244 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Three examples. Romblon. March 26, 1908. Length, 36 to 43 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 52446. Apia, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries (04797) . Length, 287 mma 



GERRES OVATUS Gunther 



Gerres ovatus Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 343, 1859 (type locality: 

 Australia) (figure not published); vol. 4, p. 257, 1862 (Australia). — Castel- 

 NAU, Proc. Zool. Acclimat. Soc. Victoria, vol. 2, p. 139, 1873 (West Aus- 

 tralia); Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 3, p. (354) 391, 1879 (Port 

 Jackson). — Klunzingee, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., vol. 

 80, pt. 1, p. 354, 1879 (Port Darwin). — Saville-Kent, Great Barrier Reef, 

 p. 369, 1893 (Queensland).— Ogilby, Edible Fish., Crust., New South Wales, 

 p. 147, 1893 (New South Wales, Moreton Bay).— Waite, Prelim. Rep. Thetis 

 Exp., p. 33, 1898 (off Newcastle, New South Wales, in 16 to 19 fathoms).— 

 McCuLLOCH, Fishes New South Wales, ed. 2, p. 58, pi. 24, fig. 210a, 1927. 



Xystoema ovaium Ogilby, Handb. Sydney, p. 129, 1898. 



Xystaema ovatum Waite, Mem. Austral. Mus., vol. 4, pt. 1, p. 83, pi. 13, 1899. — 

 RouGHLEY, Fishes of Australia, p. 119, pi. 38, 1916. 



Xystaema ovaia Stead, Fishes of Australia, p. 117, 1906 (New South Wales, 

 Queensland, West Australia). 



Depth 2% to 2%; head 2% to 3K, width 1% to 2%. Snout 3K to 3K 

 in head; eye 3 to 3K, greater than snout in young to l)i v/ith age, 1 to 

 \)i in interorbital; maxillary reaches to or )i in eye, expansion 3 in eye, 

 length 2% to 3 in head; interorbital 2)i to 3, broadly convex. Gill 

 rakers 6 + 7, short points, longest )i of gill filaments, which 1% in eye. 



Scales 38 to 40 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 or 4 more on 

 latter; 5 above, 9 below, 16 to 20 predorsal extending forward opposite 

 nostrils and premaxillary groove entirely scaled over; 2 or 3 rows of 

 scales on cheek to preopercle ridge. Scales with 6 or 7 basal radiating 

 striae; circuli very fine. 



D. IX, 10, I, second spine !){ to 1% in head, first ray 2Ko to 2K; 

 A. Ill, 7, I, third spine 2 to 2Ko, first ray 1% to 2; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 2^ to 3 in combined head and body to caudal base; pectoral 

 2% to 3. 



Back brown or olivaceous, sides and below whitish. Iris slate. 

 Fins pale. Dorsals dusky terminally, blackish on spinous fin. Anals 

 and caudal with some brownish. 



New South Wales, Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Aus- 

 tralia. 



U.S.N.M. No. 42030. Port Jackson, New South Wales. Australian Museum. 



Length, 191 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 69936. Port Hacking, New South Wales. D. G. Stead. Length, 



61 to 161 mm. Six examples. 



GERRES SUBFASCIATUS Cuvier 



Gerres subfasciatus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 6, p. 477, 1830 (type locality: 

 Port Jackson). — GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 343, 1859 (no 

 locality); vol. 4, p. 257, 1862 (no locality). — Castelnau, Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 New South Wales, vol. 3, pp. 354, 391, 1879 (Port Jackson).— McCulloch, 

 Fishes New South Wales, ed. 2, p. 58, 1927. — Schmidt, Trans. Pacific 

 Comm. Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., vol. 1, p. 53, 1930 (Itoman, Okinawa, Riu 

 Kiu). 



