On a new South- African Galeid Selachian. 51 



Family Pyraustida9. 

 Herniscopys suffusalis. 



Scopula (?) suffusalis, Walker, xxxiv. p. 1471 (1865). 



£of.i/s Snelleminni, Snellen, Midl-Snni. iv., Lep. p. 61 (1830). 



Pi/rausta oiolacea, Lucas, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) vii. p. 203. 



Type, Ceylon, in B. M. 



Type (Snellemanni), Suinafra, in Coll. Snellen. 



Type {violacea), Qaeenslaiid, in Coll. Lucas. 



1 have some examples from Queensland that have been 

 compared with Lucas's type ; they are identical with Walker's 

 type. 



VIL — Description of a new South- African Galeid 

 Selachian. By G. A. BouLENGER, F.R.S. 



[Plate IV.] 



SCYLLIOGALEUS, gen. nov. 



Characters of Mustelus, but nostrils as in Sct/llium, covered 

 with broad flaps which extend to the border of the mouth. 



Scylliogaleus Queclcetti. (PI. IV.) 



Distance between the end of the snout and the base of the 

 pectoral fin one fifth of the total length. Snout much de- 

 pressed, twice as broad as deep, with rounded horizontal 

 outline, as long as the distance between the eye and the first 

 gill-cleft, once and two thirds the diameter of the eye ; spiracle 

 small, oval, its diameter about equal to its distance from the 

 eye ; nasal flaps large, narrowly separated on the median 

 line; both jaws with a well-developed labial fold, extending 

 from near the symphysis of the lower jaw to the nasal flap 

 and notched at the angle of the mouth ; outline of tlie mouth 

 evenly curved, not angular ; teeth small and very numerous 

 in both jaws, arranged like pavement, flat and ribbed with 

 very feeble ridges; first gill-cleft as long as the eye, fifth two 

 thirds that length ; fourth and fifth gill-clefts above the base 

 of the pectoral. Pectoral as long as its distance from the 

 anterior border of the eye; ventral shorter, equally distant 

 from spiraculum and from caudal fin ; claspers small, simple. 

 First dorsal midway between ])ectoral and ventral, its border 

 strongly notched ; second dorsal similar in form, but a little 



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