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This large selachian was first recorded from Australia by McCoy, whose 
specimen I have seen in the Exhibition Building, Melbourne, besides a half- 
grown example from Williamstown , Victoria, in the National Museum, 
Melbourne. The South Australian Museum, Adelaide, has several specimens, 
including a magnificent cast of a very large example. The Australian Museum, 
Sydney, has the gill rakers of Waite’s specimen from southern New South Wales 
and the teeth of another from Mungo Beach, near the Myall Lakes, New South 
Wales. Photographs of the latter specimen are here reproduced as this 
constitutes the most northerly Australasian record. The tail of this shark was 
about one-fifth of the total length which was 25 feet. 
Our Basking Shark ranges from New South Wales southward to Tasmania 
and New Zealand and westward to the Great Australian Bight. Mr. W. J. 
Phillipps has kindly supplied the following Neozelanic localities : — near mouth 
of Wade River, Davenport; Whangaparaoa. Peninsula (‘every spring 5 '); 
Kapiti Island, Wairoa, Makara, and off Wellington, New Zealand. 
If the Australasian form prove distinct from the European, the name 
Halsydrus maccoyi is available for it (Barrett, Sun Nature Book iv, “ Water 
Life, 55 1933, p. 13 ex Tetroras maccoyi Whitley and Phillipps M.S.). 
LIST OF AUSTRALIAN SPECIES. 
In conclusion, I offer the following list of the Sharks of Australia and 
New Zealand, with an indication, whenever known, of their size, breeding 
methods, and harmfulness or otherwise, to man. The distribution of the 
species will in most cases be found in McCulloch’s £k Check-List ” and 
Phillipps’ “ Bibliography.” 
J . One-finned Shark, Heptranchias dakini Whitley. Length about three feet. 
2. Seven-gilled Shark, Notorynchus cepedianus (Peron). Over 94 feet. Regarded as harmful 
to man in South Australia (Waite), but not looked upon as dangerous in New 
Zealand (Phillipps). 
3. Port Jackson Shark, Heterodontus portusjacksoni (Meyer). 4 feet. Oviparous ; egg case 
without tendrils. Harmless. 
4. Crested Port Jackson Shark, Molochophrys galeatus (Gunther). About 4 feet. Oviparous ; 
egg case with tendrils. Harmless. 
5. Northern Catshark, Hemiscyllium freycineti (Quoy and Gaimard). About one foot. 
Oviparous. Harmless. 
fi. Bpaulette Shark, Hemiscyllium ocellatum (Bonnaterre). Over 3 feet. Oviparous. Harmless. 
7. Speckled Catshark, Hemiscyllium trispeculare (Richardson). Two feet. Oviparous. 
Harmless. 
8. Brown-banded or spotted Catshark, Chiloscyllium punctatum (Muller and Henle). Over 
2 feet. Oviparous. Harmless. 
9. Collared Catshark, Parascyllium collare Ramsay and Ogilby. Nearly 3 feet. Oviparous. 
Harmless. 
10. Rusty Catshark, Parascyllium ferrugineum McCulloch. 2^ feet. Probably oviparous. 
Harmless. 
