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Depth 2%; head 3. Snout 2% in head; eye S%, 1% in snout, iKo in 

 interorbital; maxillary reaches % in eye, expansion 1% in eye, length 

 2% in head; teeth as translucent bony lamellae in each jaw; inter- 

 orbital little elevated, convex. 



Scales 62 in lateral line; 25 above, 60 below; small, finely ctenoid. 

 Head above, snout, maxillary, mandible and 2 or 3 elongate areas 

 above and behind eye naked, otherwise scaly. 



D. XI, 11, sixth spine 2Ko in head, second ray 2%; A. Ill, 11, third 

 spine 2% first ray 2%; caudal Iji, very little emarginate behind; least 

 depth of caudal peduncle 3; pectoral 1}^; ventral 1}^. 



Yellowish or brownish. Fins dusky without markings, except as 

 crossed by body bands basally. Fi\re broad vertical black body 

 bands, narrowing below; first from top of head through eye and down 

 cheek; second at front of spinous dorsal and before down behind pec- 

 toral base; third from seventh to tenth dorsal spines to vent; fourth 

 connects dorsal and anal rays; fifth narrow, crosses caudal peduncle. 

 Length, 390 mm. (Waite.) 



Western and South Austraha, Tasmania. 



Subgenus Scarostoma Kner 



OPLEGNATHUS FASCIATUS (Schlegel) 



Figures 9, 10 



Scarodon fasciatus Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., pts. 5-6, p. 89, pi. 46, figs. 

 1-2, 1844 (type locality: Nagasaki). 



Hoplegnathus fasciatus Richardson, Ichth. China Japan, p. 247, 1846 (Sea of 

 Japan). — Bleeker, Verb. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 1, No. 1, p. (2) 6, 

 1854 (Kaminoseki) . — Brevoort, Narr. Exped. China Japan, Perry, vol. 2, 

 p. 267, 1856 (Simoda).— GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 3, p. 357, 1861 

 (no locality). 



Hoplognathus fasciatus, Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, vol. 1, p. 394, 1876 

 (Yokohama and Nagasaki Bay). — Steindachnbr and Doderlein, Denkschr. 

 Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl. vol. 48, p. 24, 1884 (Tokio, Kochi, 

 Shikoku). — Nystrom, Bihang kon. Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handlingar, Stock- 

 holm, vol. 13, No. 4, p. 38, 1887 (Nagasaki). — Ishikawa and Matsuura, 

 Prelim. Cat. Fish. Mus. Tokyo, p. 34, 1897. 



Oplegnathus fasciatus Jordan and Fowler, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 25, p. 76, 

 1902 (Aomori, Tokyo, Misaki, Wakanoura, Kobe, Onomichi, Hiroshima, 

 Tsuruga, Hakata). — Jordan and Thompson, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 6, 

 No. 4, p. 259, 1914 (Shimonoseki, Kobe, Misaki). — Izuka and Matsuura, 

 Cat. Zool. Spec. Tokyo Mus., p. 147, 1920 (Higo). — Sowerby, Naturalist in 

 Manchuria, vol. 4, p. 195, 1930 (Fusan). — Schmidt and Lindberg, Bull. 

 Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., p. 1140, 1930 (Tsuruga).— Schmidt, Bull. Acad. 

 Sci. U. S. S. R., p. Ill, 1931 (Obama); Trans. Pacific Comm. Acad. Sci. 

 U. S. S. R., vol. 2, p. 74, 1931 (Nagasaki). — Anonymous, Illustrat. Jap. 

 Aquat. Plants Animal., vol. 1, pi. 31, fig. 3, 1931. 



Oplegnathus fasciata Jordan and Hubbs, Mem. Carnegie Mus., vol. 10, No. 2, 

 p. 245, 1925 (Toba, Tatoku Island, Mikawa Bay, Toyama, Mujazu, Misaki). 



Hoplognathus krusensternii GtJNTHER, Zool. Rec, 1868, Pisces, p. 146 (on Schle- 

 gel; name only). 

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