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Family 0RECT0L0BID/5{. 



Gem's Pakascyllium, can. 



Parasc vii.iiM \^\RIOI,A■r^M, Duvieril. 



(Plate ii., fig', i.) 



Heniiscyllium variolafuni, Dunieril, Rev. et. Mag. Zool., 



1853, p. 121, pi. iii., fig. I. 

 Parascyllkim variolaium, Ogilby and INIcCulloch, Proc. Roy. 



Soc. N.S.Wales, xlii., 190S, p. 269. 



Two fine female examples were taken off Port Phillip Heads 

 in November, igoq. 



Pakascyllii'm coi.i.akk, Ramsay and Ogilby. 



Collared Cat Shark. 



rarasLylliiini coUare, Ramsay and Ogilby-, Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S. Wales (2), iii., 18S9, p. 1310; id., Ogilbv and 

 McCulloch, Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S. Wales, xlii., 1908, 

 p. 267. 



Three males from Shoalhaven Bight, New South Wales, 

 I 5-45 fathoms. 



PaKASCYLI.RM FERRUGINELM, Sp. )1(>V. 



(Plate ii., fig. 2, and fig. 2.) 



Head to last gill-opening, 5.8 in the length, its width if in 

 its length. Eye 9 in the head, 2.S in the snout which is t,.2 

 in the head. Interorbital space almost equal to the snout. 

 Preoral portion of head equal to half the width of the mouth 

 v\hich is 1.3 in the snout. 



Body elongate, somewhat depressed anteriorly, cylindrical 

 posteriorly. Head much depressed with its upper surface 

 flat ; snout broadly rounded, obtusely conical in profile and 

 increasing in width backwards. Eyes lateral with a prominent 

 fold below. vSpiracle minute and situated half an eye-diameter 

 trom the infero-posterior angle of the eye. Gill-openings in- 

 creasing regularly in size from the first to the fourth, the 

 last Aery large, 35 the width of the first and more than half 

 as long as the snout ; the last two are placed over the base of 

 the pectoral. Nasal cirrus short and thick, just reaching to 

 the lips ; exterior nasal fold with two or three small lobes 

 posteriorly, the outer the longest and pointed. Lower labial 

 fold extending about half way towards the middle of the jaw 

 and continued round the an<>le of the mouth. Teeth similar in 



