1215 
Depth 17 to 18; head 8 2/3 to 10 1/4, 4 to 4 2/3 to 
vent, width 3 to 3 1/5 in its length; combined head and 
trunk 1 1/8 to 1 1/2 in tail. Snout 6 to 6 2/5 in head; 
eye 7 1/4 to 7 3/4, 1 1/5 to 1 1/4 in snout, 1 to 1 1/8 
in interorbital; mouth cleft extends 1/2 to 3/5 eye diamet¬ 
er behind eye, length 2 1/5 to 3 in head; teeth conic, on 
maxillaries biserial or biserial at least anteriorly, like¬ 
wise mandibular teeth; about dozen large short, conic teeth 
on premaxillary; patch of small biserial granular teeth on 
vomer; interorbital 6 2/3 to 7 1/4, loiv, little convex. 
Gill opening 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 in snout, median in body depth. 
Dorsal origin at last 1/4 in postrictal space, fin 
height 4 2/5 to 4 1/2 in head; anal little lower than dor¬ 
sal. 
Uniform dark irown or brownish dusky. Iris gray. Whit¬ 
ish blotch below eye and another at rictus often present. 
Fins like body color. Sometimes under surfaces of head and 
trunk paler brown than above. 
East Indies, Philippines, Rui Kui, Japan, Polynesia. 
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13717. Alimango Bay, Burias Island. March 5, 1909. 
Length 130 mm. 
11011. Ragay River, Ragay Gulf, Luzon. March 10, 
1909. Length 255 mm. 
