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1.42 in head; pectoral 1.40; ventral 1.38, inserted slightly in advance of pectoral, 

 the latter reaches slightly farther back than ventral, neither reaches vent. 



Color in alcohol : — ground color of the head greenish gray, of the body 

 yellowish; posterior part of cheek dusky; vertical margin of preopercle and 

 around the eye blackish; dusky mottling on posterior of opercle, behind the eye 

 and on top of head ; a continuous dusky area from front of spinous dorsal along 

 back to a little beyond last ray of soft dorsal; irregular dusky spots in front of 

 spinous dorsal or with a mottled appearance from nape to pectoral; irregular 

 dusky spots on the scales, from soft dorsal to lateral Hne, faintly indicating a 

 band; another one below the soft dorsal and still another just posterior to soft 

 dorsal; end of caudal peduncle and caudal fin dusky; an irregular broad, diffuse, 

 dusky area between lateral line and belly, extending from head and disappearing 

 on caudal peduncle, most intense in a line with the above mentioned bands; on 

 each of the four rows of scales, between the lateral line and the lower base of 

 pectoral there is an irregular narrow diffuse longitudinal dusky stripe, most 

 intense on anterior margin of each scale; axil of pectoral blue-black; pectoral 

 pale yellow; ventrals pale yellow, outer rays dusky above; anal with traces of 

 dusky bars; membranes of both dorsals dusky ; barbels yellow. 



Our specimen agrees most nearly with Giinther's description and figure of 

 Upeneus trifasciatus (Fische der Siidsee, 1874, 3, p. 59, taf. 44, fig. B). 



Mulloides auriflamma (ForskAl). 



Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish. Coram., 1905, 23, pt. 1, p. 250, fig. 103. 

 Mullus auriflamma Forskal, Deseript. Anim., 1775, p. 30. 



No. 3291, a specimen lis inches long from Rikitea, Manga Reva. 



Mulloides samoensis Gunther. 



Fische der Sudsee, 1874, 3, p. 57, pi. 43, fig. B. Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 1905, 

 23, pt. l,p. 253. 



One specimen. No. 3292, 65 inches long from Rikitea, Manga Reva. 



Muloides rathbuni (Evermann & Jenkins). 



Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mas., 1896, pt.l, p. 857; 1900, pt. 4, pi. 132, fig. 361. 

 Upeneus rathbuni Evermann & Jenkins, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1891, 14, p. 158, pi. 2, fig. 4. 



Eighteen specimens 4? to 8 inches long from Acapulco. M. C. Z. 29443 



(8 specimens). 



