180 LIST OF THE AUSTRALIAN PAL^ICHTEYES, 



*23. S. ANALis, Ogilhy, sp. Port Jackson, and its vicinity 

 {Austr. Mus.), common; the "Spotted Dog-fish." I 

 have been unable to ascertain the northern limit of the 

 range of this species, which is at a glance distinguishable 

 from the preceding by the non-confluence of the nasal 

 valves ; it should, however, be compared with the Japanese 

 S. buergeri, to which it seems to be nearly related. Mr. 

 Johnston in his " Catalogue of Tasmanian Fishes " in- 

 cludes S. maculatios, and states that the " nasal valves are 

 confluent " ; this would of course be conclusive evidence as 

 to the non-identity of the Tasmanian with my species, but 

 as his short diagnosis is evidently taken word for word 

 from Dr. Giinther's catalogue description of the true S. 

 maculatus — Mr. Johnston not having personally examined 

 a Tasmanian specimen — I consider it highly probable that 

 my species has been mistaken for the northern one. 



24. S. LATICEPS, Dnm., sp. Tasmania. 



Note. — This Dog-fish has a very wide range in the 

 Pacific, having been recorded as abundant in New Zealand 

 waters (Sherrin, Handbook of the Fishes of N.Z., p. 121), 

 and more recently from the Californian coast by Messrs. 

 Jordan and Gilbert. 



GiNGLYMOSTOMA, Miiller and Henle (1837). 



*25. G. CONCOLOR, Riipp.j sp. Port Moresby, New Guinea 

 (Macleay). In the British Museum Catalogue of Fishes, 

 viii. p. 409, Dr. Giinther mentions as adult an example 

 which measures twenty-eight inches only, but he unfortu- 

 nately omits to mention the sex of the specimen ; I 

 hardly think that the term "adult" can be correctly 

 applied to this example, since a male from the Solomon 

 Islands, in the collection of the Australian Museum, though 

 measuring no less than sixty-six inches, is presumedly 

 immature, the claspers being but little developed. Of 

 course there is a possibility that the individual in question 



