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Chrysophrys guttulatus Whitlet, Australian ZooL, vol. 6, pt. 4, p. 319, 1931 



(Jervis Bay, New South Wales). 

 Pagrus micropterus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 163, 1830 (type 



locality: Mouth of Thames River, New Zealand). 

 Pagrus latus Richardson, Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci., vol. 9, p. 392, 1842 (type 



locality: Between Opooragi and Owbooragi, New Zealand). 

 Sciaena lata (Solander) Richardson, Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci., vol. 9, p. 392, 



1842. 



Depth 2% to 2%; head ^% to 3^, width 2 to 2%. Snout 2}^ to 2% 

 in head; eye 3 to 4, 1% to 1% in snout, 1 to IK in interorbital ; maxillary 

 reaches % to eye or % in eye, expansion 1% to 2 in eye, length 2% to 

 2% in head; 4 front upper and 6 front lower canines, rather small 

 or moderate molars biserial in each jaw; interorbital 3K to 3%, well 

 convex; narrowest preorbital width less than or nearly equals eye. 

 Gill rakers 7 + 11, short, lanceolate, ^ of gill filaments, which 1 % 

 in eye. 



Scales 54 to 56 in lateral line to caudal base and 6 to 8 more on 

 latter; 9 or 10 above, 16 or 17 below, 40 to 45 predorsal forward 

 opposite front eye edge, 7 or 8 rows on cheek to preopercle ridge 

 though none on flange. Scales with 7 to 11 basal radiating striae; 

 80 to 103 short weak apical denticles, with 12 to 14 transverse series 

 of basal elements; circuli very fine. 



D. XII, 10, I, fourth spine 2 to 2}^ in head length, third ray 2% 

 to 3; A. Ill, 8, I, third spine 2% to 3, first ray 3% to 3^; caudal 2% 

 to 3 in rest of body, deeply forked; pectoral 2% to 3; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 2% to 3 in head; ventral 1% to 1%. 



Back drab-brown, sides and below paler and under surfaces of both 

 head and body whitish. Iris dull yellowish white. Fins uniformly 

 pale brown. 



Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South and Western Aus- 

 tralia, and New Zealand. The reference to Scomber auratus Houttuyu 

 in my "Fishes of Oceania" is wrong, and the species should have been 

 credited to Labrus auratus Schneider. Jordan and Snyder have 

 noticed (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 23, p. 747, 1901) that Scomber 

 auratus Houttuyn is evidently synonymous with Scomber jajponicus 

 Houttuyn, printed previously in the same work. If Pagrosomus 

 major (Schlegel) be admitted as distinct, as suggested by Jordan and 

 Thompson in 1912, Houttuyn's Sparus auratus falls with it. In my 

 "Fishes of Oceania" I also united Pagrosomus auratus (Schneider) 

 with Pagrosomus major (Schlegel), as these two so-called species are 

 only sUghtly distinct and largely accepted on their geographical 

 distribution. 



A.N.S.P. Nos. 49331 to 49333. Melbourne, Australia. Mrs. Agnes F. Kenyon. 

 Length, 286 to 293 mm. 



