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fins with many creamy white spots, which tend to form rings. 

 Length, 414 mm. (McCulloch.) 

 South Australia. 



Subgenus Aulohalabxurus Fowler 



Labial folds greatly developed, extend along lower jaw nearly to 

 symphysis. 



HALAELURUS LABIOSUS (Waite) 



Catulus labiosus Waite, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 6, pt. 2, p. 57, fig. 23, 1905 

 (moutli) (type locality: Freemantle, West Australia). 



Ealaelurus laMosus Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 88, 1913 (Aus- 

 tralia). — Ogilby, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 5, p. 77, 1916 (Cape York). — 

 McCulloch and Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 8, pt. 2, p. 128, 1925 

 (reference). — Fowler, Proc. 4tli (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 485, 

 1930 (reference) ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 85, p. 237, 1934 

 (name). 



Aulohalaelurus labiosus Whitley, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 19, no. 2, p. 153, 

 fig. 1, 1934 (type) ; Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 10, pt. 4, p. 198, 1934 (ref- 

 erence). 



Squalus maculatus (not Bonnaterre) ScHNEaoER, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 130, 1801 

 (type locality: Oriental Ocean). 



Scyliorhinus maculatus Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom., Paris, p. 121, 1816 

 (name). — Regan*, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 1, p. 462, 1908 (Austra- 

 lia; note on Giinther's specimen). 



Scylliorhinus maculatus Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, ser. 2, vol. 

 4, p. 179, 1889 (northwest coast of Australia; Bramble Bay; Port Darwin). 



Scyllium maculatum Gunther, Cat. Fishes British Mus. vol. 8, p. 401, 1870 

 [Bramble Bay (=Bramble Bay, Queensland)]. — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 New South Wales, vol. 2, p. 366, 1878 (Port Darwin) ; vol. 5, p. 297, 1880 

 (Port Darwin, Port Jackson); vol. 6, p. 361, 1881 (Port Darwin; Port 

 Jackson). 



f Squalus cuvier (Peron and LeSueur) LeSueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, vol. 2, p. 351, 1822 (type locality : Northwest coast New Holland). 



Body elongate, vent before midlength; head 7% in total length, 

 much depressed, width considerably more than length in advance of 

 spiracles. Snout 3l^ in head; eye 4%; mouth width li/4, long labial 

 fold around angles, fold of upper jaw extended anteriorly beyond 

 lobe of nasal valve to short distance of nostril; lower labial folds 

 approach each other to within length of base of one of nasal lobes; 

 teeth in several rows in both jaws, lower larger, all with small cusp 

 each side; nasal valves separate, each produced into lobe directed 

 outward and backward, space between two slightly more than basal 

 width of one lobe, without cirrus; interorbital 2% in head. Gill 

 openings narrow. 



Skin rough. 



First dorsal origin above hind edge of vent or over hind portion 

 of ventral bases; hind end of anal base below middle of second dor- 



