CATULUS STELLARIS. 75 



Back with alternating light cross-bands and darker ones witli whitish spots. 

 Lower surfaces uniform light. A longer species than the preceding, more closely 

 allied to C. caniculus. The types of the species were 24-41 inches in length. 



Off the coasts of southern Africa. 



CaTULUS STELLARIS. 



Galeus stellaris, minor Belon, 1553, Aquat., p. 74. 



Catulus maior Salviant, 1554, Aquat., fol. 138, pi. 45; Will., 1686, Pise, p. 62, pi. B4, f. 1. 



Canicula saxatilis Rondelet, 1554, Pise, p. 383; Gesner, 1558, Aquat., 4, p. 199. 



Catulus maximus Will., 1686, Pise, p. 63; Ray, 1713, Pise, p. 22. 



Squalus stellaris Linn:6, 1758, Syst., 1, p. 235; 1766, Syst., 1, p. 399; Gmelin, 1789, Linn6 Syst., 1, 



p. 1491; Risso, 1810, Ichth. Nice, p. 31; 1826, Hist. nat. 3, Poissons, p. 116. 

 Catulus saxatilis Valmont, 1768, Diet. hist, nat., 4, p. 51. 

 Greater dog fish Pennant, 1769, Zool., 3, p. 88. 

 Le chat rochier Broussonet, 1780, Mem. Acad, roy., p. 651. 



Squalus canicula Bloch, 1785, Ausl. fische, 1, p. 16, pi. 112; Bonnaterre, 1788, Ichth., pi. 6, f. 17. 

 Le squale roussette LAc:fipfeDE, 1798, Poissons, 1, pi. 9, f . 2. 

 Galeus stellaris Rafinesque, 1810, Ind. itt. Sic, p. 46. 

 Scyllium catulus Cuv., 1817, Reg. anim., 2, p. 124; Parnell, 1838, Mem. Wern. .soe, 7, p. 410; Muli.er 



& Henle, 1841, Plagios., p. 7; Dumeril, 1865, Elasm., p. 316; Bocage & Capello, 1866, Plagio.s., 



p. 11; CosTE, 1867, Compt. rend. Acad, sci., p. 99; 1867, Ann. mag. nat. hist., ser. 3, 19, p. 227; 



MoREAU, 1881, Poiss. France, 1, p. 280; Day, 1884, Brit, fishes, 2, p. 312, pi. 159, f. 2. 

 Scyllium stellare Fleming, 1828, Brit, anim., p. 165; Bonaparte, 1841, Icon. Fauna Ital., Pesci, pi. 48, 



f. 2; Thompson, 1856, Nat. hist. Ireland, 4, p. 247; Gunth., 1870, Cat. fishes Brit, mus., 8, p. 402; 



Malm, 1877, Goteb. och Bohus. fauna, p. 622. 

 Scylliorhinus stellaris Blainv., 1830, Poiss. Fr., p. 71, pi. 17, f. 2; Regan, 1908, Ann. mag. nat. hist., 



ser. 8, 1, p. 457. 

 Nurse hound Couch, 1867, Brit, fishes, 1, p. 11, pi. 1. 



Snout short, little longer than the mouth, broadly rounded in front. Nos- 

 trils Uttle nearer to the mouth than to the end of the snout. Anterior nasal 

 valves short, reaching the mouth, broad, with a rather wide space half the 

 width of each valve between them at the lip, and with a prominent rudiment 

 of a cirrus on the middle of each; posterior valves small, short, broad, not cir- 

 roid. Width of mouth twice the length; a short labial fold on the lower jaw, 

 not reaching half way to the symphysis. Eye medium; edge of lower lid clos- 

 ing within the upper. Gill openings narrow; hindmost two very small, above 

 the pectoral. Spiracle small, close to the corner of the eye. 



Dorsals small; anterior dorsal larger, origin little in front of the hinder ends 

 of the bases of the ventrals. Base of second dorsal small, two thirds as long as 

 the interdorsal space, half of its length extended forward above that of the anal. 

 Base of anal less than twice as long as that of the second dorsal; lower margin 

 of the fin broadly rounded. Subcaudal short, base less than four times the 

 greatest depth, or less than twice the length of the anal base. Ventrals of the 

 male united above the claspers. Scales small, rough, with three cusps, median 

 largest. 



