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obscurity. Finally it was surely injudicious for Smith to have given to his new 

 genus Cirrhoscyllium a name so closely resembling my CirriscylUum of six 

 years previously. 8 



CHILOSCYLLIUM TRISPECULARE (Richardson). * 



In two of the three recent papers above mentioned, which refer to this 

 species, the locality is merely copied from Richardson without comment; yet 

 strangely enough, prior to our Port Darwin, N.T., record, 10 this shark had no 

 claim whatever to a north-western habitat. Certainly Richardson gives the 

 locality of his type as "Turtle Island, on the north-west coast of Australia." 

 Taking, however, into consideration the ambiguity which was inseparable from 

 all allusions to Australian geography in those days, and the fact that Lieut. 

 Bynoe, who surveyed the Gulf of Carpentaria, obtained Richardson's second 

 specimen " on the same coast " (as the first came from), I think we ma}" fairly 

 conclude that the Turtle Island referred to is the small island of that name, 

 which lies between Mornington Island and the mainland near Bynoe 's Inlet. 11 

 In any case this is not the only reference to the species on the Queensland Coast, 

 since Griuither recorded it from Cape York as far back as 1867. 12 



STEGOSTOMA TYGRINUM (Bonnaterre). 

 In describing the egg-case of this species in our review of the family 

 above quoted, we remark that "it is without apparent means of attachment." 14 

 Through the receipt of a tine example, collected by Dr. Hamlyn-Harris at Cape 

 Bowling-green, and containing a fully developed embryo, I am able to state that 

 the method employed is similar to that of Chiloscyttium punctatum 15 ; that is to 

 say — the case is bag- shaped, and the handle, after its deposition, is woven to it 

 and round some support. 



SCYLIORHIX1TLE. 



HALfflLURUS LABIOSUS (Waite). 18 



Bramble Cay, so often referred to in connection with this shark, is a small 

 sandy islet 28 miles N. by E. from Darnley Island, and is under the jurisdiction 

 of Queensland. 



8 Ogilby, Proe. Roy. Soc. Queensl., xxi, 25 Aug. 1908, p. 4. 



11 Zool. Ereb. & Terr., ii, 1845, Ichth., p. 43, pi. xxviii. 

 10 Ogilby & McCulloeh, ibid., p. 293. 



11 1 am indebted to my colleague, Mr. Douglas Eauuie, for a knowledge of this island, 

 which is not mentioned in the ' ' Australia Directory ' ' nor marked in any map. 



12 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xx, 18G7-, p. 67. 

 1= Encyc. Meth., Ichth., 1788, p. 8. 



14 Ogilby & McCulloeh, ibid., p. 299. 



15 Miiller & Henle, Plagiost., 1841, p. 18. 



10 P t ec. Austr. Mus., vi., pt. 2, 15 Sept. 1905, p. 57. 



