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long, with slight transverse concavity on crown ; both lips with fringed 

 edges ; nostrils small, internarial width siibeqnal with dentary width ; 

 interorbital 2i^ to 2^ in head, level. Gill openings small, subequal, 

 equidistant, first and last shorter. Eye 1% of large spiracle. 



Skin smooth. Caudal with 2 spines, near end of tail, second longer 

 or 11/2 in head. 



No dorsal or anal ; caudal moderately deep, end rounded ; pectorals 

 form partly quadrangular disk, broadly rounded; ventrals broad, 

 obtuse; clasi)ers flattened though robust, obtusely conic, little less 

 than total ventral length. 



Uniform brownish above. Below whitish, outer portions of pec- 

 torals laterally, also of ventrals and all of caudal dusky. 



New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania. 



U.S.N.M. No. 39989. Port Jackson. Australian Museum. Length, 530 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 39993. Port Jackson. Australian Museum. Length, 470 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 40008. Port Jackson. Australian Museum. Length, 420 mm. 



UROLOPHUS ARMATUS MuUer and Henle 



Vrolophtis armatus (Valenciennes) Mulleb and Henle, Syst. Beschr. Pla- 

 giostomen, p. 174, 1841 (type locality: New Ireland). — Dxtmeril, Hist. Nat. 

 Elasmobr., vol. 1, p. 628, 1865 (type). — Gunther, Cat. Fishes British Mus., 

 vol. 8, p. 485, 1870 (copied) ; Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, pt. 17, p. 495, 1910 

 (copied). — Gaeman, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 36, p. 407, 1913 (New Ire- 

 land). — FowLEB, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 25, 1928 (compiled) ; Proe. 

 4th (1929) Pacific Sci. Congr., Java, p. 503, 1930 (reference). 



Snout somewhat pointed and prominent; mouth waved; teeth flat. 



Above with small asperities on rostral cartilages, along back and 

 row on tail ; strong tubercle on shoulder girdle. 



Tail scarcely shorter than disk ; pectorals form rhomboid, orbicular 

 disk, rather wider than long, front edges rectilinear, angles and hind 

 edges rounded. 



Brown, with numerous round black spots. Belly white, edges 

 darker. Length, 175 mm. (Miiller and Henle; Dumeril.) 



New Ireland. 



Subgenus Trygonoptera Miiller and Henle 



UROLOPHUS BUCCULENTUS Macleay 



Urolophus bucculentus Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 9, p. 

 172, 1884 (type locality: Outside Port Jackson, in 40-60 fathoms).— Ogilby, 

 Cat. Fish. Australian Mus., vol. 1, p. 21, 1888 (types; off Barranjoey, Port 

 Jackson). — Waite, Fisher. Eep. Thetis, p. 41, 1898 (Nelsons Bay at Port 

 Stephens, New South Wales). — McCulloch, Biol. Res. Endeavour, vol. 4, 

 pt. 4, p. 177, 1916 (Bass Straits, in 70-100 fathoms) ; McCulloch, Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 46, pt. 4, p. 466, pi. 41, figs. 1-3, 1921 

 (east of Botany Bay, in 60 fathoms) ; Fishes of New South Wales, ed. 2, 

 p. 13, 1927. 



