FISHES OF THE PHILIPPIlSrE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 79 



Depth 7% to 7% to siibcaudal origin ; head 4:% to 5%, width 1 to 

 1%. Snout 2 to 2% in head, broad and obtuse as seen from above; 

 eye 8I/2 to 8%, 4 in snout, 3% to 3% in interorbital ; dentary width 

 3% to 334 in head, with long labial folds around each mouth angle 

 but not meeting at chin; teeth in 18 to 20 rows in jaws, with rather 

 narrow triangular cusp and small cusp each side at base, edges all 

 entire; nostrils greatly nearer mouth than snout tip; front nasal 

 valve with elongate cirrus twice eye length; hind nasal valve with 

 fold on outer side of nostril and continued in fold on outer edge of 

 nasoral groove with end free at mouth angle; interorbital 2% to 

 3xV in head, depressed. Gill openings small, last deepest, fourth 

 close to last, third to fifth above pectoral base. Spiracle % ^ye, 

 behind and close below eye. 



Scales simple, broadly triangular, each with median keel. 



First dorsal origin above middle of ventral base, close behind 

 ventral bases in young, length 1% in head; second dorsal origin 

 midway between first dorsal origin and anal origin, length 1 to 1% 

 in head ; anal placed entirely behind second dorsal, length 2% to 2% 

 in subcaudal or II/2 to 2 in head; subcaudal equals head to fourth 

 gill opening in young, larger in adults; least depth of caudal pe- 

 duncle 4 in head; pectoral 1 to 11/^, width ly^ to 1^2 its length; ventral 

 length 1 to 1% in head. 



Largely dark brown, little paler below. About 11 obscure and 

 slightly darker transverse bands, much wider than pale interspaces. 



Queensland, New South Wales. Specimen in the Queensland 

 Museum from Woody Point, Moreton Bay, 



U.S.N.M. No. 40025. Port Jackson. Australian Museum. Length, 653 mm. 



As Chiloscyllium ocellaUim. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 40036. Port Jackson. Australian Museum. Length, 191 mm. 



Subgenus Brachaelurus Ogilby 



BRACHAELURUS COLCLOUGHI Ogilby 



Brachaelurus colcloughi OoHiBY, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol. 21, p. 4, 1908 

 (type locality: Mud Island, Moreton Bay). — Fowlee, Proc. 4th (1929) 

 Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 486, 1930 (reference). 



Brachaelurus {Heteroscyllinm) colcloughi Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 36, p. 48, 1913 (Queensland, Moreton Bay). 



Heteroscyllium colcloughi Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 2, p. 455, 1908 

 (note). — Ogilby and McCuixoch, Journ. Proc. Roy. Soc. New South Wales, 

 vol. 42, p. 284, 1909 (type; Queensland). — Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., 

 vol. 5, p. 76, 1916 (Moreton Bay). — McCuixoch and Whitley, Mem. Queens- 

 land Mus., vol. 8, pt. 2, p. 127, 1925 (reference). — Whitlptt, Mem. Queens- 

 land Mus., vol. 10, pt. 4, p. 198, 1934 (reference). 



Depth 7% in total length; head 53/5, width 11/2- Eye 6% in head; 

 preoral length 3; mouth width 2yio; front nasal angle equidistant 



