364 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



its extremity, but nearer to the latter than to the eye. Dorsal 

 fins sub-equal in size, with the angles not produced, close 

 together, the distance between them being somewhat more than 

 one-half of the length of the base of the first. Origin of the 

 first dorsal above the middle of the base of the ventrals. 

 Uniform brown, darker on the back than on the sides. 



Queensland. (Gunth.) Length twenty and a half inches. 



1094. Chiloscyllium furvum, n. sp, 



Lower labial fold divided at the symphysis. Nasal cirrus 

 rather long, close to the snout and distant from the mouth. 

 Upper lip more than half as long as wide. Snout rounded and 

 somewhat depressed. The spiracle behind and beneath the eye, 

 very large, nearly round and surrounded by a distinct fold. The 

 eyes are small and oblong. The gills are narrow, the last much 

 wider than the others, but very little closer to the fourth than 

 the preceding one. Pectoral fins rounded behind. The two 

 dorsal fins are of about equal size, very nearly the length of 

 their base apart, and truncate posteriorly. The skin is very 

 finely shagreened and glossy, of a reddish-brown above and on 

 the sides, with indistinct darker cross bars, and scattered small 

 yellowish or whitish spots ; beneath the colour is yellowish ; 

 there is a distinct fold along each side of the back to the tail. 



Port Jackson. Length from two to three feet. 



Genus Crossorhinus, Muller & Henle. 



Two dorsal fins, without spines, — the first behind the ventrals, 

 the second in advance of the anal, which is very close to the 

 caudal. Tail rather short. Eye small. Spiracle in a wide 

 oblique slit, behind and below the eye. Nasal and buccal 

 cavities confluent. Head broad, flat, with the snout vory obtuse ; 

 mouth wide, nearly anterior. A free nasal cirrus ; sides of the 

 head with skinny appendages. Upper and lower lips well 

 developed. Anterior teeth rather largo, long, and slender, 



