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slate black blotch above and below. Membranes of most fins trans- 

 parent, dusky dots sprinkled on those of spinous dorsal and each 

 dorsal ray with 4 or 5 clusters of dark dots. 



New South Wales and Tasmania. The pale axial longitudinal 

 band embracing the lateral line on the caudal peduncle hardly visible. 

 This species is quite distinct from Sillago maculata, with which it 

 was wrongly identified by Giinther and Day. Its deeply emarginate 

 tail and more numerous cheek scales will easily distinguish it. 



U.S.N.M. No. 59939. Off Lake Macquarie, New South Wales. D. G. Stead. 

 Length, 240 mm. 



Sillago rohusta Stead '* known only from the unique holotype about 

 150 mm long is said to differ from Sillago bassensis in having its 

 ventrals inserted below the origin of the first dorsal, whereas in 

 Sillago bassensis the ventrals are inserted in advance of the first 

 dorsal. 



SILLAGO MACULATA Quoy and Gaimard 



Sillago maculata Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool., p. 261, pi. 6, fig. 2, 

 1824 (type locality: Sydney; Port Jackson). — Ctjvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 

 vol. 3, p. 411, 1829 (Port Jackson).— GtJNTHER, Qat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 

 p. 245, 1860 (Sydney). — Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, p. 127, 1865 (Java; 

 Manila). — Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., 

 vol. 53, pt. 1, p. 444, 1866 (Port Jackson); vol. 60, pt. 1, p. 562, 1870 

 (Singapore). — Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Acclimat. Soc. Victoria, vol. 1, p. 74, 

 1872 (Victoria). — Bleeker, Verh. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 14, No. 



4, p. 71, 1874 (Singapore, Bintang, Lepar, Java, Celebes, Philippines). — 

 Castelnau, Res. Fishes Australia (Off. Rec. Philadelphia Cent. Exhib, 

 Victoria), p. 16, 1875 (Swan River). — Alleyne and Macleay, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. New South Wales, vol. 1, p. 279, 1876 (No. 4 Island, Howick Group).— 

 Castelnau, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 3, p. 380, 1879 (Port 

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

 80, pt. 1, p. 369, 1879 (Endeavour River). — Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godefifroy, 

 No. 7, p. 44, 1879 (Bowen). — Karoli, Termdsz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5, 

 p. 162, 1881 (Cantor). — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 



5, p. 566, 1881.— Woods, Fish. Fisher. New South Wales, p. 65, pi. 23, 

 1882.— PoHL, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 9, p. 32, 1884 (Bowen).— Ogilby, 

 Cat. Fish. New South Wales, p. 31, 1886. — Saville-Kent, Great Barrier Reef, 

 pp. 292, 370, 1893 (Queensland). — Ogilby, Edible fishes New South Wales, 

 p. 101, 1893.— Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 500, 1895 (compiled).— 

 Ogilby, Handb. Sydney, p. 133, 1898. — Waite, Sea Fisher. Rep. Thetis, 

 p. 30, 1898 (Shoalhaven to Manning River, New South Wales, 16 to 84 

 fathoms); Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 4, p. 190, 1902; Mem. New South 

 Wales Nat. Club, No. 2, p. 31, 1904. — Pellegrin, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 

 vol. 30, p. 83, 1905 (Bale d' Along, Tonkin). — Stead, Fishes of Australia, 

 p. 109, fig. 41, 1906 (New South Wales, Queensland, West Australia); 

 Edible fishes New South Wales, p. 64, pi. 34, 1908.— McCulloch, Zool. 

 Res. Endeavour, vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 61, 1911 (Sydney, Gulf of Carpentaria, 

 Fremantle). — Weber, Siboga Exped., vol. 57, p. 267, 1913 (Makassar). — 



» Stead, New fishes of New South Wales, p. 7, pi. 2, 1908 (type locality: New South Wales). McCul- 

 loch, Zool. Res. Endeavour, vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 60, 1911 (reference in key); Fishes New South Wales, ed. 2, 

 p. 61, 1927. 



