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fig. 1, 1911 (off Port Phillip Heads).— Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. vol. 



36, p. 67, 1913 (Australia).— WAiTE, Rec. South AustraUan Mus., vol. 2, no. 



1, p. 17, fig. 8, 1921.— Fowler, Hong Kong Nat., vol. 1, p. 34, fig. 7, 1930 

 (Bleeker's record) ; Proc. 4th. (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 487, 1930 

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

 ( reference ) . 

 Parascyllimn nvchalis MoCoY, Ann. IMag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 13, p. 15, pi. 2, 



1874 (type locality: Hobsons Bay near Melbourne). 

 ParascyUium nuchal c Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 6, 



p. 362, 1881 (Port Phillip).— Ogilby, Cat. Fishes Australian Mus., pt. 1, 



p. 8, 1888 (Port Phillip). — Lucas, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, new ser., vol. 2, 



pp. 44, 1890 (reference). 



Depth 101/^ to subcaudal origin ; head 8. Snout 2% in head, bhmt- 

 ly rounded; eye 714, 3 in snout; mouth small, midway in snout length, 

 with labial folds around angle, without geneial fold across chin; 

 teeth small, tricuspid in young; nostrils large, nasoral groove ex- 

 tends to mouth, with short cirri, widely separated by preoral f renum ; 

 interorbital low, flattened. Gill openings graduated back to last 

 which largest or 1% in snout, close to fourth and both above pectoral 

 base. 



Front edge of first dorsal l-^^ in head; of second dorsal 1; anal 

 length 1% ; pectoral 1, width 1% its length which reaches half way 

 to ventral; ventral length 1^^ in head; caudal 414 in rest of body, 

 subcaudal depth little less than anal depth and notch at last fifth 

 its length. 



Body and fins clouded with brown, on former tending to form 

 cross bands. Broad blackish brown nuchal collar extends from half 

 way between eye and first gill opening to pectoral base. Back and 

 sides with numerous white spots, which are very small and crowded on 

 dark nuchal collar. Each fin with several large blackish blotches. 

 Length, 700 mm. (Ogilby; McCulloch.) 



Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, South Western Australia. 

 The type in the Paris Museum is said to measure 360 mm. 



PARASCYLLIUM MULTIMACULATUM Scott 



ParascyUium multimaculatum Scott, Pap. Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania, 1934, p. 63, 

 pi. 5, fig. 1, 1935 (type locality: Tamar Heads, northern Tasmania). 



Depth 81/4 to subcaudal origin; head to first gill opening 7%, 

 width 2yV- Snout 214 in head ; eye 5, 2% in snout ; preoral length 

 ^% in mouth width ; lower labial fold extends half way to middle of 

 jaw, continued well round angle of mouth; longitudinal fold beneath 

 eye ; nasal cirrus short, fairly thick, reaching lip ; exterior nasal fold 

 with short blunt lobe at hind external angle; 7 closely set rows of 

 teeth above mesially, each tooth small, elongated, bulbous just above 

 base, terminal half flattened, acute; lower teeth similar but with 

 basal bulb sometimes forming pair of incipient lateral cusps; first 



