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late. Caudal well developed, forked, its lobes roimded. Pectoral 1^ 

 in bead. Veiitrals not quite reacbing tbe vent, IJ in bead. 



Air-bladder large, lined witb black. 



Color, in spirits, yellowisb, witb dark markings; bead gray; a black 

 spot on tbe median line between occiput and first dorsal ; a blackisb 

 baud across tbe back between tbe dorsal fins, another at base of soft 

 dorsal, and a tbird on tbe caudal peduncle; all tbese bands becoming 

 ligbter below tbe lateral line; a gray blotcb below lateral line, nearer 

 second band than tbe one on tbe tail. First and second dorsal spines 

 black, tbe whole upper portion of spinous dorsal dark, tbe membrane 

 connecting tbe fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh spines nearly black, 

 forming a blotch ; second dorsal very dark, witb about three narrow 

 whiteish stripes, and inconspicuous white spots on its base ; caudal plain, 

 yellow, narrowly margined with brown above, less narrowly margined witb 

 black below; anal dark, its marginal third witb three light lines disposed 

 horizontally; nearer the base the membrane is crossed by white bars 

 at right angles with the rays, almost forming a network of lines; pecto- 

 rals dusky at base, otherwise plain yellow; ventral spine nearly black, 

 the rest of the fin "dusky, witb about nine slightly waving lines of 

 white across the rays. Lower lip and barbels gray, tips of the barbels 

 fading into yellowish. Branchiostegal membrane dusky. Peritoneum 

 light. 



This species is closely allied to TJ. frifasciatus (Lac.) C. & V., from 

 which its most conspicuous differences (according to a figure in the 

 Jour. Mus. Godeffroy) are the extreme elongation of tbe last ray in both 

 tbe soft dorsal and tbe anal fin, and the greater length of the barbels, 

 which pass beyond the base of the ventrals, while in this figure the bar- 

 bels only reach the posterior margin of tbe subopercle. Lacepede's 

 figures, copied from Commerson, represent the specimen which be calls 

 Mnlliis hifasciatits as having the barbels shorter than the head, and M. 

 trlfa sciatus witb tbe barbels nearly attaining the extremity of the ventral 

 fins. Of tbe barbels Cuvier & Valenciennes say: "ils ne depassent 

 pas I'angle du preopercule, et ceux du mulle trois-handes depassent 

 meme I'opercule. Capendant la figure, qui est de Sounerat, les exagere, 

 en les faisant aller jusques sous les ventrales." — (Hist. ^at. Poiss. 

 iii, 4G8.) In the figures by Lacepede tbe dorsal and anal fins are low 

 in both M. hlfasciatm and M. tri/asciatns. 



One specimen (26822), lOf inches in length. 



13._UPE^TEUS VANICOLENSIS (C. & V.) Smith & Swain. 



Upeneus vanicolensis C. & V, Hist. Nat. Poiss. vii, 521, 1831 (Vanicolo). 



Upeneus vanicolensis Blkr. Nat. T. Ned .lud. iv, 601, 1853. 



MiiUoides vanicolensis Blkr. Ternate ii, 601, 1853 ; Gtlir. Cat. Fishes Brit. Mns. i, 404, 



1859 (seas of Ternate and Vanicolo); Bleeker, Ennui. Spec. Pise. Arcliip. 



ludic. 39, 1859 (name only); Blkr. Conspect. Spec. Pise. p. 6 (Halmaheira, 



Ternate, Archip. Moh;cca ; name only) ; Blkr. Revision Mulloides, x>. 14, 



1874? (Ternate, Sangir). 



