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Fins red, basal half of rays paler. Soft dorsal and caudal narrowly 

 tipped yellow. Pectoral base dark reddish brown. Ventral with or 

 without golden submarginal band. Length, 121 mm to ends of 

 middle caudal rays. (Ogilby.) 

 Queensland. This is the genotype of Whitley's Caprupeneus. 



PSEUDUPENEUS SIGNATUS (Gtinther) 



Upeneus aignalus Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 20, p. 59, 1867 

 (type locality: Port Jackson, Australia). — Ogilby, Australian Mus. Mem., 

 vol. 2, p. 56, 1889.— Stead, Fishes of Australia, p. 131, 1906 (New South 

 Wales). — McCtjlloch, Fishes New South Wales, ed. 2, p. 60, 1927. 



Mullus signalus Ogilby, Edible fishes New South Wales, p. 35, pi. 11, 1893. 



Pseudupeneus signatus McCulloch, Austral. Mus. Mem., vol. 5, pt. 2, p. 223, 

 1929 (reference). 



Barbupeneus signatus Whitley, Australian Zool., vol. 6, pt. 4, p. 317, 1931 

 (reference) . 



Upeneus spilurus (not Bleeker, 1854) Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., 

 vol. 2, p. 71, 1865 (Port Jackson); Versl. Meded. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, 

 vol. 15, p. 447, 1863 (Port Jackson). 



Pseudupeneus spilurus McCulloch, Austral. Mus. Mem., vol. 5, pt. 2, p. 223, 

 1929 (reference). 



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

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

 reaches % to % in snout, expansion 1)^ to 1% in eye, length 2% to 3% in 

 head ; barbels reach opposite hind preopercle edge above, length 1 % to 

 1% in head; teeth uniserial, simple, conic, small, none on palate; inter- 

 orbital 3% to 4, but slightly elevated convexly. Gill rakers 6 + 22, 

 lanceolate, IM in giU filaments, which 1% in eye. 



Scales 26 to 28 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 to 4 more on 

 latter; 2 or 3 above, 6 or 7 below, 14 predorsal; 3 rows on cheek to 

 preopercle ridge. Tubes of lateral line with 3 to 6 tubules. Scales 

 with 4 to 6 basal radiating striae; 72 or 73 apical denticles, with 3 or 

 4 transverse series of basal elements; circuli very fine. 



D. VIII-I, 8, I, third spine 1% to 1% in head, first ray 2Ko to 2K; 

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

 lobes sharply pointed; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 ; pectoral IK to 

 IK; ventral 1% to 1%. 



Brown generally, little paler below. Blackish blotch size of eye 

 on middle of side of caudal peduncle. Dark streak from side of snout 

 to eye, then postocular along upper side of back or along lateral line 

 anteriorly. Iris grayish. Fins all brownish. 



New South Wales. Reaches 250 mm, according to McCulloch. 



U.S.N.M. No. 59986. Port Jackson, New South Wales. D. G. Stead. Length, 



110 mm to 117 mm. Two examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 59987. Taggerah, New South Wales. D. G. Stead. Length, 



98 mm. 



