CARCHABIID^. 9 



Snout rounded. Only the outer sides of the 



bases of the upper teeth serrated .... 7. C. hemiodon, p. 12. 

 E. Some or all of the teeth serrated both 



Teeth in both jaws serrated. Second dorsal 



much shorter than anal .............. 8. C. gorrah, p. 12. 



Teeth in both jaws serrated. Second dorsal 



not much smaller than the anal. Fins 



darkish with light edges ............ 9. C. dussumicri, p. 13. 



Snout obtuse. Teeth in both jaws serrated. 10. C. ganyetiaus, p. 13. 

 Teeth in both jaws serrated. All the fins 



black-edged ..................... 11. C. melanoptcrus, p. 14. 



Fins, except the first dorsal, with black ex- 



tremities .......................... 12. C. bleekeri, p. 15. 



Teeth coarsely serrated in upper jaw ; awl- 



shaped in lower, some with a basal 



cusp .............................. 13. C. ellioti, p. 15. 



Upper teeth serrated. Second dorsal oppo- 



site to but larger than the anal. A black 



spot on the second dorsal ............ 14. C. murrayi, p. 10. 



Upper teeth serrated. Second dorsal oppo- 



site the anal. A black spot on second 



dorsal ............................ 15. C. menisorrah, p. 10. 



Upper teeth serrated and on rather a broad 



base ; lower more slender. Ends of some 



of the fins black .................... 16. C. limbatus, p. 17. 



Teeth in both jaws slender, and from thirty- 



six to forty in number .............. 17. C. temminckii. p. 17. 



1. (1.) Carcharias laticaudus. (Pig. 1.) 



Carcharias (Scoliodon) laticaudus, Mull. 8? Ifenle, Plagios. p. 28, 



t. viii. 

 Carcharias laticaudus, Day, Fish. India, p. 712, pi. clxxxviii, fig. 1 



(see synonymy). 

 Dan-da-nee, Sind. ; Nulhan sorrah and Palah sorrah, Tel. 



Length of preoral portion of snout exceeding the width of the 

 mouth by one fifth, and equal to or slightly more than the distance 





Fig. 1. Carcharias laticaudus. 



between the eye and the first gill-opening (longer in the imma- 

 ture) ; the groove at the angle of the mouth scarcely extends on to 

 the upper jaw. Nostrils very much nearer to the mouth than to the 

 end of snout. Teeth those in upper jaw rather oblique, not swollen 



