1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 13/5 



Chiloscyllium plagiosum, Miiller und Henle, 18 (Young.)* 

 Chiloscyllium plagiosum, Var 1, Miiller und Henle, 18. 



{Young.) 

 Chiloscyllium plagiosum, Var 2, Miiller und Henle, 18. 



(Young.) 

 Russell : p. 10, " Vielleicht eine Varietat," Miiller und Henle, 



20. (Adult.) 

 Chiloscyllium plagiosum, Richardson: Report, 1845, 194. 

 Yu tokay of the Malays. 

 (Newborn and very young.) Ground-colour above white or buff, 

 with numerous black transverse bands, preponderating over the ground- 

 colour, which appears on the head and back like transverse buff bands, 

 each with a transversal brown line in the centre. On the sides and fins 

 the ground-colour is reduced to a number of rounded spots, each with 

 a central brown dot. Lower surface of the body and horizontal fins 

 whitish, of the tail pale blackish. Iris black, with a silvery line border- 

 ing the black pupil, which is linear and ascending obliquely backwards. 

 Total length : 4 to 6f inch. 



(Older.) Ground-colour ash-grey or isabella coloured, with (11, 12 

 or 13) pale brownish black transverse bands, broad on the back, nar- 

 rower on the sides ; the margins darker than the bands, or with dis- 

 tant dark dots ; fins with dark and light spots ; abdominal surface 

 whitish. Iris silvery ash-grey or isabella coloured. (Russell, XVI., 

 Bohee Sorrak. — Scy Ilium plagiosum, Bennett. — Var. 1, Miiller und 

 Henle.) 



Or: 

 Ground-colour ash-grey or nankin yellow with transverse brownish 

 bands edged with black ; within the bands double transverse rows of 

 black dots ; single such between the bands ; on the sides and fins 

 black rings, each with a central black spot. (Scyllium ornatwn, Gray. 

 — Var. 2, Miiller und Henle. — Chiloscyllium plagiosum, Richardson. — ) 

 Total length : 7-f to 14f inch. 



* Var. 3 and Var. 4, Miiller und Henle, are founded upon two unpublished draw- 

 ings of General Hardwicke. Both have evidently been taken from specimens in 

 the infantile livery, and are no more constant Varieties than Var. 2 and 3 of M.M. 

 Miiller und Henle. 



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