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I liavo prt'-viously dcscrihed Llit; ogf^-casc, of this species* and 

 also that of Gyroplenrocbis ;/a/eatus, Griinther, and althoujt^h all 

 the Port Jackson Sharks netted were critically eyed, neither 

 the crested species nor its egg-case were taken. 



When ashore at Wollongong and Kiama I noticed egg-cases 

 exhibited as curiosities in the shop windows ; all so shown were 

 of (t. galeatns. The known range of this latter species may be 

 thus extended southward ; it had been previously obtained as far 

 north as Port Stephens. 



Ogilby recently! described a pair of Cestrationt jaws taken 

 some years previously off Manly Beach, to the north of Port 

 Jackson, and while admitting a general likeness to those of G. 

 galeatus, inclined to the belief that they might prove to belong to 

 an unknown species. With a view to elucidating this matter, 

 Mr. Ogilby and myself compared the jaws with those of G. galeatus 

 preserved in the Museum. They proved to be in every way 

 identical. Giinther has not mentioned the teeth in his descrip- 

 tion of this species, and Macleay's figure does not repi'esent them. 

 I supplement Ogilby's description above referred to, by a figure 

 of the jaws kindly lent for the purpose ; but the question remains, 

 to what species did the jaws figured by Macleay belong 1 



Family SCYLLIORHINID^. 



CATULUS, A. Synith. 



CATULUS ANALIS, Ogilhy. 



Spotted Cat-Shark. 



(Plate ii., fig. 1.) 



Scyllium anale, Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. JST.S.W., x., 1885, 

 pp. 445, 464. 



Stations 2, 10, 12, 13. 



Ogilby remarks that this species seems to be common in the 

 neighbourhood of Port Jackson, within the harbour of which the 

 type was obtained. We did not find it to be very common out- 

 side, the four stations not yielding more than a dozen individuals. 

 All were obtained within the very limited portion of the coast 

 lying between Broken Bay and Tuggerah Lakes. This species 

 was taken in depths ranging from 23 to 50 fathoms; the largest 

 example measured 570 mm. or 22^ inches, just the length of the 



* Waite — Journ. Linn. Soc, xxv., 1896, p. 325, pi. xii. 

 + Ogilby— Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxii., 1897, p. 245. 



