of Coromandel, vol. 1, p. 4, pi. 7, 

 Vizagapatam), p. 82 (reference), 1803; Nat. Tijdschr. Nederlaud. Indie, 

 )vol. 10, p. 348, 1856 (Rio, Bintang) ; vol. 16, p. 196, 1858 (Sinkawang, 

 Borneo) ; Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerl., vol. 5, No. 7, p. 2, 1859 (Sinkawang). — 

 DuM^RLL, Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 638, 1865 (Pondicherry).— Kneb, 

 Reise Novara, Fische, p. 421, 1865 (Java). — Bleeker, Versl. Meded. Akad. 

 Wet. Amsterdam, ser. 2, vol. 2, p. 290, 1868 (Rio, Bintang).— Gtjntheb, 

 Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. 8, p. 491, 1870 (Pinang, Moluccas, Japan).— 

 Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Acclimat. Soc. Victoria, vol. 1, p. 227, 1872 (Mel- 

 bourne materials; Singapore; Malacca); vol. 2, p. 58, 1873 (Melbourne 

 sea). — Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, vol. 1, p. 410, 1876 (Singa- 

 pore).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, p. 742, 1878 (Madras).— Karoli, 

 Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, p. 148, 1881 (Yokohama).— Lucas, 

 Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, new ser., vol. 2, p. 46, 1890 (passim). — Eleea, 

 Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 621, 1895 (Cavite, Luzon). — Jordan and 

 Fowler, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 26, p. 604, 1903 (on Giinther's Japanese 

 record) .—VoLz, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 66, p. 241, 1907 

 (Padang). — Annandale, Mem. Indian Mus., vol. 2, p. 51, 1909 (off Orissa, 

 Chittagong, Burma, Ganges mouth). — Bean and Weed, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



