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Under Upeneoides vittatus later writers, as Giinther,-^ Bleeker,^^ 

 Day^^ and Sauvage-^ mention the lower caudal lobe with three dark 

 oblique bars. Giinther mentions two or three such bars, with 

 adult material about a foot in length. Bleeker's figure shows greater 

 upper portion of spinous dorsal black, only broad pink lengthwise 

 band below middle. It also has soft dorsal apex black with two 

 yellow lengthwise bands. Its caudal differs from Day's figure in 

 innermost black bars leaving only narrow pale area, also tips of both 

 lobes black, and bar next black tip on lower lobe twice wide as one 

 nearer caudal base. Day's figure shows dark bars on lower caudal 

 lobe evenly spaced, of about even width. Sauvage mentions three 

 dark lower caudal bars, but his figure shows all the fins uniform and 

 the body with four dark transverse bands. He includes in liis 

 table U. tcenio'pterus with U. vittatus, as a group with eight dorsal 

 rays, though Day, who examined Valenciennes type of the former 

 gives but seven. 



Compared with Upeneoides urge Jordan and Evermann,-^ my ex- 

 amples of the present species differ as the former has pale tipped 

 dorsal and caudal markings different. Jordan and Seale describe 

 as U. vittatus Samoan material-^ closely approaching my specimens 

 and refer to it as uete or vete. Two adult examples of U. vittatus 

 before me from Taliiti, though in poor condition, still have traces 

 of the fin markings, more as indicated in Bleeker's figure, and with 

 four dark bars on each caudal lobe. Smith and Seale report U. 

 vittatus-'^ from Mindanao 4^ to 11 inches long with "each lobe of 

 caudal with 5 or 6 oblique dusky bars." 



(For the Philippine Islands.) 



Upeneoides belaque sp. nov. Fig. 16. 



Head 3i; depth 3i; D. VIII-I, 8, i; A. I, 6, i; P. i, 13; V. I, 5; scales 

 35 in lateral fine to caudal base and 4 more on latter; 3 scales above 

 1.1. to spinous dorsal origin, and 7 below to spinous anal origin; 

 predorsal scales 17; head width 2 in its length; head depth at occiput 

 \\; snout 2|; eye 4; maxillary 2j; interorbital 3|; second dorsal 

 spine l\; first branched dorsal ray 1|; first branched anal ray 1 



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5 1 



21 Cat. F. Brit. Mus., I, 1859, p. 397. 



— Journ. Mus. Godeffroy (F. Siidsee) II, 1873-5, p. 55. Samoa and Tahiti. 



22 Atlas Ich. Ind. Need., IX, 1877, PI. 342 (2), fig. 3. 



23 Fishes of India, I, 1875, p. 120, PI. 30, fig. 2. 



24 Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Pise, XVI, 1891, p. 219, PI. 27, fig. 2. 



25 Bull. U. S. F. Com., XXII, 1902 (April 11, 1903), p. 187. Honolulu. 



26 Bull. Bur. Fisher., XXV, 1905 (1906), p. 273. Samoa. 



27 Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XIX, 1906, p. 78. 



