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11/4, "width 11/4 of its length; ventral 1% in head; claspers of young 

 male not extended beyond ventral fins. 



Brown above to whitish below. About 8 obscure or diffuse 

 slightly darker blotches on back. Back, also head above, with scat- 

 tered small and still darker spots. Dorsals and caudal all brownish 

 like back, also upper surfaces of paired fins. 



New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia. 



U.S.N.M. No. 40016. Port Jackson. Australian Museum. Length, 612 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 40027. Port Jackson. Australian Museum. Length, 515 mm. 



HALAELURUS GARMANI Fowler 



FiGUKE 1 



Halaelurus garmani Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 85, p. 235, 

 fig. 1, 1934 (type locality: East Indies). 



Depth 61/^ to subcaudal origin; head 5, width 11/^. Snout 2% in 

 head, broad and obtuse as seen from above; eye 4, II/2 in snout, 2 



FIGDEB 1. — 'Halaelurus garmani Fowler: Type (U.S.N.M. No. 43749). 



in interorbital, without nictitating fold; dentary width 2% in head, 

 with short labial groove only at angle of lower jaw; teeth in 36 

 rows above, 30 rows below, each of narrowly triangular median with 

 large cusp and small similar cusp each side of base, edges of all 

 entire; as seen in profile nostrils nearer eye than snout tip, both 

 valves entire, front ones separated by interspace half their width, 

 both without cirri and anterior reach mouth and concealing pos- 

 terior; interorbital 2 in head, depressed. Gill openings small, first 

 deepest with others gradually smaller to fifth, both fifth and sixth 

 above pectoral base. Spiracle small, little behind and level with 

 lower part of eye. 



Scales finely velvety to touch, rather small, each with median point 

 and small point each side basally. 



First dorsal origin close behind end of ventral base, length ly^ in 

 head; second dorsal origin at first % of anal base, length ll^ in head; 

 anal origin midway between ventral origins and subcaudal origin, 

 length ll^ in head; subcaudal large, height % its length, which 



