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bluntly rounded snout and more slender body) cannot even be con-l 

 sidered as minor variations because all of them are similarly repre- 

 sented in the range of variation of characters for specimens I have, 

 examined from Japan and the Philippine Islands. Some of the more 

 important ones are compared in tables 4 and 6. 



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