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rakers 5 + 17, lanceolate, spinescent, 1)^ in gill filaments, which 1^ in 

 eye; 2 above and 3 below rudimentary. 



Scales 28 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 or 3 more on latter; 

 2 above, 5 below, 9 predorsai forward opposite nostril, 3 or 4 rows on 

 cheek with lowest row on preopercle flange border of which, moderately 

 wide, naked. Scales with 5 basal radiating striae; 130 to 178 minute 

 slender apical denticles with 7 or 8 transverse series of slender basal 

 elements ; circuli very fine. 



D. VIII, I, 7, I, third spine IK to 1% in head, sixth branched ray 

 1%; A. I, 6, I, first branched ray 2}^ to 2%; caudal IKo to 1%, deeply 

 forked, slender lobes pointed; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 

 S%; pectoral IM to 1%; ventral 1% to iK- 



Generally brown, olivaceous tinge on back, paler below. Obscure 

 dark lines on back, made up of dark line across each scale exposure, 

 thus forming longitudinal Unes. Six or 7 dark or dusky fines across 

 front of head and 2 parallel obliquely from eye to maxillary. Iris 

 pale brown. Fins largely uniform brownish. Soft dorsal ochraceous, 

 with 2 parallel rather close set submarginal dusky fines and last 3 or 

 4 rays with 3 or 4 obfique dark lines. Anal uniform pale ochraceous. 



New Zealand, Victoria, New South Wales. 



A.N.S.P. Nos. 49313 to 49315i Melbourne, Australia. Mrs. Agnes F. Kenyon. 

 Length, 172 to 208 mm. 



Genus MULLOIDICHTHYS Whitley 



Mulloidichthys Whitley, Rec. Austral. Mus., vol. 17, No. 3, p. 122, 1929. (Type, 

 Mullus flavolineatus LAC^piiDE, virtually, Mulloidichthys Whitley proposed 

 to replace Mulloides Bleeker.) 



Mulloides (not Richardson, 1843) Bleeker, Verb. Batav. Genootsch. (Percoid.), 

 vol. 22, p. 6, 1849. (Type, Mullus flavolineatus LAcfiPfeoE, monotypic.) 



Body usually somewhat slender. Snout moderately long, usuaUy 

 with convex profile. Eye moderate to large. Maxillary short, usuaUy 

 falls weU short of eye. Jaws with several rows or narrow villiform 

 bands of teeth. Palate toothless. Opercle with small flat spine. 

 Barbels moderate. Snout scaly. 



Species few, mostly of small size in the Indo-Pacific. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



o*. Body uniform, brown above, fins yellowish vanicolensis. 



a*. At least one yellow median lateral band from head to caudal persistent. 



6'. No yellow line (in addition to lateral band) on head auriflamma. 



fe2. A yellow hne on head (besides golden median lateral band) . _ ery thrinus. 



a*. Median lateral golden band, besides narrower one above and 3 below parallel 



(all fading in preserved examples); usually dark lateral blotch before end 



of depressed pectoral samoensis. 



a*. Body rose red, with 5 darker transverse broad bands (fading in preserved 

 examples) pflugeri. 



