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Scales 36 in median lateral series to caudal base and 2 more on 

 latter; 6 transversely, about 16 predorsal. Scales small on breast 

 and at pectoral base. Fins, except caudal base, scaleless. 



D. I, 11 (11 or 12 in description), second branched ray 1% in 

 total head length; A. 12 (11 or 12 in description), fin length 2; 

 caudal 1%, little concave behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 3; 

 pectoral 1% ; ventral 2%. 



Back dark, sides and below whitish, without silvery lateral band. 

 Fins uniform. Length, 51 mm. (Kner.) 



Samoa. Not seen since originally described. 



STOLEPHORUS ROBUSTUS (Ogilby) 



Spratelloides roUistus Ogiley, Proc. Liuii. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 22, p. 64, 

 IS97 (type locality: "Coast of New South Wales" [=Maroubra]). 



Stolephorus roiustus Waite, Mem. New South Wales Nat. Club, No. 2, p. 12, 

 1904; Rec. Austral. Mus., vol. 6, pt. 3, p. 195, 1906 (Queeusclifee).— Ogilby, 

 Aun. Queensland Mus., No. 9, p. 5, 1908 (Southport River) ; Commercial 

 Fish. Fisher. Queensland, p. 47, 1915; Mem. Queensland Mus., vol. 5. p. 

 98, 1916 (South Queensland coast). — McCulloch, Rec. Austral. Mus., vol. 13, 

 pt. 2, p. 42, pi. 11, fig. 1, 1920 (Sydney and Port Hacking; Bulwer, Queens- 

 land; Queenscliffe, Victoria; Tasmania). — Waite, Rec. South Austral. Mus., 

 vol. 2, p. 38, fig. 55, 1921. — McCxjlloch and Whitley, Mem. Queensland 

 Mus., vol. 8, pt. 2, p. 131, 1925 (reference). — Whiti-ey, Australian Zoologist, 

 vol. 4, p. 228, 1926 (North West Islet, ejected by white-capped noddies). — 

 McCulloch, Fishes of New South Wales, ed. 2, p. 16, pi. 4, fig. 51a, 1927.— 

 Whitley, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 16, p. 4, 1927 (Michaelmas Key, North 

 West Islet, Moreton Bay; Port Hacking and Shellharbor, New South 

 Wales; Queenscliffe; off Derwent River, Tasmania; types). — McCulloch, 

 Australian Mus. Mem., vol. 5, p. 37, 1929 (reference). 



Spratelloides delicatulus (not Bennett) Zii;tz, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Australia, 

 vol. 32, p. 295, 1908. 



Depth 5 to 51/2; head 334 to 41/5, width 2% to 234. Snout 31/3 to 

 3I/2 in head from snout tip; eye 3 to 3%, 1 to ll^ in snout, greater 

 than interorbital ; maxillary reaches l^ to ^ in eye, expansion 2 to 

 21/4, length 2% to 2% in head from snout tip; no teeth; interorbital 

 4l^ to 414, but slightly elevated, largely level, sides and top of head 

 with some venules. Gill rakers 12+28, lanceolate, I14 in eye; gill 

 filaments % gill rakers. 



Scales 36 to 40 in median lateral series to caudal base and 3 or 4 

 more on latter, narrowly imbricated; 9 transversely, 14 predorsal. 

 Axillary ventral scale half fin length. Scales with 1 or 2 transverse 

 vertical striae, of which only one may be complete ; circuli as parallel 

 vertical close set striae, none apical. 



D. n, 9, first branched ray 1% to 1^ in total head length ; A. 11, 

 7, first branched ray 314 to 3^4 ; caudal 1% to 1%, moderately forked, 

 lobes broad ; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to ZYg ; pectoral 1% 

 to 1% ; ventral 1% to I34. 



