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Color uniform brownish on back and upper part of sides, paler below ; first and 

 second dorsals black on upper anterior half, white on posterior third ; upper lobe 

 of caudal with a broad blackish margin ; pectorals dark brownish anteriorly above, 

 whitish behind and on free margin ; ventrals and anal with rather indistinct pale 

 margins. 



Six specimens, twelve to fourteen inches long, from Takao. The species is 

 apparently close to Parmaturus pilosus Garman from Japan, but it seems to differ 

 from the latter in the insertion of the first dorsal and in the coloration of the fins. 



We agree with Regan that Parmaturus is not recognizably distinct from the 

 European genus Pristiurus. 



Family OREOTOLOBID/E. 



3. Chiloscyllium indicum (Gmelin). 



Formosa (Jordan & Evermann). 



Fig. 1. Chiloscyllium indicum (Gmelin). (After Jordan & EvermanD, Proc. U. S. N. M , Vol. 25, p. 317.) 



4. Orectolobus japonicus Regan. 



Formosa (Regan). 



Family CARCHARIID^. 



5. Scoliodon walbeehmi (Bleeker). (Plate LXIII, fig. 2.) 



(Native name Soo hii, = "sandfish.") 



One specimen from Takao, thirty-five inches long to end of tail. Another 

 specimen, eleven inches long, and figured by us, may represent a different species, 

 having the mouth characters of S. walbeehmi, but the tail much longer. Its descrip- 

 tion follows : 



Head 5 times in total length ; depth 5 in length to base of ventrals ; eye 2f in 

 interorbital space, which is contained 2^ in head (to first gill-opening) ; length of 

 snout from front margin of mouth equal to distance from back of orbit to second 

 gill-opening ; a short labial groove, equal to width of nostril, on upper jaw ; lower 



