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spinous "dorsal origin and caudal base, first branched ray longest 

 with spine f its length, and depressed | to caudal base. Anal origin 

 slightly behind second dorsal, fin similar though smaller. Caudal 

 well forked, sharp pointed lobes about equal. Pectoral small, 

 pointed, reaches If to second dorsal origin. Ventral origin close 

 behind pectoral base, though before spinous dorsal origin, reaches 

 1| to anal. Ventral spine about | of fin. 



Color in alcohol faded largely uniform dull brownish, lower sur- 

 faces scarcely paler. Spinous dorsal pale, apex broadly jet-black, 

 and mecUan brown horizontal band. Soft dorsal pale with three 

 nearly horizontal dusky bands, uppermost apical and lowermost on 

 hind rays. Caudal whitish, upper lobe crossed l)y three oblique 

 broad dusky-brown bars, and lower lobe with two, but outer very 

 broad and black. Median caudal rays also dusky. All other fins 

 pale brownish. Iris pale slaty. 



Length 180 mm. 



Type, No. 47,508, A. N. S. P. 



Philippine Islands. Presented by the Commercial Museums of 

 Philadelphia. 



Also Nos. 47,509 to 47,511, paratypes, same data. These show: 

 Head 3^ to 3f ; depth 3| to 3f ; D. VHI-I, 8, i; A. I, 6, i; scales 35 

 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 more on latter; 3 scales above 1.1. 

 to dorsal origin, and 6 or 7 below to anal origin; 14 predorsal scales; 

 snout 2f to 3 in head; eye 3| to 4|; maxillary 2j to 2|; interorbital 

 3^ to 4; rakers 7 or 8+13, iv or 14, iv; length 120 to 149 mm. 



Allied, if not identical with Upeneoides vittatus (Forskal) , but appar- 

 ently differs in the presence of but two black bars on the lower caudal 

 lobe, the outer quite broad. The oldest synomym of U. vittatus is 

 Mullus handi Shaw,^^ based on Russell's Badi goolivinda}'^ Tliis is 

 doubtless U. vittatus and Russell says "the length seldom exceeds 

 six inches." Shaw apparently copies Lacepede's crude figure, 

 showing lower caudal lobe likely for the present or a closely allied 

 species. Russell's figure has three dark lower caudal bars, but 

 obliquely parallel with those of upper lobe! Russell also shows 

 spinous dorsal tip not black, though fin crossed obliquely Avith three 

 dark bars, and soft dorsal end dark, also fin crossed by two oblique 

 dark bars. Upeneus bita^niatus Bennett^'' is simply diagnosed with 

 two golden bands below lateral line, and dorsal and caudal with 

 oblique black streaks. 



18 Gen. Zool., IV, 1803, p. 615, PI. 89. 



1^ Fishes of Coromandel, II, 1803, p. 43, PL 158 (-60). Vizagapatam. 



^oProc. Zool. Soc. London, 1830-1, p. 59. Mauritius. 



