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CHILOSCYLLIUM PUNCTATUM, Miller and Henle. 
Plate xuuit., fig. 2. 
‘**Brown-banded Cat Shark.’’ 
Chiloscyllium punctatum, Miller and Henle, Plagiost., p. 18, pl. 
iii, 1841, Java; Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Gen., xxiv, 1852, 
Plagiost., p. 22; Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, 1867, p. 413, 
Java; Giinther, B.M. Cat. Fish., viii, 1870, p.413; Klunzinger, 
Sitzb. Akad. Wren., \xxx, i, 1880, p. 427, Port Darwin, N.T.; 
Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc., V.S.W., xiv, 1889, p. 181; Regan, 
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1908, ii, p. 360. 
Body slender, its depth 10°65 in the total length. Head 
moderate, its width 1°40, its depth 1°90 in its length, which 
is 1°25 in the trunk and 5°85 in the total length. Snout 
broadly rounded, depressed anteriorly, becoming declivous 
about midway between its extremity and the eye, its length 
3°65 in that of the head. Anterior angle of nostril nearer 
to the mouth than to the tip of the snout. Internasal space 
1°30 in the width of the mouth; nasal cirrus about 1°50 in 
the diameter of the eye. Mouth much nearer to the tip of 
the snout than to the eye, its width 3°40, the space between 
the outer angles of the labial grooves 2°45 in the length of 
the head. Hye nearer to the first gill-slit than to the tip 
of the snout, its longitudinal diameter 7°35 in the length of 
the head. Interorbital region convex, its width 2°75 in the 
length of the head. Spiracle as large as the eye. Branchial 
region 2°65 times the diameter of the eye; width of first gill- 
slit equal to the diameter of the eye and about 1°35 in that of 
the last slit. Length of head and trunk 1°50 in that of the 
tail. First dorsal fin originating above the middle of the 
base of the ventral, its distance from the tip of the snout 
2°65 in the total length; anterior border of fin convex, its 
outer angle broadly rounded; outer and posterior borders 
feebly emarginate, the intervening angle pointed and 
slightly exceeding a right angle; length of hinder border 
