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i*. No lines on head. 



fci. Barbels reach ventrals xanthospilurus. 



fc*. Barbels reach opposite hind preopercle edge. 



porphyreua. 

 g^. No pale or whitish blotch behind soft dorsal. 

 Z'. Coloration not uniform. 



m^ No brown median lateral bands. 



n*. Largely crimson; scales on back below dorsals 

 edged black; barbels and vertical fins yellow, 

 soft dorsals and anals with horizontal blue 



bands chrysonemus. 



V?. Rosy; 4 white horizontal lateral bands, second 

 from eye, third from below eye and fourth 



from below pectoral base bilineatus. 



n*. Four blue horizontal Hues on head; each body 



scale with pale spot luteua. 



n*. Vermilion; each scale with silvery spot, form 



2 rows above lateral line and 2 rows below; 



opercle purple; barbels rosy, cinnabarinus. 



m?. Bright red; golden band from eye to caudal 



base; fins red; barbels pale yellow. 



chrysopleuron. 

 «•. Back purpUsh, tail pink; dorsals dusky, with 

 pale lines; barbels dusky, reach hind pre- 

 opercle edge crassilabris. 



n'. Greenish brown, flanks silvery; spinous dorsal 



dusky; eye Z% 1% in snout., cyprinoides. 



m*. Brown band along lateral line from hind eye 



edge to caudal peduncle; another from above 



pectoral axil to middle of caudal base. 



taeniatus. 

 P. Coloration uniform rosy; barbels reach beyond pre- 

 opercle jansenii. 



Subgenus Parupeneus Bleeker 



PSEUDUPENEUS PLEUROSPILOS (Bleeker) 



Figure 19 



Upeneus pleurospilos Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 4, p. 110, 1853 

 (type locality : Amboina); Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Japan), vol. 26, p. 69, 

 1854 (Japan)".— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 407, 1859 (compiled). 

 — Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, p. 746, 1870 (Koseir, 

 Red Sea).— Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 14, p. 16, 

 1885 (Manado, Celebes; Cebu) .— Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, p. 480, 

 1895 (Luzon, Cavite, Santa Cruz, Cebu).— Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 42, p. 502, 1912 (Okinawa).— Herre and Montalban, Philippine Journ. 

 Sci., vol. 36, No. 1, p. 128, pi. 1, fig. 2, 1928 (Polillo, Calapan, Cebu, Cagayan 

 de Misamis, Davao). — Schmidt, Trans. Pacific Comm. Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., 

 vol. 1, p. 59, 1930 (Daikuma, Riu Kiu) .—Anonymous, lUustrat. Jap. 

 Aquat. Plants Animal., vol. 1, pi. 22, fig. 6, 1931. 



Upeneus pleurospilus Jordan and Snyder, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 84, 

 1901 (Nagasaki). 



Parupeneus pleurospilus Bleeker, Verh. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 15, 

 No. 3, p. 31, 1875 (Bali, Amboina, Saparua); Atlas Ichth. Ind. N6erland., 

 vol. 9, pi. (1)191, fig. 5, 1877. 



