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Clear reddish. Front edge and tips of dorsal, also lower anal 

 edge, dusky. Length 170 mm. (Ivliinzinger.) 



Queensland. Klunzinger's excellent figure is shown with variable 

 dark blotches or cloudings on the body. 



PEMPHERIS COMPRESSUS (Shaw) 



S paries? compressus Shaw, Journ. Voy. New South Wales, White, 1790, p. 267, 

 pi., fig. 2. New South Wales. 



Pempheris compressus GiJNTHEE, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 508 

 (Swan River; Port Jackson; Australia). — Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, 

 No. 6, 1877, p. 14 (Sydney). — Castelnau, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South 

 Wales, vol. 3, 1878, p. (352) 384 (Port Jackson).— Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. 

 Godeffroy, No. 7, 1879, p. 46 (Sydney). — Stead, Fish and Fisher. New 

 South Wales, 1883, p. 17.— Pohl, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 9, 1884. p. 30 

 (Sydney).— Waite, Prelim. Rep. Thetis Exp., 1898, p. 28 (off Broken Head 

 in 28 fathoms). — Stead, Fishes of Australia, 1907, p. 90 (New South Wales) : 

 Edible Fishes of New South Wales, 1908, p. 49, pi. 18.— Ogilby, Mem. 

 Queensland Mus., vol. 2, Dec. 10, 1918, p. 66 (metropolitan district New 

 South Wales). 



Pempheris compressa McCuixoch, Australian Zoologist, vol. 1, pt. 2, 1919, p. 

 89, pi. 26, fig. 223a. 



Kurtus argenteus Schneider, Syst. Ichth. Bloch, 1801, p. 164, pi. 41. New 

 Holland. (On 8i}arus ? compressus Shaw.) 



Pempheris touea Citvieb, Regne Animal, ed. 2, vol. 2, 1829, p. 195. (On Spar us 

 ? compressus Shaw.) 



Catalufa umbra Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 40, 1911, p. 528. Misaki, 

 Sagami ; vol. 42, 1912, p. 412, pi. 52, fig. 3. 



Depth 2 to 21/5; head 3 to 31^, width 1% to 1%. Snout 4-% to 6 

 in head from snout tip ; eye 2yV to 2^^, greatly exceeds snout or inter- 

 orbital ; maxillary reaches % to % in eye, expansion 2% to 3 in eye, 

 length !■% to 1% in head from snout tip; teeth very small and in 

 narrow bands in jaws and on vomer and palatines, tongue toothless ; 

 interorbital 3 to 3%, convex. Gill rakers 11 + 24, lanceolate, slender, 

 1% in eye, gill filaments l^ of gill rakers. 



Scales 59 to 67 in lateral line to caudal base and 22 more on caudal 

 medially; 11 or 12 scales above lateral line, 25 to 27 below, 40 to 42 

 predorsal forward till over front pupil edge. Scales all ctenoid. 

 Scales with 8 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 23 to 24, with 

 3 to 5 transverse series of basal elements ; circuli fine. 



D. VI, 10, I or 11, I, first branched ray I14 in total head length; 

 A. Ill, 33, I to 38, I, first branched ray 1% to 21/5; caudal 1 to li^. 

 hind edge deeply lunate; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 3; 

 pectoral 1% to 1^5 ; ventral 1% to 1%. 



Uniform dark brown or umber. Iris slaty brown. Dorsal brown, 

 front edge broadly dusky. Front of anal dusky, rest of anal and 

 caudal brownish. Pectoral pale brown. Ventral brown, dusky 

 terminally. 



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