25. CniLOSCTLLIUM. 411 



nemiscylliiun ociilatmu, Muller <!>- llimle,^. 16; Dumdril, Ela<mohr. 



p. 3l'C.. 

 Scyllium ocellatiim, Blijth, Juurn. As. Soc. Bcmj. 1847, p. 72G, pi. 25 b. 



iig. 2. 



The lower labial fold is not continued across the symphysis. The 

 first giU-openinf,' narrower than the second, scarcely wider than the 

 orbit. IMouth mucli nearer to the end of tlie snout than to the eye. 

 Body with scattered round black spots ; a large black, white-edged 

 ocellus above the pectoral fin. 



Australia. 



a. Fine specimen. Capo York. From Hr. Darnel's Collection. 

 h. Half-grown. North-west Australia. From the Haslar Collection. 

 c-d. Half-grown. Sunday Island. Presented by J. B. Jukes, Es(i. 

 e. Adult (33 inches) : stutfed. Australia. Presented by the Earl 



of Derby. 

 /. Half-grown : stuff'ed. South Sea. 

 <j-h. Half-grown : stuffed. 



2. Chiloscyllimn trispeculare. 



Hemiscvllium trispeculare, liichards. T'o)/. Erch. df Ter. Fish. p. lo, 

 pi. 28, and Ic. IHsc. p. 5, pi. 1. fig. 2. 



Scarcely specifically distinct from Ch. oceUnium. 



The lower labial fold is not continued across the symphj-sis. 

 Tho first gill-opening as wide as the second, and distinctly wider 

 than the orbit. Mouth much nearer to the end of the snout than 

 to the eye. Head and body covered with small brown spots, which 

 on tho hinder part of the trunk are arranged in small rings ; some 

 indistinct dark bands across the back ; a large black white-edged 

 occUus (with one or two smaller ones behind) above the pectoral fin. 



North-western Australia. 



a. Type of the species, 22 inches long. Presented by Sir J. Rich- 

 ardson, 



ScyUium malaisianum, Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. p. 94, pi. G, or 

 Sq/lUi(7n freycineti, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Uran. Poiss. p. 1U2, from 

 Waigiou, referred bj^ Miiller and Henle (and Aug. Dunieril) to their 

 ChlloscyUiuw, is evidently most closely allied to Cli. ocellatum and 

 trispeculare ; but it lacks the ocellated spots above the pectoral : with 

 regard to the brown spots it is intermediate between the two species 

 mentioned. 



3. Chiloscyllium indicum. 



Squalus, sp., Gronov. Mus. Ichth. i. p. Gl. no. 133; Zoophi/l. no. I-IO 



(from a specimen in which the anal fin is cut away). 

 Squaliis indicus, G'wi. L. i. p. Io03 ; HI. Schii. p. 137. 

 Squale dentcle, Lacep. i. p. 281, pi. 11. fig. 1. 

 Sqiialus grouoviamis, Lacfip. i. p. 280. 



tubercidatus, HI. Srlui. p. l-">7. 



liituseU, p. 10, pi. IG (I5ok('e Sovrah and Ra Sorrab). 

 ScyUium plagiosuin, Benmtt, Life of Itajles, p. G94. 

 oruatiuii, Gray, III. Intl. Zool. c. fig. 



