25. CniLOSCYLLIUM. 411 



Ilomiscylliuni oculatuiii, Miiller ^- Ilenle, p. 10 ; Dum^ril, Ela^mobr. 



p. 320. 

 Scyllium ocellatum, Bhjth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1847, p. 720, pi. 25 b. 



•fig. 2. 



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

 first giU-opening narrower than the second, scarcely wider than the 

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

 15()dy with scattered round black spots ; a large black, white-edged 

 ocellus above the pectoral fin. 



Australia. 



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

 h. Half-grown. North-west Australia. From t-'^e Haslar Collection. 

 c-d. Half-grown. Sunday Island. Presented by J. B. Jukes, Esq. 

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



of Derby. 

 /. Half-grown : stuffed. South Sea. 

 g~h. Half-grown : stuffed. 



2. Chiloscyllium trispeculare. 



Ilemiscyllium trispeculare, Itichards. Vuij. Ereh. Sf Ter. Fish. p. 43, 

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



Scarcely specifically distinct from Gh. ocellatum. 



The lower labial fold is not continued across the symphysis. 

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

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

 ocellus (with one or two smaller ones behind) above the pectoral tin. 



North-western Australia. 



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

 ardson. 



Sci/llium malaisianum, Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. p. 94, pi. 6, or 

 Sci/llimn freycineti, Quoy & Gaim. Voy, Uran. Poiss. p. 192, from 

 Waigiou, referred by Miiller and Henle (and Aug. Dumcril) to their 

 ChiJoso/Uimn, is evidently most closely allied to C'h. ocellatum and 

 trispeculare ; but it lacks the ocellatcd spots above the pectoral : Avith 

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

 mentioned, 



3, Chiloscyllium indicum. 



Squalus, sp., Gronov. Mus. Iclith. i. p. 01. no. 133 ; Zoo2)hi/l. no. loO 



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

 Squalus indicus, Gin. L. i. p. Io03; Bl. Schn. p. 137. 

 Squale deutele, Lacvp. i. p. 281, pi. 11. fig. 1. 

 Squalus gronovianus, Lacvp. i. p. 280. 



tuberculatus, Bl. Hilui. p. 137. 



liiis'^ell, p. 10, pi. 10 (Bokoe Sorrali and Ka Sorrali). 

 Scylliuui plagiosuni, Bennett, Life of Rajfles, p. 004. 

 ovnatum, Gray, III. hid. Zvol. c. fig. 



