270 J. D. OGILBY AND A. R. McCULLOCH. 
Crossorhinus, Miiller and Henle, Arch. f. Nat., 1837, i, p. 396 
(lobatus = maculatus); id., Plagvost., p. 21, 1841; Giinther, 
B.M. Cat. Fish., viii, 1870, p. 413; McCoy, Pred. Zool. Vic., 
Dec. v, 1880, p. 15. 
Eucrossorhinus, Regan, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1908, p. 357, (dasypogon ). 
The ‘‘ Wobbegongs ”’ or “‘ Carpet-Sharks.”’ 
Body rather elongate, broad and depressed in front, 
becoming gradually narrower behind, the tail compressed 
and tapering, scarcely elevated above the axial plane. 
Scales minute; lateral line inconspicuous. Head wide and 
strongly depressed, with very hroad rounded snout, the 
sides with more or less numerous dermal lobes. Mouth 
nearly anterior, transverse, wide; lips thick and fleshy, 
fringed within; labial grooves well developed, not continu- 
ous across the symphysis of the lower jaw, behind which 
is a well marked longitudinal groove. Teeth in but few 
series, the anterior long, subulate, and smooth, the lateral 
small and tricuspid. Spiracles wide and oblique, below and 
partly behind the eye. Gill-slits subequal; three above 
the pectoral. Tail subequal to the head and trunk. First 
dorsal fin originating above or nearly above the end of the 
base of the ventral, slightly larger than the second; anal 
fin small, inserted wholly behind the second dorsal, approxi- 
mate to and overlapping the caudal; caudal fin short. 
(cpextos, stretched out; A0Gds, lobe). 
Sharks of small or moderate size, inhabiting the coastal 
waters of Australia and Tasmania, southern and western 
New Guinea, Austro-Malaysia, China, Japan and the Cape 
Seas. Species five. 
Regan (loc. cit.) has erected a new genus, Eucrossorhinus 
for O. dasypogon, Bleeker, principally on account of differ- 
ences in the form of the gill-openings. We have re-examined 
the two specimens available to us, and also the figure given 
