Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
A catalogue of dark nebulae and globules has been compiled from a study of the ESO-B and SRC-J sky atlas for galactic longitudes 230°<1<360°. This catalogue closes the great southern gap open since the work of Lynds (1962), We have listed 489 dark nebulae and 311 globules. The catalogue contains positions, sizes, opacities and the van den Bergh classification (1972) on the filamentary morphology of dark clouds. We present statistics concerning the northern and southern distributions and sizes of the nebulae.