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7. ORECTOLOBUS BARBATUS (Gmelin). 



Squalns fxtrlxifntf Gmelis, Syst. Nat., 1788, p. 1493; New Holland (after Rarbu 

 of BrousHonet, Act. I'aris, 1780, p. 657). 



Croxsorhimix Ixtrhatm Mri>LKR and Henle, Plagiost., 1837, p. 21, pi. v.— Schlegel, 

 Fauna Japonica, Pois.s., 1850, p. 301; Nagasaki. — Dumekil, Elasmobr., I, 

 1870, p. 338; Australia, Japan, China.— Gunther, Cat. Fish, VIII, 1870, 

 p. 414; Japan, Tasmania, Australia. — Macleay, Australian Fishes, 1881, ji. 

 301; Port Jackson. 



Sqnahis inaculahin Bonnaterre, F>ncycl. Meth., 1788, p. 8 (after Broussonet; 

 Coll. Capt. Cook). 



Squahis ajypendiculattis Shaw, Naturalists' Miscellany, 1809, p. 727. 



Head 6i in length; depth 9; deptli of body H in head; depth of head 

 about 1| in its lonotb; U^ngth of head l/t in its width; eye It^ in head; 

 2 in spirach^; i)^ in snout; 4^ in interorbital space; snout 8 in head, It^ 1 

 in interorbital space; If in space between spiracles; width of mouth 2 

 in bivadth of head; pectoral about li; base of ventral If in length of 

 pectoral; caudal peduncle 8 in space between spiracles. 



Body elongate, very much depressed and broadened anteriorly; tail 

 rather narrow, compressed, tapering. Head very l)road, flattened, 

 its breadth greater than length; snout broad, protile very l)lunt, trun- 

 cate, with rounded edges, upper surface flat; eyes very small, superior, 

 superorbital ridges slight!}' elevated and broadly flattened; jaws nearly 

 e(|[ual, upper projecting b(?yond but little; teeth without cusps, sharp, 

 elongate, pointed; lips ver}'^ thick, fleshy, fringed inside; nostrils con- 

 fluent with mouth, lateral, far apart, inferior; mouth with deep labial 

 groove at corner, which is a little in front of eye; tongue broad, flat, 

 compressed, little free in front; sides of head and snout each with 9 

 compressed dermal flaps or appendages of difl'erent sizes, first pair 

 from nostrils arp largest; interorbital space like rest of top of head, ■ 

 flat. Spiracles very large below and behind eyes. Gill-opening rather ( 

 small, above pectorals. 



Scales small, rough when stroked backwards. 



First dorsal the larger, higher than second; space between its base 

 and that of second two-thirds length of its own base, and its origin 

 over posterior part of base of anal; origin of second dorsal nearer 

 origin of ventral than tip of anal; anal smallest, beginning directly 

 >)ehind second dorsal; pectorals large, broad, margin truncate; ven- 

 trals nearer origin of anal than flrst gill-opening; caudal moderate, 

 with a notch near tip, equal to space between origin of tirst dorsal and 

 l)ase of second posteriorly. 



Color in spirits pale brown, whitish beneath; upper surface beauti- 

 fully marbled and variegated with darker brown; crosswise about ten 

 broad dark bai's made up of similar mottlings; a whitish spot behind 

 the corner of spiracle. 



Length 33 inches (84 cm. 2 mm.). 



Described from a female taken at Hakata. 



