and trunk 1 1/4 in tail. Snout 5 1/2 in head; eye 9 1/2, 1 
2/3 in snout, almost equals interorhital; mouth cleft ex¬ 
tends 1 3/4 eye diameters behind eye, length 2 1/10 in 
head; teeth uniserial, upper small anteriorly, then large 
and decreasing aagain backwards; young with 2 large inner 
medial teeth on each maxillary; 1 or 2 large median depress- 
ible premaxillary fangs; small uniserial vomerine teeth most¬ 
ly rounded. Gill opening about 3/4 of eye. 
Dorsal origin midway in postrictal space, fin little 
higher than anal. 
Light brown, darker posteriorly, with wide meshed net¬ 
work of dark lines on upper half of body. Dark line near 
back begins with dorsal and follows it until lost on tail, 
little distinct in young. Some black lines extend from be¬ 
hind mouth toward gill opening, head otherwise plain. An¬ 
teriorly dorsal and anal marked like body, posteriorly very 
dark with w'hitish margins. Length 325 to 720 mm. 
(Me Culloch.) 
Western Australia. 
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