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throughout; inner nasal lobes very large, in 2 portions, innermost 

 forms ramose flap on short stalk and other portion broader with 

 ramose border; outer nasal lobes hidden beneath others, margins 

 fringed ; interocular 2% in head, concave. Spiracle about % of eye, 

 interspiracle width slightly less than interocular. 



Snout and interorbital with stout, spiniform tubercles, row of 3 

 from snout to supraorbital, 1 or 2 smaller around base of last, another 

 before eye, 3 more between eye and spiracle superiorly; back with 

 minute tricarinate denticles, median somewhat enlarged, form series 

 nearly to first dorsal; present on paired fins basally, rest of upper 

 surfaces naked; head granular above and before eyes, and on its 

 sides; tail uniformly with minute denticles above; head and body 

 below naked, on tail closely covered with imbricate denticles not 

 extended to base. 



First dorsal length ^Yb, in head; second dorsal length 2I/2; upper 

 caudal lobe 2, subcaudal length 2l^ ; pectoral length 21^ to subcaudal 

 origin, width 1% its length ; ventral 3% to subcaudal origin. 



Light yellowish brown, closely covered with small, round, blue 

 spots. Upper surface with 8 dark-edged and dark-spotted ocelli, 4 

 in row across back behind head, 2 outer larger and on pectorals; 

 4 others in line with front of ventrals, 2 inner larger, others on pec- 

 torals posteriorly less marked than first. Several other paired brown 

 rings at intervals along back. Length, 420 mm. (McCulloch.) 



Great Australian Bight, New South Wales. 



SQUATINA AUSTRALIS Regan 



Squatina australis Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 18, p. 438, 1906 

 (type locality: Port Jackson). — Waite and McCtnxocH, Trans. Roy. Soc. 

 South Australia, vol. 39, p. 460, 1915 (Great Australian Bight, 80-140 

 fathoms). — Waite, Rec. South Australian Mus., vol. 2, p. 25, fig. 36, 1921. — 

 McCulloch, Fishes of New South Wales, ed. 2, p. 9, p. 21, fig. 27a, 1927. — 

 FowLEK, Proc. 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 497, 1930 (reference). 

 — Whitley, Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 10, pt. 4, p. 200, 1934 (reference). 



Rhina australis Garman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 255, 1913 (off 

 Victoria, Australia). 



Rlx'ma squatina (not Linnaeus) GiXNTHEE; Cat. Fishes British Mus., vol. S, p. 

 430, 1870 (Sydney and Georgetown, Tasmania). — Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Ac- 

 climat. Soc. Victoria, vol. 1, p. 221, 1872 (Melbourne market). — Klunzingee, 

 Arch. Naturg., vol. 38, p. 47, 1872 (Hobson's Bay) ; Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss., 

 Wien, math.-nat. CI., vol. 80, pt. 1, p. 429, 1880 (Hobsons Bay).— Ramsay, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 5, p. 97, 1880 (Port Jackson). — 

 Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 6, p. 368, 1881 (coast of 

 Australia, Port Jack.son). — Johnston, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania, 1882, p. 

 139, 1883.— Ogilby, Cat. Fishes Australian Mus., pt. 1, p. 12, 1888 (Port 

 Jackson). — Lucas, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, new ser., vol. 2, p. 44, 1890 

 (reference). 



