208 W. HAROLD LEIGH-SHARPE 



CALLORHYNCHUS ANTARCTICUS 



The southern heaiity 



This curious member of the HolocephaH agrees with Chimaera 

 in the essential characters mentioned in the introduction to 

 that genus, but is widely different as to details. I have examined 



Ant CI 



Fig. 9 Callorhynchus antarcticus. An/. CI., anterior clasper partly pro- 

 truded; Po., pouch with anterior clasper retracted; A., apopyle;/., fused portion 

 of clasper tube; HI., true hypopyle; H2, false hypopyle. 



an adult male from Hobart Town 66 cm. long and an adult 

 female from Table Bay 73 cm. in length. While the posterior 

 claspers are here again covered by the pelvic fins, they are of the 

 ordinary scroll tj^pe with nothing specially remarkable. The 

 closed portion of the clasper tube formed by the overlapping 

 edges is very long, and a peculiarity is that, subsequent to the 

 unrolling of the scroll, at the extreme tip of the clasper, is a 

 short closed portion formed by actual fusion of the clasper edges 



