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222a. M. zebra. Crenidens zebra Richardson, Ichth. Erebus & Terror, 184G, 



p. 70. Girella zebra Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien. liii, 186C, 



p. 430, pi. 0, 2 (PI. xxv). 



The specimen described and figured by Steindachner was said to have been 



taken in Port Jackson, but no other appears to have been recognised from 



New South Wales. 



(IV. Family Pempheridae. 



A. Scales of the body ctenoid. Pempheris (223). 



AA. Scales of the body cycloid. Liopempheris (224). 



223. Pempheris Cuvier, Reg. Auim. 2nd ed. ii, 1829, p. 195 (touea = com- 

 pressa). 



223a. P. compressa. Bullseye. Sparus compressus Shaw, White's Voy. 



N.S. Wales, 1790, p. 267, pi. 12. P. compressus Stead, Ed. Fish. N.S. 



Wales, 1908, p. 49, pi. 18 (PI. xxvi). 

 A small species covered with rough scales. Length about 8 inches. 



224. Liopempheris Ogilby, Mem. Qld. Mus. ii, 1913. p. 62 (multiradiata) . 



A. 46-50 scales on lateral line to hypural joint. multiradiata (224a). 



AA. About 60 scales on lateral line to hypural joint. affinis (224b). 



224a. L. multiradiata. Big-scaled Bullseye. Pempheris multiradiatus 

 Kluuzinger, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien. lxxx. i, 1879, p. 381. P. macro- 

 lepis Waite, Mem. Austr. Mus. iv. 1, 1899, p. 73, pi. 10. 

 Occurs in water of moderate depths where it is captured by the trawlers. 

 Length about 8 inches. 



224b. L. affinis. Pempheris affinis McCulloch, Zool. Res. Endeavour i. 1, 



1911, p. 45, pi. 7, 1 (PI. xxvi). 

 A rare species less than 6 inches long. 



CV. Family Monodactylidae. 



A. 8 dorsal spines, scales finely ctenoid. Monodactylus (225). 



AA. 5 dorsal spines; scales cycloid. Schuettea (226). 



225. Monodactylus Lacep., IT. N. Poiss. iii, 1802, p. 131 (falciformis). 

 225a. M. argenteus. Silver Batfish. Cha-etodon argenteus Linn., Syst. 



Nat. 10th ed. i, 1758, p. 272. Psettus argenteus Richardson, Ichth. 



Erebus & Terror, 1846, p. 57, pi. 35, 1-3 (PI. xxvi). 



A widely distributed tropical fish which ranges southward to Sydney. 

 Length 8 inches. 



226. Schuettf.a Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien. liii. 1, 1866, p. 449 



(scalaripinnis) . 

 226a. S. scalaripinnis. Id. Steindachner, Ibid., pi. 6, Id. McCulloch, 



Zool. Res. Endeavour i. I, 1911, p. 81, pi. 15 (PI. xxvi). 

 Occasionally captured in nets on the coast near Sydney. Length 8 inches. 



CVI. Family Scorpididae. 



A. Dorsal spines increasing in height backwards, lower than the anterior ravs. 



Scorpis (227). 

 AA. Median dorsal spines longest, higher than the rays. Atypuhihys (228). 



