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NOTES ON, AND DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES. NO. 2. 



By Allan R. McCulloch, Zoologist, Australian Museum. 



(By permission of the Trustees of the Australian Museum). 



(Plates xxxvii.-xli. and three Text-figures.) 



The following paper is a collection of miscellaneous notes and descriptions 

 similar to that of Part 1, published in These Proceedings, Vol. xl., pp. 260-277. 

 Most of the fishes dealt with have been hitherto insufficiently described and 

 imperfectly known, and are therefore here figured and redescribed in detail. 

 The synonymy of several has been studied, and is presented in a new form, 

 while others are recorded from Australian waters for the first time. One is 

 regarded as a new species. 



Family CARCHARHINIDAE. 



Carcharhinds macrurus Ramsay & Ogilby. (Plate xxxvii., figs. 1-4). 



Whaler. 



? Carcharias hrachyurus, Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., viii., 1870, p. 369 — 

 Australian specimen only (vide Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, (2), iii., 

 1889, p. 1768). 



Carcharias brachyurus, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, v., 1880, p. 96; 

 Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vi., 1881, p. 352 (not description) ; 

 Ogilby, Cat. Fish. N.S. Wales, vi., 1886, p. 1; Waite, Mem. N.S. Wales 

 Nat. Club, ii., 1904, p. 7. (Not C. hrachyurus Giinther). 



Carcharias macrurus, Ramsay & Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, (2), ii., 

 1887, pp. 163, 1024; and iii., 1889, p. 1768. 



Carcharinus hrachyurus, Waite, Rec. S. Austr. Mus., ii., 1, 1921, p. 12, fig. 8. 

 (Not C. hrachyurus Giinther). 



Body rather slender, its depth before the doreal fin 5.6 in the length to the 

 base of the tail ; tlie length from the snout to the front margin of the vent is 

 1.8 in the total. Head, to the level of the first gill-opening, 2.6 in the trunk, 

 and 5.1 in the total length. Prooral length 0.1 greater than the width of the 

 mouth. 



Snout rather long, obtusely pointed in the horizontal plane. Nostrils 

 nearer to the mouth than to the end of the snout, and separated by a space 

 which is equal to the distance of their inner angles from the end of the snout. 



