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RECORDS OF VS. A . MUSEUM. 
Dorsal tins separate or united by a low membrane ; the first is 
inserted well behind the ventrals, the second just in advance of the 
vent and terminating far behind the anal. Pectoral and ventral 
pointed, the outer ray of the latter sometimes produced. Caudal 
emarginate. 
Colour.— Sandy yellow, the upper parts closely speckled with 
minute grey dots. Both dorsal fins have from three to five longi- 
tudinal rows of large grey spots. Well preserved specimens have 
a dark (silvery ?) band from above the base of the pectoral to the 
caudal peduncle. No dark mark at the base of the pectoral. 
This is apparently the common whiting near Fremantle; a 
large number of specimens being included in the Western 
Australian Museum collection, while an excellent series was secured 
for the Australian Museum by Mr. Abjornssen. Specimen selected 
for illustration registered 1 . 11334. 
THERAPON CAUDAVITTATUS, Richardson. 
Datma caudavittata, Richardson— Voy. Ereb. and Terr., Fishes, 1848, p. 24, pi. 
XVIII , fig. 3-5 
Therapon caudovittatus , Gunther— Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish. I., 1859, p 284, Id., All. 
and Macl., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, I., 1877, p. 270 ; Id., Macl. 
loc. cit., II , 1878, p. 348; Id., Castelnau, loc. tit , III., 1878, pp. 42 and 
47 ; Id., Klunz. Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien., LXXX , I., 1879, p. 35 ° '• Id., 
Waite, Rec. Austr Mus., III., rgoo, p. 210. 
Therapon caudovittatus? vet hostochii, Castelnau.— Proc. Zool. Soc. Viet., II., 
1873, p. 128. 
I have examined nine specimens of this fish from Fremantle, 
W. Australia, and two from Murray Island, Torres Strait, but in 
none are the sub- and interoperculum serrated as described by 
Richardson. There are also 25 instead of 20 transverse series of 
scales, so that in both these details they agree better with his figure 
than his description. 
Castelnau proposed the name hostochii for Fremantle specimens 
of caudavittatus, which differed from the description given by 
Gunther in having the dorsal fin notched, and the last spines much 
shorter than the rays This, however, is the normal form, and it is 
doubtful if Gunther has correctly described his specimens. 
