48 BULLETIN 10 0, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



HALAELURUS ANALIS (Ogilby) 



Scyllium anale Ogixby, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 10, p. 445 (type 



locality: Middle Harbor, Port Jackson), p. 464 (note), 1885; Cat. Fish. 



Australian JIus., pt. 1, p. 6, 1888 (type: Port Jackson). — Waite, Prelim. 



Rep. Thetis Exped., p. 38, 1898 (New South Wales).— Rbgajst, Ann. Mag. 



Nat. Hist, ser. 8, vol. 1, p. 460, 1908 (New South Wales). 

 ScylUorhimis analis OorLBY, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, ser. 2, vol. 4, 



p. 180, 1889 (Port Jackson). 

 SnjUorhinus analis MoCuixoch, Zool. Res. Endeavour, vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 3, 1911 



(Bass Strait and New South Wales, 14 to 45 fathoms). — Whitley, Mem. 



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

 Scplliorhinus {Halaelurus) analis Waite and MoCuixoch, Trans. Roy. Soc. 



South Australia, vol. 39, p. 459, 1915 (Great Australian Bight, in 88 to 94 



fathoms). 

 Catulus analis Waite, Mem. Australian Mus., vol. 4, p. 31, pi. 2, fig. 1, 1899 



(New South Wales) ; Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 6, pt. 3, p. 228, pi. 40, fig. 



38, 1906 (egg cases) (Port Jackson). 

 Halaelurus analis Gaeman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 85, 1913 (New 



South Wales). — Waite, Rec. South Australian Mus., vol. 2, p. 18, fig. 21, 



1921.— McCutLocH, Fishes New South Wales, ed. 2, p. 7, pi. 2, fig. 19a, 



1927.— FowXEE, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr. Java, p. 485, 1930 



(reference). 

 Scyllium maculatum (not Giinther) Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 



vol. 5, p. 97, 1880 (Port Jackson). — Johnston, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania, 



1882, p. 138, 1883. 



Depth 9 to 101^ to subcaiidal origin; head ^% to 6, width li/^ to 

 11/2. Snout 2% to 2% in head, depressed, rounded as seen from 

 above; eye 4 to 4%, 1% to 1% in snout, ll^ in interorbital ; dentary 

 width 2^5 to 21/2 in head, short groove at each angle though lower 

 groove trifle longer; teeth in 50 to 53 rows above, 40 below, each 

 tooth with 3 to 5 cusps of which median longest, all narrowly tri- 

 angular and with entire edges; nostrils in last half of preoral 

 length ; front nasal valves short, wide, each equals internarial space, 

 not nearly reaching mouth and anterior not entirely concealing 

 posterior valve which not at all confluent with anterior valve on 

 inner edges; interorbital 2% to 2V5 in head, broadly and slightly 

 convex. Gill openings with first largest, gradually smaller to fifth 

 and fourth and fifth above pectoral. Spiracle small, close behind 

 and level with eye. 



Scales small, tricuspid and median cusp longest and best 

 developed. 



First dorsal origin close behind ventral base, length 1% to 1% in 

 head, hind lobe right angle; second dorsal inserted opposite last % 

 of anal base, length 1% to I14 in head ; anal origin midway between 

 first and second dorsal origins, length of fin equals head; subcaudal 

 longer than head to last gill opening, height 4i/^ to 4% in its length ; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 314 to 3% in head; pectoral 1% to 



