LIST OF FISH. 



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** Anal behind the second dorsal. 

 Scyllium, § 2, Cuv. Reg. An. 2 ed. ii. 386. 



3. HEMISCYLL1UM. 



The nostrils reach wilhin the mouth. The nasal flaps of both 

 sides are dissevered from one another; the outer one is very large, 

 and the inner one possesses a beard. Mouth oblique, transverse, 

 nigh the fore end of the snout. Plaits exist at the comer of the 

 mouth, and the under ones do not unite in the middle line. Teeth 

 three-lobed. Spiracles large, longitudinal, under the hinder half of 

 the eyes. The gill-openings are all equally distant from each other, 

 the last one over the breast-fin. Both back-fins stand over the 

 belly-fin and before the anal ; the anal-fin close upon the tail-fin ; 

 this has the usual notch at the hinder end, and no under lobe. 



Hemiscyllium, Mull. $• Henle, Mug. Nat. Hist. ii. 183 8. Plagiost. 



Bonap. Selac. Tab. Anal. ii. 1838. 

 Scylliorhinus (§ 2), Blainv. Bull. Soc. Phil. 1816, 121. Jour, de 



Phys. 1816,263. 



1. Hemiscyllium ocellatum. Eyed Shark. 



Hemiscyllium ocellatum (Ocellated Shark), Mull. Sf Henle, 16. 



1841. Rich. Voy. Erebus S,- Terror, 43, pi. 28, f. 8 (scale). 

 Scylliorhinus ocellatus, Blainv. Bull. Sue. Phil. 1816, 121. 

 Squalus oculatus, Banks, (fig.) MS. 56. 



L'CEille, Brouss. Hist, de I' Acad. Roy. des Sci. 660, n. 11, 1780. 

 Squalus ocellatus, Gmel. 1494, 21. 

 Le Squale ceille, Lacep. i. 253. 

 Squalus ocellatus, Shaw, Nat. Misc. 161. Griff". An. Kingd. t. x. 



t. 3. 



Hab. — Southern Ocean. 



a, b. In spirits. Sunday Island. Presented by J. B. Jukes, Esq. 



c. Stuffed. South Sea. 



2. Hemiscyllium trispecclare. Tri-ocellated Hemiscyllium. 



Hemiscyllium trispeculare, Rich. Icoms Piscium, 5, pi. 1, f. 2. 

 Lond. 1843. Voy. Erebus $• Terror, 43, pi. 28, f. 3—7, 

 1845. 



Hab. — South Sea. 



a. In spirits. North-west Coast of Australia. Presented by Sir 

 J. Richardson, M.D. 



