A REVISION OF THE AUSTRALIAN ORECTOLOBIDA. yt (Pi 
anterior margin convex, and the outer nearly straight with 
the angles rounded. Ventrals similar in shape to the 
pectorals but much smaller. Skin covered with minute 
rough tubercular scales, which are smoother on the tail and 
hinder portion of the body. 
Colour light sandy, covered with a network of dark brown 
rings which are small on the head and larger on the sides 
and tail. Hach ring has a more or less distinct darker 
centre, which is plainest on the tail. At regular intervals 
large dark brown blotches break the uniformity of the net- 
work. About five inconspicuous darker cross-bands on the 
body and four more distinct ones on the tail. Fins similar 
to the body, except that on their posterior portions the 
network is finer; (Sacvs, shaggy; wwywv, beard). Total length 
1210 mm. 
Type in the South Kensington Museum. Described from 
two specimens, one skin and one mounted specimen in the 
Australian Museum from Samarai, New Guinea, and Torres 
Straits. 
Gunther, loc. cit., states that the distance between the 
two dorsals is equal to the length of the base of the first. 
In our specimens it is not so long. 
ORECTOLOBUS MACULATUS, Bonnaterre. 
(Plate xu11., fig. 2.) 
Barbu, Broussonet, Mem. Acad. Sci., Paris, 1780, p. 657, No. 7: 
New Holland. 
Squalus maculatus, Bonnaterre, Encycl. Meth. Ichth., 1788, p. 8: 
La mer du Sud. 
Squalus barbatus, Gmelin, Syst. Mat., i, 1789, p. 1493; Lacépede, 
Hist. Nat. Poiss., i, 1798, p. 247; Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 
1801, p. 128. 
Squalus, Watts’ Shark, Phillip, Voy. Botany Bay, 1789, p. 285, 
pl. ii. 
R—Dec. 2, 1908. 
