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least depth of caudal peduncle 6^4; pectoral ly^, width 1% its 

 length; ventral length li/^ in head. 



Body light brown above, more w^hitish below. Ten dark brown 

 saddlelike bands across back, all variegated with irregular pale spots 

 or blotches sam^ shade as general body color; intervening pale areas 

 clouded or irregularly marked with dark areas, blotches, spots or 

 cloudings. Dorsals dark brown, with paler diffusions. Paired fins 

 dark brown above, with some pale spots basally and marginally. 

 Under surfaces of paired fins with brownish shades. 



China, Japan. The characters of this species were first made 

 known by Regan, and he showed that it differs from the Australian 

 Orectolohus maculatiLs in the absence of papilliform projections 

 above the &ye ; nasal cirrus with sunple branch ; 2 or 3 simple dermal 

 lobes above upper lip followed by 3 or 4 near mouth angle, first and 

 last of which bifid and by 2 short, broad, terminally notched ones at 

 side of head. 



U.S.N.M. No. 22608. Awa, Japan. Japanese Government. Length, 540 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 50725. Hakata Jordan and Snyder. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 75952. "Japan." P. L. Jouy. 



ORECTOLOBUS MACULATUS (Bonnaterre) 



Squalus maculatus Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encyclop. Ichth., p. 8, 1788 (type locality: 

 La mer du Sud). — Andrew Smith, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1837, p. 85 

 (reference). 



Scyliorhinus maculatus Blainyhxe, Bull. Soc. Philom., Paris, 1816, p. 121 (name 

 only). 



Scylliuin macidatum Cantor, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. IS, p. 1373, 1849 

 (Singapore). 



Orectolohus maculatus Ogilby and McCulloch, Journ. Proc. Roy. Soc. New 

 South Wales, vol. 42, p. 273, pi. 42, fig. 2, 1909 (Woody Point, Moreton Bay, 

 Queensland). — Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 52, 1913 (Aus- 

 tralian Seas). — Ogilby, Commerc. Fish. Fisher. Queensland, p. 45, 1915 

 (Moreton Bay) ; Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 5, p. 75, 1916 (Moreton Bay). — 

 Waite, Rec. South Australian Mus., vol. 2, no. 1, p. 15, fig. 15, 1921. — Mc- 

 CtTLLocH and Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 8, pt. 2, p. 127, 

 1925 (reference). — McCulloch, Fishes New South Wales, ed. 2, p. 7, pi. 1, 

 fig. 15a, 1927.— Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 17, 1928 (compiled) ; 

 Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 487, 1930 (reference).— Whit- 

 ley, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 10, pt. 4, p. 198, 1934 (reference). 



Squalus barbatus Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Linn., vol, 1, p. 1493, 1789 (type locality: 

 New Holland= Sydney) (on Barhu Broussonet, Mem. Acad. Sci. Paris, 1780, 

 p. 657, no. 7; New Holland). — Walbaum, Artedi Pise, vol. 3, p. 515, 1792 

 (copied). — Lac^pIde, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 1, p. 246, 1798 (Sydney, New 

 South Wales).— Schnehder, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 128, 1801 (New Hol- 

 land). — Bennett, Gatherings Nat. Australasia, p. 32, 1860 (Botany Bay). 



Scyliorhinus barbatus Blainvuxe, Bull. Soc. Philom., Paris, 1816, p. 121 (name 

 only). 



