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Scales 53 in lateral line to caudal base and 9 more on latter; 6 

 (5 show on figure) above, 12 below, 6 rows on cheek. Scales with 

 more or less complete fine circuU; 37 minute apical marginal pomts 

 show on figure, with imperfect submarginal row. 



D IX, 14, fourth spine 1% in total head length, first ray 2%; A. ill, 

 10 first ray 22/3; caudal Z% in combined head and body to caudal base, 

 deeply forked; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% in total head; pec- 

 toral 1%; ventral l%o. , • j 

 Top of head dark ohve to level of eye, with paler extension around 

 eye Top of snout of both jaws, blackish. Back dark ohve-gray with 

 bronze and steel-blue reflections. Sides gradually lighter to ventra 

 edge Rather more than one-third of each scale in longitudmai 

 rows darker and more olive than fighter gray interval, form 16 or 17 

 longitudinal stripes, fainter toward belly. Cheeks pearly, with 

 bronze reflections on opercle, upper hind edge and spot about middle 

 of front edge darker. Throat and maxillary white. Ins bronze 

 yellowish, and green. Fins light gray, speckled with black dorsal 

 and anal flecked with blackish with imperfect narrow blackish 

 edge to dorsal. Caudal blackish ohve, hind margin and tips blackish 

 Pectoral dark. Ventral nearly colorless. Length, 406 mm. (McCoy.) 

 New South Wales, Victoria, South and Western Austraha. 



ARRIPIS TRUTTA (Schneider) 



Sciaena trutta (Forster) Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, p. 542, 1801 (type local- 

 ity Cook Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound, New Zealand). 



Perca trutta Cttvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, p. 53, 1828 (New Zealand). 



Arrivis trutta Gill Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., vol. 6, p. 116, 1893 (reference) .- 

 Stead, Fishes of Austraha, pp. 113, 116, 1906.-Waite, Rf; Canterbury 

 Mus., vol. 1, No. 1, p. 20, 1907 (reference) ; vol. 1, No. 3, p. 219, IQH (Palhser 

 Bay, in 11 to 38 fathoms) .—Roughley, Fishes of Australia, p. lib vL6i, 

 1916— Waite, Rec. South Austral. Mus., vol. 2, No. 1, p. 104, fig. IbO, 

 1921.-FOWLER, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1923, p. 44 (Melbourne) - 

 McCuLLOCH, Fishes New South Wales, ed. 2, p. 55, pi. 23, fig. 200 b, 19^/. 



Perca marginata Cxtvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, p. 53, 1828 ("Peron avait 



rapports de son voyage") [locality unknown, probably TasmamaJ. 

 Centropristes f truttaceus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, p. 50, 1829 (type locality. 



ArrilisllTceZGiJf^TnBn, Cat. Fish, Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 254 1859 (^opi^'^);-- 

 Castelnau, Proc. Zool. Acclimat. Soc. Victoria, vol. 1, p. 52, 1872 (Victoria) , 

 London Internat. Exhib. Cat. Victoria, pp. 132, 133, 1872 (Victoria); Proc 

 Zool. Acclimat. Soc. Victoria, vol. 2, p. 127, 1873 (Freemantle); Proc. Lmn. 

 Soc. New South Wales, vol. 3, p. 350, 1879 (Port Jackson) .-Klunzinger 

 Sitz Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., vol. 80, pt. 1, p. 347, 1879 

 (Wellington, King Georges Sound, Hobsons Bay) .-Johnston Proc Roy 

 Soc. Tasmaiia, 1882 (1883), p. 110 (Tasmania) .-McCoy, Prodromus Zool. 

 Victoria, vol. 1, pis. 16-17, 1885. or irqq ftvoe 



Centropristis salar Richardson, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 7, p. 95, 1839 (type 

 locality: Port Arthur, Van Diemens Land). ?« iqao 



Centropristes salar Richardson, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 3, p. 78 184^ 

 (Port Arthur, Tasmania); Ichth. Voy. Erebus and Terror, pi. 20, figs. 4r-b, 

 1844-1848 (1845). 



