A REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN ORECTOLOBID”. 269 
vertical fins and the ventrals have also some ill-defined 
spots, but the pectorals are uniform. (collare, collared). 
Type in the Australian Museum; total length 765 mm. 
The above description is of a full grown male, taken off 
Broken Head, N.S. Wales, in 28 fathoms, in the Australian 
Museum. Reg. No. [. 3757. 
Deeper waters off the coast of south-eastern Australia 
and Tasmania. 
PARASCYLLIUM VARIOLATUM, Duméril. 
Hemiscyllium variolatum, Dumeéril, Rev. et Mag. Zool., 1853, p. 121, 
pl. iii, f. 1 and Hist. Nat. Povss., i, 1865, p. 327. 
Parascyllium nuchale, McCoy, Ann. Mag. N. H., xiii, (4) 1874, 
Paloy pls i. 
Parascyllium variolatum, Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1908, p. 349. 
Differs from P. collare in having the anal fin placed a 
little farther back, it being partially below the second 
dorsal, and in lacking the supplementary lobe to the outer 
labial fold. Body and fins clouded with brown, which on 
the former tends to form cross-bands. <A broad blackish- 
brown nuchal collar extends from half-way between the 
eye and the first gill-opening to the base of the pectoral. 
The back and sides of the body with numerous white spots 
which are very small and crowded on the dark nuchal collar. 
(Variola, the small pox). 
Coasts of Victoria and Tasmania. 
The only specimen available to us isa very badly stuffed 
specimen in the Australian Museum. It is labelled asa 
co-type of Parascylliwm nuchale, McCoy from Port Phillip, 
Victoria, and exhibits the characters above described. 
ORECTOLOBUS, Bonaparte. 
Orectolobus, Bonaparte, Fawn. Ital., Pesc., fasc. 7, 1834 (bar- 
batus); Jordan and Fowler, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., xxvi, 1903, 
p 605; Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1908, p. 354. 
