BY W. MACLEAY, F.L.S. 365 



■without lateral lobes ; the lateral teeth tricuspid, smaller, forming 

 a few series only. The fourth and fifth gill-openings close 

 together. 



Australia, Japan. 



1095. Ckossoehinus barbatus, L. 



Muller & Henle, p. 21, pi. 5.— Gunth., Cat. Fishes, VIII., 



p. 414. 



About seven skinny simple or partly bifid lobes on each side 

 of the head, five of which are near the angle of the mouth. 

 Very minute barbels across the chin are sometimes absent. 

 Distance between the two dorsal fins equal to the length of the 

 base of the first. Upper parts brown, marbled with grey ; a 

 whitish spot behind the spiracle. 



Port Jackson, (the " Wobbigong of the natives,) Tasmania, 

 South Australia, &c. Length five to seven feet. 



1096. Ckossoehinus tentaculatus, Peters. 



Gunth., Cat. Pishes VIII., p. 414. 



A single flat tentacle at the angle of the mouth, another on the 

 side of the throat. Chin without barbels. Distance between the 

 two dorsal fins much less than the length of the base of either. 

 Back with very broad brown cross-bands, the posterior encircling 

 the tail entirely. A white spot behind the spiracle. 



Cape York. 



Family V. CESTEACIONTIDiE. 



Characters of the single genus. 



Genus Heterodontus, Blainv. 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, Vol. III., p. 309. 

 The Pacific Ocean. 



