184 LIST OF THE AUSTRALIAN PAL^ICHTHYES, 



the pierf and so exposed to the weather for an indefinite 

 length of time, which may have raised blisters which no 

 stretching of the skin could eradicate. As I have 

 examined only this one specimen in very bad condition 

 it would be inexpedient for me to give an authoritative 

 opinion as to the identity or non-identity of the two forms, 

 but I feel pretty sure that a characteristic series of 

 both would indubitably demonstrate their specific identity. 

 Under the circumstances, however, this is merely an 

 opinion founded on that single specimen, and has to be 

 verified by the examination of a more extended series. 



]}^ote. — Dr. Peters could hardly have devised a more 

 inappropriate specific name for this shark. In the first 

 place all the members of the genus are furnished with 

 tentacular appendages, and in the second place C. harbatus 

 and C. dasypoyon, both indubitably good species, are 

 much more amply provided with these appendages, so that 

 as a fact Dr. Peters' species instead of being ^mr excellence 

 the " Tentaculated Wobbegong," as its name would 

 imply, is exactly the reverse. 



*35. C. DASYPOGON, Blk. Torres Straits (Austr. Mus.) 



HETERODONTID^. 



Heterodontus, Plain ville (1816). 



36. H. PHiLLiPi, Bl. Schn., s]). Coast of New South Wales, 

 common at least as far north as Proken Pay, above which 

 I have been unable to trace it, though it doubtless occurs. 

 Coast of Victoria; Port Phillip, common (^McCoy). 

 South Australia {Brit. Mus.). Tasmania, " common 

 in the Derwent and Tamar" (Johnston). For reasons 

 given previously I am obliged to adopt Plainville's generic 



+ Found lying on the Semaphore Jetty about one year ago. It was 

 caught by one of the fishermen, and thrown away as being useless {Zietz^ 

 in lit.). 



