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Upeneus vlamingii Castelnatj, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 3, p. 372, 

 1879 (Port Jackson). 



Depth 2% to 2%; head 2% to Z%, width 2 to 2)U. Snout 2% to 2)i 

 in head; eye ZYa to 4%, 1% to 2)i in snout, greater than interorbital in 

 young to 1 K with age ; maxillary reaches % or to eye, expansion 1 ){ to 



2 in eye, length 2% to 2% in head; barbels reach opposite hind pre- 

 opercle edge or to scale before ventral in young, length \)i to 1}^ 

 in head; teeth uniserial, short, conic, about 30 in each jaw, also short 

 irregular row across vomer; interorbital 3% to 4K, convex. Gill 

 rakers 5+16, lanceolate, V/i in gill filaments, which V/i in eye. 



Scales 25 to 27 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 or 3 more on latter; 



3 above, 6 below, 11 or 12 predorsal scales forward about last fifth 

 in snout length; 3 rows on cheek below eye and lower preopercle edge. 

 Tubes in lateral line all finely arborescent. Scales with five basal 

 radiating striae; 74 to 185 apical denticles, with 3 to 6 transverse series 

 of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. VIII-I, 8, I, third spine 1% to \% in head, first branched ray 

 2)i to 2%; A. II, 6, I, first branched ray 2Ko to 2)^; caudal 1% to 1%, 

 deeply forked, lobes sharply pointed; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 IK to 2K; ventral l)i to \%. 



Uniform dark brown. Iris slaty brown. Barbels brown. Fins all 

 brown, without markings. 



New Zealand, Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, New 

 South Wales, Queensland, Polynesia. 



U.S.N.M. No. 59907. Port Jackson, New South Wales. D. G. Stead. Length, 

 76 to 215 mm. Four examples. 



UPENEICHTBYS VLAMINGD (Cuvier) 



Upeneus vlamingii Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, p. 452, pi. 71, 1829 (type 

 locality: Queen Charlotte Sound). — Richardson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 9, p. 211, 1842 (Motuaro Island, Queen Charlotte Sound); Travels in 

 New Zealand, Dieflfenbach, vol. 2, p. 207, 1843. — Castelnau, Proc. Zool. 

 Acclimat. Soc. Victoria, vol. 2, p. 39, 1873 (Melbourne market); Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. New South Wales, vol. 3, p. (350) 372, 1879 (Port Jackson). 



Upeneoides vlamingii GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 400, 1859 (com- 

 piled). — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 5, p. 403, 1881 

 (Port Jackson, Port Phillip). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1923, p. 44 (Melbourne); 1929 (1930) p. 648 (Melbourne examples). 



Upeneichthys vlamingii Castelnau, Rec. London Internat. Exhib., pt. 7, No. 5, 

 p. 9, 1873 (Victoria). — Klunzinger, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. 

 Kl., vol. 80, pt. 1, p. 354, 1879 (Hobson Bay). 



Depth 3)^ to 3%; head 3 to 3K, width 2}^ to 2%. Snout 1% to 2 in 

 head; eye 4K to 4%, 2 to 2K in snout, 1 to 1}^ in interorbital; maxillary 

 reaches % to % to eye, expansion 1% to 2 in eye, length 3 to 3Ko in 

 head; barbels 1% to lYi, reach little behind hind opercle edge; teeth 

 small, conic, irregularly biserial, at least in front of each jaw; also 

 small patch on each palatine; interorbital 3% to 4^, nearly level. Gill 



