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small, close to the eye. Mouth large, with a short labial fold at the angles. 

 Teeth tricuspid, median cusp longest. Dorsals subequal; origin of the first 

 dorsal little in front of the hind ends of the bases of the ventrals; origin of the 

 second dorsal little forward of the hinder end of the base of ^he anal. Hind 

 margins of ventrals oblique. Base of the anal little longer than that of either 

 of the dorsals, equal to half or more of its distance from the caudal. 



Back with numerous, twenty or more, cross bands of dark brown separated 

 by spaces of lighter, not passing to the lower surfaces; fins tipped with light 

 color. 



Type a male, apparently adult, eleven inches in length, taken off the coast 

 of Malabar in 102 fathoms. 



Halaelurus hispidus. 



Scyllimn hispidum Alcock, 1891, Ann. & mag. nat. hist., ser. 6, 8, p. 21; 1894, 111. zool. Investigator 



pi. 8, f. 3; 1899, Cat. deep-sea fishes Indian mus., p. 15. 

 Scyliorhinus hispidus Brauer, 1906, Valdivia Tiefsee fische, p. 7; Regan, 1908, Ann. & mag. nat. hist., 



ser. 8, 1, p. 460. 



Head broad, depressed; snout broadly rounded, preoral portion in length 

 less than half the width. Anterior nasal valves widely separated, with rudimen- 

 tary cirri. Eyes large. Spiracles small, close to the eye. Labial folds at the 

 angles of the mouth. Teeth three to five cusped, median cusp largest. Scales 

 small, acutely tricuspid. Second dorsal the smaller. Origin of the first dorsal 

 little in advance of the ends of the bases of the ventrals; origin of the second 

 dorsal nearly above the middle of the anal base. Base of anal twice as long 

 as that of the second dorsal the end of which is about opposite that of the anal, 

 which latter is very near the origin of the subcaudal. Pectorals longer and 

 broader than the ventrals. Ventrals oblique on the hind margins. 



Dull grey. 



Andaman Sea, at depths of 185 to 405 fathoms. 



Halaelurus analis. 



Scylliuyn anale Ogilby, 1885, Proc. Linn. soc. N. S. W., 10, p. 445, 464. 



Scyliorhinus analis Ogilby, 1889, Proc. Linn. soc. N. S. W., ser. 2, 4, p. 180; Regan, 1908, Ann. & mag. 



nat. hist., ser. 8, 1, p. 460. 

 Catulus analis Waite, 1899, Mem. Austr. mus., 4, p. 31, pi. 2, f. 1; 1905, Rec Austr. mus., 6, p. 228, 



pi. 40 (egg). 



Body less than half of the total length. Head depressed; snout moderate, 

 bluntly rounded, length equal the distance between the nostrils. Nostrils 

 nearer to the mouth than to the tip of the snout; anterior valves short, not 



