1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 1379 



Squalus longicaudus, Ibid. 1496. 

 Zebra Shark, Shaw : Nat. Misc. 434. 

 Squale tigre, Lacepede, I. 249. 



Squalus fasciatus, Shaw: V. 148. PI. 148. (Newborn.) 

 Squalus fasciatus, Bloch-Schn. 130. 

 Russell : XVIII. Poollee Makum. (Newborn.) 

 La roussette tigre'e, Diet, des Sc. Nat. No. 33, Fig. 2. 

 Scyllium heptagonum, Riippell: Neue Wirb. 61, Tab. 17, Fig. 1. 



(Young.) 

 Scyllium heptagonum, Riippell: Chondropt. 1. Tab. 17. Fig. 1. 

 Stegostoma fasciatum, Muller und Henle, 24, Taf. (Young). 

 Stegostoma fasciatum, Var. 1, Muller uud Henle, 25. (Young.) 

 Stegostoma fasciatum, Var. 2, Muller und Henle, 25. (Young.) 

 Stegostoma fasciatum, Var. 3, Muller und Henle, 25. (Mature?) 

 Stegostoma carinatum, Blyth : Joum. As. Soc. XVI. 725, PI. XXV. 



bis, Fig. 1. (Young.) 



Yu tokay of the Malays. 



(Newborn and very young.) Ground-colour above yellowish white 

 with numerous broad black transverse bands, preponderating over the 

 ground-colour, which on the head and fins is reduced to single rounded 

 or oval spots ; lower surface of the body and horizontal fins yellowish 

 white. Iris black with a silvery line bordering the black linear pupil, 

 which ascends obliquely backwards. (Russell, XVIII. Poollee Makum. 

 ^-Var. 1, Muller und Henle). — Total length : 12 to 13 inch. 



(Older.) Ground-colour reddish- or brownish yellow, more con- 

 spicuous than in the newborn, particularly on the fins, where the brown 

 colour is broken up into numerous rounded spots, (on the pectoral fins 

 one or two large rings, with a central spot ;) transversal bands reddish 

 brown, with broad snuff-coloured or black margins ; in some the bands 

 of the head and body with numerous dark brown rounded spots. Iris 

 like the ground-colour, but silvery. (Var. 2, Muller und Henle. — ) 

 Total length : 1 ft. 10 to 3 ft. 



(Mature ? Adult ?) Ground-colour whitish brown ; head from 

 behind the eyes, body and fins with numerous snuff-coloured rounded 

 spots, which are somewhat indistinct on the fins. (Scyllium hepta- 

 gonum, Riippell. — Var. 3, Muller und Henle. — Stegostoma carinatum, 

 Blyth.—) Total length : 3 ft. to 5 ft. 7 inch. 



