FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE SEAS AND ADJACENT WATERS 205 

 Subgenus Kyphosus Lac6pede 



KYPHOSUS SYDNEYANUS (Gunther) 



Pimelepterus sydneyanus Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. 18, p. 368 

 1886 (type locality: Port Jackson). — Ogilby, Edible fishes New South 

 Wales, p. 40, pi. 16, 1893. 



Kyphosus sydneyanus Ogilby, Handbook of Sydney, p. 130, 1898. — Waite, Mem. 

 New South Wales Nat. Club, 1904, p. 26. — Stead, Fishes of Australia, 

 p. 91, 1906 (New South Wales); Edible fishes New South Wales, p. 53, 1908. 

 — ZiETz, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Australia, vol. 23, p. 267, 1909. — Waite, 

 Rec. Canterbury Mus., vol. 1, pt. 4, p. 319, 1912; Trans. New Zealand Inst., 

 vol. 45, p. 219, 1913. — McCulloch, Rec. West Austral. Mus., vol. 1, pt. 

 3, p. 219, 1914. — RouGHLEY, Fishes of Australia, p. 58, pi. 15, 1916 (New 

 South Wales, South Australia, New Zealand). — McCulloch, Rec. Austral. 

 Mus., vol. 13, No. 2, pi. 12, fig. 2, 1920 (Sydney) .—Waite, Rec. South 

 Austral. Mus., vol. 2, No. 1, p. 113, fig. 173, 1921.— McCulloch, Fishes 

 New South Wales, ed. 2, p. 62, pi. 25, fig. 220a, 1927. 



Segutilum sydneyanum Whitley, Austrahan Zool., vol. 6, pt. 4, p. 319, 1931 

 (reference) . 



Pachymetopon grande (not Gtjntheh) Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South 

 Wales, vol. 5, p. 406, 1881 (Port Jackson). 



Pimelepterus meridionalis Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1886, p. 539 (type 

 locality: Port Jackson, Australia). 



Pimelepterus drewi Hector, Trans. New Zealand Inst., vol. 19, p. 590, 1887 

 (type locality: Kapiti Island, New Zealand). (Name only.) 



Depth 2Ko to 3 with age; head 3%, width 2}^. Snout 3K in head; 

 eye 4, IK in snout, 1% in interorbital ; jaws even; maxillary reaches 

 eye, length Sji in head; teeth uniserial, angular patch on vomer and 

 small patch on each palatine; interorbital 3 in head, convexly elevated; 

 preopercle and preorbital serrated. 



Scales 63 along above lateral line to caudal base, 52 in lateral line; 

 10 above, 20 below; predorsal scales extend forward opposite nostrils; 

 cheek scaled. 



D. XI, 12, fifth spine 2}^ in head, first ray 2%; A. Ill, 11, third 

 spine 3%, first ray 2%; least depth of caudal peduncle 2; pectoral 1%; 

 ventral 1%; caudal 3 in combined head and body to caudal base. 



Dark silver, with longitudinal stripes extending along sides between 

 each row of scales. Head silver and bronze. Bronze stripe across 

 eye, another over cheek, between which brilliant silver area. Opercle 

 blackish. First dorsal olive-black, other vertical fins fighter, though 

 dark towards edges. Blackish spot beneath pectoral at lower angle 

 of its base. Length, 245 mm; reaches 770 mm. (McCulloch.) 



Western and South Australia, New South Wales, and New Zealand. 

 Perhaps not distinct from Kyphosus higibhus. 



KYPHOSUS BIGIBBUS Lac6p6de 



Kyphosus higibhus LACEPfeoE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, p. 115, pi. 8, fig. 1, 1802 

 (no locality). — Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1931, p. 248 

 (Port Sudan, Red Sea). 



Xyster fuscus Lacep&de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, pp. 484, 485, 1803 (no locality). 



(On COMMERSON.) 



