BY J. DOUGLAS OGILBY. mal | 
Type locality: Brisbane River. 
Jeff’s Red Mullet is closely related to Upeneus signatus, 
Gunther, but the pattern of coloration is so widely different 
that I deem it better to call attention to it thus, more 
especially as Gunther’s species has never been recorded 
from this State, nor in fact, further north than the Port 
Jackson District, where it is common. 
Nine species of “‘ red mullets ”’ have up to the present 
been recorded from the Queensland Coast, but this number 
will doubtless be largely augmented when our northern 
waters shall have been more critically exploited, since at 
least ten other Indo-Malayan forms have already been 
noticed from British New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, 
and the New Hebrides, namely :—Upeneus sulphureus, 
Mulloides ruber, Pseudupeneus cherserydrus, P. filamentosus, 
P. barberinoides, P. indicus, P. malabaricus, P. bifasciatus, 
P. trifasciatus, and P. pleurostigma. 
Our recorded species are as follow :— 
i. UPENEUS Cuvier, Régne Anim., ed. 2, ii, p. 157, 
1829 (vittatus). 
Bands of villiform teeth in both jaws, on the 
vomer and the palatines. 
1. vittatus Forskal, Descr. Anim., pak; WTS: 
2. tragula Richardson, Ichth. China & Japan, p. 220, 
1846. 
3. roseus Castelnau, Res. Fish. Austr., p. 11, 1875. 
ii. Muxtorpses Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., iii, 
1852, p. 697 (flavolineatus = auriflamma). 
Bands of villiform teeth in both jaws ; vomer and 
palatines toothless. 
auriflamma Forskal, ibid., p. 30. 
5. armatus de Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, ix, 1884, 
p. 458 (2 samoensis). 
il. PSEUDUPENEUS Bleeker, Mem. Poiss. Cote de 
Guinée, p. 56, 1862 (prayensis). 
A single series of stout conical teeth in each jaw ; 
vomer and palatines toothless. 
. barberinus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iii, p. 406, 1802. 
. rubroniger de Vis, ibid. 
jefft Ogilby, ut supra. 
porosus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., iil, 
p. 455, 1829. 
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