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First dorsal begins opposite middle to hind end of ventral base, 

 length 1% to 1% in head, hind lobe right angle ; second dorsal origin 

 nearer anal origin than first dorsal origin, length 14^ to 1% ii^ head; 

 anal 1% to 2, li/^ to 14^ in subcaiidal; subcaudal height 4i/^ its length, 

 subcaudal length 1% to li/4 in head; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 5 to 61/^; pectoral ly^ to I14, width ly^ to 1% its length; ventral 

 length 11/3 to iy2 in head; claspers of larger example little developed. 



Upper surfaces brown, below paler to whitish. Upper surface 

 variously spotted or marked with pale rings, arcs, bars or blotches. 

 Ten obscure underlaid dark saddles, usually on back and tail. Dor- 

 sals and caudal largely like back, also paired fins above all with 

 some pale spots. 



Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Aus- 

 tralia, "Western Australia. Specimen in the Queensland Museum 

 from Woody Point, Moreton Bay. 



U.S.N.M. No. 29012. Port Jackson. Australian Museum. 



U.S.N.M. No. 39999. Port Jackson. Australian Museum. Length, 655 mm. 



U.S.N.M. No. 40004. Port Jackson. Australian Museum. Length, 570 mm. 



ORECTOLOBUS OGILBYI Regan 



Orectolohus ogilhyi Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 3, p. 529, 1909 

 (type locality: Torres Strait). — Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 5, 

 p. 75, 1916 (Dunk Island). — McCulloch and Whitley, Mem. Queensland 

 Mus., vol. 8, pt. 2, p. 127, 1925 (reference).— Fowler, Proc. 4th (1929) 

 Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 487, 1930 (compiled). — Whitley, Mem. Queens- 

 land Mus., vol. 10, p. 198, 1934 (reference). 



? Crossorhimis barbatus (not Gmelin) Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South 

 Wales, vol. 7, p. 597, 1883 (New Guinea). 



Crossorhimis dasypogon (not Bleeker) Ogilby, Cat. Fish. Australian Mus., 

 vol. 1, p. 9, 1888 (Torres Strait). 



Orectolobus dasypogon Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, ser. 2, vol. 4, 

 p. 184, 1889 (Torres Strait).— Kent, Great Barrier Reef, p. 307, 1893 (Thurs- 

 day Island). — Ogilby, Ann. Queensland Mus., no. 9, p. 4, 1908 (Dunk Island, 

 Queensland). — Ogilby and McCulloch, Journ. Proc. Roy. Soc. New South 

 Wales, vol. 42, p. 272, pi. 43, fig. 1, 1909 (Samarai, New Guinea; Torres 

 Strait). 



Depth 7% to subcaudal origin; head 4%. Snout 3 in head, broadly 

 rounded, flattened above; eye 7i^, 2% in snout, upper eyelid with 2 

 papillae; 6 more or less branched dermal lobes on upper lip, outer- 

 most longest; behind mouth angle to first gill opening row of 14 or 

 more branched lobes in 3 groups of which first longest; chin with 

 row of similar lobes, median longest; nasal cirrus with 2 or 3 simple 

 or bifurcated lobes on their outer margins, space between their bases 

 equal to y^ mouth width or 14 interorbital. Gill openings graduated 

 back to fourth smaller, fifth larger, first and second more widely 

 spaced than others. 



