76 MEMOIBS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



9. tentaculatus Peters. " Somber Wobbegong." 



Mon. Akad. Berlin, 1864, p. 123 : Port Adelaide, S.A. ; Giinther, Catal., 

 viii, p. 414 ; Macleay, Catal., 1096 (as Crossorhinus tentaculatus) — 

 Ogilby & McCulloch, ibid., p. 278 ; Garman, Plagiost., p. 51. 



Figure : — Regan, ibid., pi. xii, fig. 3. 



Dimensions : — To at least 90 cm. 



Range : — Coast of North Queensland. Cape York {Giinther). ^^ 



Genus 7— BRACHiELURUS Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl., xx, 30 Sept. 1907, 



p. 27 {modestus). Syn. — Cirriscy Ilium Ogilby 1908. 



10. modestus Giinther. " Blind Shark." 



Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 654; Macleay, Catal., 1093 (as Chiloscyllium 

 modestum) — Macleay, ibid., 1094 (as C. furvum) — Regan, ibid., p. 354 ; 

 Ogilby & McCulloch, ibid., p. 281. 

 Figures : — Giinther, ibid., pi. 54 ; Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus., iv, pi. 4, fig. 1 

 (fetus) (as Hemiscyllium modestum). 



Dimensions : — To at least 90 cm. 

 Range : — Coast of South Queensland. 



Genus 8— HETEROSCYLLIUM Regan, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) ii, Nov., 1908, 

 p. 455 {coldoughi). Sjoi. — Brachcelurus Ogilby 1908, by an oversight, 



11. colcloughi. " Blue-gray Shark." 



Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl., xxi, 25 Aug. 1908, p. 4 : Moreton Bay (as Brachce- 

 lurus colcloughi) — Ogilby & McCulloch, ibid., p. 284. 

 Unfigured. 



Dimensions : — Of type, a young male, 457 miUim. 



Range : — Coast of South Queensland. Moreton Bay {Ogilby S," Q.M., O.C). 

 Type : — Accidentally destroyed. 



Genus 9— CHILOSCYLLIUM Miiller & Henle, Arch. f. Nat., 1837, i, p. 395 



{plagiosum). Syn. — Hemiscyllium Miiller & Henle 1838. 



12. ocellatum Bonnaterre. " Epaulette Shark." 



Encycl. Meth., Ichth., 1788, p. 8 ; "La mer dusud " (as Squalus ocellatus) — 

 Giinther, Catal., viii, p. 410 ; Macleaj^, Catal., 1091 ; Regan, ibid., p. 

 398 ; Ogilby & McCulloch, ibid., p. 290— Garman, Plagiost., p. 44 

 (as Hemiscyllium, ocellatum). 

 Figure : — Shaw, Nat. Misc., pi. 161. 

 Dimensions : — To at least 90 cm. 



Range : — Coasts of Middle and North Queensland, common about coral reefs. 

 Masthead Island {McCulloch). Nor- West Islet {Endeavour Coll.). Dunk Island and 



1* McCulloch, Tinder date 9-V-14, writes : " I do not believe that the Cape York and the 

 South Australian specimens belong to the same species, though as I have no decent specimens of 

 either I am not in a position to prove my point." With this opinion I am inclined to agree. We 

 know that 0. tentaculatus occurs on the coast of South Australia, because not onlj^ did Peters' 

 type come from Port Adelaide, bvit the Australian Mvisevun possesses a specimen from the same 

 place (v. Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, xiv, p. 182). But tliere is an alternative proposition 

 in the possibility of the label on Herr Damel's examples, on the authority of which alone the Queens- 

 land locality rests, having been accidentally changed. If both the records are correct it is exceed- 

 ingly strange tha.t the species has never been recorded from any intermediate station on either 

 coast of Australia. Under the circumstances, however, I do not see my way clear to erase the name 

 from our list, even though its reputed liabitat has been fairly well exploited without yieldmg further 

 evidence in favour. In face of these facts Garman oraits all mention of the authenticated South 

 Australian locality and gives the distribution of the species as " Queensland" only. 



