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Family PEMPHERID^. 



Genus Pempheris, Cuvier. 



Pempheris MULTIRADIATA, Klunztnger. 



Pempheris muUiradiatus, Klunzinger, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. 



Wien., Ixxx., i., 1879, p. 381. 

 Pempheris macrolepis, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. 



Wales, v., 1881, p. 516; id., Waite, Mem. Austr. Mus., 



iv., 1899, P- 73' pl- X. 

 Pempheris lineatus, Ogilby, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, x. , 



1886, p. 447. 

 Having carefully examined all the material at my disposal, 

 I have no doubt that P. mnliiradiata is identical with P. 

 macrolepis, as has been suggested by Macleay. ^ Klunzinger's 

 description agrees exactly with my specimens which come 

 from various localities between the Bellinger River, New 

 South Wales, and Kingston, South Australia. In twelve 

 examples I find the following number of fin-rays and scales :• — 

 D. V./11-13, A. iii./32-38, lateral Ime to the hypural 46-50. 



Waite {loc. cit.) has suggested that P. multiradiata is 

 identical with P. compressa, Shaw, but I can see no reason 

 for this conclusion. The former has most of its scales cycloid, 

 only those on the anterior and lower portion of the head, 

 breast, and on the back before the dorsal fin being ctenoid. 

 In P. compressa all are very distinctly ctenoid, and they are 

 much smaller, there being 62-64 along the lateral line instead 

 of only 46-50. 



The "Endeavour" specimens were taken at the following 

 stations : — 



Off Bellengen, New South Wales, 40-52 fathoms. 



Between Port Stephens and Newcastle, New South Wales, 

 22-60 fathoms. 



Shoalhaven Bight, New South Wales, 15-45 fathoms. 



Off the east coast of Flinders Island and north of Goose 

 Island, Bass Strait. 



Forty miles off Kingston, South Australia, 30 fathoms. 



Pempheris AFFiNis, sp. nov. 

 (Plate vii., Fig. i.) 

 D. v., lo-ii ; A. iii. 38-41 ; P. 16-17 ; V. i. 5 ; C. 17; 1. lat. 

 60-62 ; 1. tr. 7 + 19. Depth 2^-2^, head sis^ in the length 

 to the hypural. Eye 2-2^ in the head; interorbital width li- 

 if in the eye and about twice as wide as the snout is long. 

 Depth of caudal peduncle f of the eye. 



I Macleay— Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, ix., 1884. p. 21 



