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and the fifth is bifid near the end. Behind these at the side of the throat there 

 are two short bifid lobes, separated by the length of the eye from one another 

 and by twice as much from those at the angle of the mouth. Scales small, 

 pluricarinate or striate. 



Pectorals short, little longer than wide, Vv^idth about equal their distance 

 from the ventrals, ends truncate, angles blunt. Dorsals subequal, angles 

 sUghtly produced, ends slightly concave; origin of first dorsal behind the mid 

 length, nearly above the ends of the bases of the ventrals, base separated by 

 less than its length from the second; base of second ending about one length of 

 the orbit forward of the anal. Anal small, rounded, narrow, close to subcaudal, 

 base equal half length of subcaudal, nearly equal to base of first dorsal. End of 

 caudal fan-shaped, broadening outward. 



Rusty marbled brownish, with Hght edged spots, and with ten or more 

 irregular transverse blotches of darker: first blotch across occiput and nape, 

 second between the pectorals, third above the space between pectorals and 

 ventrals, the fourth at the origin and the fifth at the end of the first dorsal, 

 the seventh at the end of the second dorsal and the eighth and two or more 

 others across the caudal. The blotches are dark more or less edged with light; 

 some contain ocellate spots. A small spot of white behind each spiracle. A 

 dark spot on the interorbital space; pectorals and ventrals with dark blotches. 

 Lower surfaces uniform light brownish- 



The specimen described, from Japan, closely agrees with the figure pub- 

 Ushed by Miiller and Henle. 



OrECTOLOBUS TENTACULATUS. 



Crossorhinus tentaculatus Peters, 1864, Monatsb. Berl. akad., p. 123; Gunth., 1870, Cat. fishes Brit, 



mus., 8, p. 414; Macleay, 1881, Proc. Linn. soc. N. S. W., 6, p. 365. 

 Orectolobus tentaculatus Regan, 1908, Proc. Zool. soc. Lond., p. 357. 



In most features like 0. maculatus. Nasal cirri long, simple. X small 

 wart-like papilla above each eye posteriorly. Dermal lobes simple; one above 

 the upper lip, one at the angle of the mouth and another at the side of the head. 

 Gill openings small, three above the pectoral, hindmost two close together. 

 Spiracle moderate, behind and below the eye. Pectorals short, broad, rounded. 

 First dorsal the longer, origin nearly above the ends of the bases of the ventrals. 

 Second dorsal entirely forward of the anal, base longer than the interdorsal 

 space. Anal close to the subcaudal. Fin angles more rounded and edges more 

 convex in the young. 



Yellowish grey with light-edged blotches of darker : one blotch on the nape, 



