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cirrus. Lower lip well developed, continuous or interrupted in 

 the middle. Teeth small, triangular, with or without lateral 

 cusps. The two last gill-openings close together. 



Indian and Australian Seas. 



1091. ClIILOSCYLLIUM OCELLATUM, L. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes VIII., p. 410.— Muller & Henle, p. 16.— 



Dam. Elasmobr., p. 326. 



The lower labial fold is not continued across the symphysis. 

 The first gill-opening narrower than the second, scarcely wider 

 than the orbit. Mouth much nearer to the end of the snout 

 than to the eye. Body with scattered round black spots ; a 

 large black white edged ocellus above the pectoral fin. 



Cape York, Port Darwin, Torres Straits. Length from two 

 to three feet. 



1092. Chiloscyllium trispeculare, Bicharcls. 



Toy. Erebus & Terror, p. 43, pi. 28.— Gunth., Cat Fishes VIIL, 



p. 411. 



The lower labial fold is not continued across the symphysis. 

 The first gill-opening is as wide as the second and distinctly 

 wider than the orbit. Mouth much nearer to the end of the 

 snout than to the eye. Head and body covered with small 

 brown spots, which on the hinder part of the trunk are arranged 

 in small rings ; some indistinct dark bands across the back ; a 

 large black white edged ocellus with one or two smaller ocelli 

 behind it, above the pectoral fin. 



North-west Australia. (Eichardson.) Length twenty -two 



inches. 



1093. Chiloscyllium modestum, Gunth. 



Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 654, pi. 54. 

 The lower labial fold is not continued across the symphysis. 

 Mouth at the lower surface of the snout, at some distance from 



