>^7iarls oj the Family Scyliorljinidte. 45".' 



Upper surface browiiisii, with scattered rounded dark brown 

 spots and smaller briglit yellow spots; back with several 

 dark cross-bands or ))airs of bands which are more or less 

 broken up into double series of dark spots ; lower surface 

 yellow, with nunierous dark spots. In structural characters 

 differing- but slightly from the preceding species. 



Hah. Pacific Coast of America from California to Chile. 



In the British ]\Iiiseum one example, 620 mm, in total 

 length. 



1(). ScyUurhlnus uinhralilis. 



(''cp/talo.sci/llh(>n vmOratile, Jurd. & Fowler, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mas. xxvi. 

 1903, p. 602, fig. 1. 



Brownish, spotted and marbled with darker; l)ack with 

 dark transverse bands, the tirst behind the eyes, the second 

 between the pectorals, the fourth and lifth through the bases 

 of the dorsal fins. 



J /ah. Japan. 



In the British Museum one example, 1000 mm. in total 

 length. 



Section 3. Hai.-emjrus. 



11. Scyliorhinus indicas. 



Scyliorhinus indicus, Brauer, ' Valdivia ' Tiefsee-Fische, p. 8, pi. xiv. 

 tig. 1 (1900). 



Dr. A. Brauer has kindly informed me that in this species 

 the labial fold extends along the lower jaw a little less than 

 \ the distance to the symphysis. As in most of the deep- 

 sea species of this genus, the coloration is nearly uniform. 



Uah. Indian Ocean, at depths of 1289 to 1840 metres off 

 East Africa and in the Gulf of Aden. 



12. hicyUorhinus hninneua. 



Catulus brunnem, Gilbert, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1=!91, p. 542 ; Jord. & 

 Everm. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. xlvii. 1896, p. 24. 



Ilah. Gulf of California, in deep water. 



13. Scyliorhinus sponyiceps. 



Catulus Kpv7i(/icej)S, (iilbert, Bull. I'.S. Fish. Couuii. 1903, p. 579 

 (1905). 



I lab. Hawaii, 31o to 800 fathoms. 



