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p. 427, 18S0 (Port Darwin). — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 

 vol. 6, p. 363, 1881 (Cape York, Port Darwin, Torres Strait) ; vol. 7, p. 597, 

 1883 (New Guinea). — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 7, 

 p. 597, 1883 (reference).— Meyee, Anal. Soc. Espan., Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 

 14, p. 48, 1885 (Kordo, Mysore). — Oghby, Proc, Linn. Soc. New South 

 Wales, vol. 10, p. 464, 1885 (Port Jackson) ; Cat. Fishes Australian Mus., 

 pt. 1, p. 8, 1888 (Port Jackson, South East New Guinea, Port Moresby). — 

 Steindachner, Abh. Senck. Ges., vol. 25, p. 463, 1900 (Ternate). — Regan, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Loudon, 1908, p. 359 (Cape York, Sunday Island, Solomons, 

 North West Australia).— Ogilby and McChlloch, Journ. Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 New South Wales, vol. 42, p. 290, 1909 (Murray Island, Torres Strait, off 

 Cooktown, Masthead Island, off Port Curtis, Port Jackson ?). — GtJNTHEB, 

 Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, pt. 17, p. 488, 1910 (Solomons). — Ogilby, Mem. 

 Queensland Mus., vol. 5, p. 76, 1916 (Dunk Island and Green Island, Cairns). 

 — McCtJLLOCH and Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 8, pt. 2, p. 128, 

 1925 (reference). — Whitley, Australian Zool., vol. 4, pt. 4, p. 228, 1926 

 (Northwest Islet, Queensland) ; vol. 16, no. 1, p. 4, 1927 (Michaelmas Cay, 

 Queensland). 



Scyllium ocellatum Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 16, p. 726, pi. 25, fig. 

 2, 1847 (Australia). 



Squalus oculatus Geay, Narr. Surv. Coasts Australia, King, Pisces, vol. 2 

 ("1827"), append., p. 436, April 18, 1926 (type locality: Australia). (On 

 Banks and Solander.) 



Hemiscyllhim oculatum DuMfiEiL, Rev. Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 5, p. 119, 1853 

 (collection Banks) ; Hist. Nat. Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 326, 1865 (type of Brous- 

 sonet; specimen from Banks). 



Depth 113^ to 121/2 to subcaudal origin; head 8 to 81/5, width 11/5 

 to V/^. Snout 2 in head, broadly obtuse with swollen appearance as 

 viewed above; eye 6, 3l^ to 3i/^ in snout, 2l^ to 21/2 in interorbital ; 

 dentary width 2% to 4 in head, with short labial folds marked by 

 deep grooves around mouth angles but not meeting on symphyseal 

 surface of lower jaw; teeth in 38 rows above 30 rows below, small, 

 tricuspid; nostrils much nearer mouth than snout tip; front nasal 

 valves reaching mouth, conic thick cirrus scarcely long as valve or 

 114 in eye, internarial space about equals eye; hind nasal valve with 

 fold outside nostril and ends in fold on outer edge of groove reach- 

 ing mouth angle; lower lip not free across symphysis; interorbital 

 21/^ to 2% in head, depressed. Last gill opening longest, close be- 

 hind fourth, third to fifth above pectoral base. Spiracle % of eye, 

 close below and about half its length posterior to eye. 



Scales triangular, each with median keel. 



First dorsal begins well behind ventrals, length 1% to 1% in head, 

 hind lobe rather narrowly triangular; second dorsal begins nearer 

 anal origin than first dorsal origin, length 1% to li/4 in head; anal 

 1% to 1% in subcaudal lobe, height 3l^ to 4^4 its length ; subcaudal 

 equals head to second gill opening, height 6 in its length ; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 3 to 31/2 in head to first gill opening; pectoral 

 width 1% to 1% its length, which equals head or head to second 



