CHECK-LIST OF CEPHALOCHOEDATES, ^c.—OGILBY. 77 



Green Island, Cairns {Ogilby). Hope and Murray Islands [McCullocli). Cape York 

 and Torres Strait {Macleay). 



13. trispeculare Richardson. " Speckled Shark." 



Icon. Pise, 1843, p. 5 :• Turtle Island ; Garman, Plagiost., p. 45 (as Hemi- 

 scyllium trispeculare) — Gtinther, Catal., viii, p. 411 ; Macleay, Catal., 

 1092; Regan, ibid., p. 359 ; Ogilby & McCuUoch, ibid., p. 293. 

 Figure : — Richardson, Zool. Erebus & Terror, Ichth., pi. 28. 

 Dimensions : — No data ; type, a male of 560 miUim. 



Range : — Coast of North Queensland. Turtle Island, Gulf of Carpentaria 

 (Richardsony^ ; Cape York {Gunther)}'^ 



14. punctatum Miiller & Henle. " Brown-banded Shark." 



Plagiost., 1841, p. 18 : Java ; Giinther, Catal., viii, p. 413 ; Regan, ibid., 

 p. 360 ; Garman, Plagiost., p. 61. 



Figures : — Miiller & Henle, ibid., pi. 3 ; Ogilby & McCulloch, ibid., text-fig. 

 1, p. 289 {egg-case) and pi. 43, fig. 2 [fetus). 



Dimensions : — No reliable data as to adult. Garman alludes to a male of 660 

 miUim. in which the claspers "are very smaU and immature," and naturally concludes, 

 as indeed Ogilby & McCulloch had previously suggested, that " this is probably a 

 species of which individuals reach a considerable size." As regards our South Queens- 

 land species it must however, be admitted that this supposition is somewhat discounted 

 by the small size of the egg-case, which rarely exceeds 100 millim. in length by 52 in. 

 breadth. It is possible that we may be confounding two species, of which the Malayan 

 form may attain a much greater size than this Moreton Bay shark, which we know only 

 from its egg-case and fetus, and of which the adult so tantahzingly eludes our search. 



Range : — Coast of Queensland from south to north. Moreton Bay and Dunk 

 Island [Ogilby S( McCulloch), the latter on the evidence of empty egg-cases only, as 

 also Hervey Bay [Endeavour Coll.). Thursday Island [Regan). 



Genus 10— STEGOSTOMA Miiller & Henle, Arch. f. Nat., 1837, i, p. 395 



[jasciatum = tygrinum). 



15. tygrinum Bonnaterre. " Zebra Shark." 



Encycl. Meth., Ichth., 1788, p. 8 : " La mer des Indes" (as Squalus 

 tygrinus) — Giinther, Catal., viii, p. 409 ; Regan, ibid., p. 364 (as Stego- 

 stoma tigrinum) — Ogilby & McCulloch, ibid., p. 295 ; Ogilby, Mem. 

 Queensl. Mus., iii, Garman, Plagiost., p. 59 (as 8. varium). 

 Figure : — Day, Fish. India, pi. 187, fig. 4. 

 Dimensions -.—To at least 3-6 mm. 



Range : — Coast of Queensland presumably from south to north. ^^ Cape 

 Bowhng Green [Hamlyn Harris Coll.). Dunk Island [Ogilby). Little Mulgrave River 

 [McCulloch). Cape York and Normanton [Ogilby). 



Family VI— SCYLIORHINID^E. " The Cat Sharks." 



Genus 1 1— HAL^LURUS Gill, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vii, 1861, 

 p. 407 [bilrgeri). 



16. labiosus Waite. " Black-spotted Cat Shark." 



Rec. Austr. Mus., vi, pt. 2, 15 Sept. 1905, p. 57 : Freemantle, W.A. (as 

 Catulus labiosus) — Giinther, Catal., viii, p. 401 ; Macleay, Catal., 1087 

 (as Scyllium maculatum} — Garman, Plagiost., p. 88. 



'" See Ogilby, Mem. Queensl. Miis., iii, p. 

 I'' Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) xx, p. 67. 



^ * Though all our Queensland records come from the northern division of the State, it occurs 

 as far south as Port Jackson. 



