FISHES.-MCCULLOCH. j 



Family ORECTOLOBID.4:. 



Genus Pakascvllium, (////. 



Parascvi.lium variolatum, Ditnien'l. 



(Plate ii., fig. i.) 



Heniiscylliutn varinlatuni, Dumeril, Rev. et. Mag. Zool., 



1853, P- i-'i. pl- '''•- fig- I- 

 Parascyllium variolatum , Ogilby and McCulloch, Proc. Roy. 



Soc. N.S. Wales, xlii., 190H, p. 269. 



Two fine female examples were taken off Port Phillip Heads 

 in November, 1909. 



Parascyllium coli.are, Ramsay and Ogilby. 



Collared Cat Shark. 



Parascyllium collare, Ramsay and Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S. Wales (2), iii., 18S9, p. 1310; id., Ogilby and 

 McCulloch, Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S. Wales, xlii., 1908, 

 p. 267. 



Three males from Shoalhaven Bight, New South Wales, 

 ] 5-45 fathoms. 



Parascyllium ferrugineu.m, sp. nov. 

 (Plate ii., fig. 2, and fig. 2.) 



Head to last gill-opening, 5.8 in the length, its width i§ in 

 its length. Eye 9 in the head, 2.8 in the snout which is 3.2 

 in the head. Interorbital space almost equal to the snout. 

 Preoral portion of head equal to half the width of the mouth 

 which is 1.3 in the snout. 



Body elongate, somewhat depressed anteriorly, cylindrical 

 posteriorly. Head much depressed with its upper surtace 

 flat; snout broadly rounded, obtusely conical in profile and 

 increasing in width backwards. Eyes lateral with a prominent 

 fold below. Spiracle minute and situated half an eye-diameter 

 from the infero-posterior angle of the eye. Gill-openings in- 

 creasing regularly in size from the first to the fourth, the 

 last very large, 3! the width of the first and more than hali 

 as long as the snout ; the last t\\ o are placed over the base ot 

 the pectoral. Nasal cirrus short and thick, just reaching to 

 the lips ; exterior nasal fold w ith two or three small lobes 

 posteriorly, the outer the longest and pointed. Lower labial 

 fold extending about half way towards the middle of the jaw 

 and continued round the angle of the mouth. Teeth similar in 



