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D. VIII-I, 8, second spine 1^3 in head, first ray 2; A. I, 6, spine 

 2}^, second ray 2; least depth of caudal peduncle 2%; pectoral 1%; 

 ventral 1}^; caudal 3% in combined head and body to caudal base, 

 deeply forked. 



Back greenish brown, with silvery flanks. Dorsal blackish at its 

 end. Length, 75 mm. (Sauvage.) 



Mauritius. 



PSEUDUPENEUS TAENIATUS (Kner) 



Upeneus taeniatus Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, p. 71, 1865 (alternate name 

 for Upeneus barberinoides Kner); Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. 

 KL, vol. 57, pt. 1, p. 305, 1868 (Kanathia, Fiji).^ — Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. 

 Godeffroy, No. 4, p. 14, 1869 (Kandavu); No. 5, p. 23, 1874 (Viti); No. 7, 

 p. 40, 1879 (Viti Islands). — Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 229, 



1928 (part, not Hawaiian materials) ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



1929 (1930), p. 610 (Hong Kong); Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 11, No. 5, p. 

 337, 1931 (reference). 



Upeneus barberinoides (not Bleeker) Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, p. 70, pi. 3, 



fig. 4, 1865 (type locality: Hong Kong). 

 Parupeneus kneri Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 4, p. 142, 1873 



(on Kner, 1865). 



Depth 3%; head 3%. Snout 2 in head; eye 4%, 2 in snout; maxillary 

 reaches % to eye, expansion Iji in eye, length 2% in head; barbel 1%, 

 reaches opposite hind opercle edge; interorbital low; preopercle edge 

 entire. 



Scales 28 or 29 in lateral line, 3 above, 6 below, about 11 predorsal 

 forward to front nostril, 3 rows on cheek with lowest row covering 

 preopercle flange. 



D. VIII-I, 8, fourth spine Iji in head, first ray 2; A. II, 6, first 

 ray l%o; least depth of caudal peduncle 2%; caudal 1, deeply emar- 

 ginate and lobes pointed; pectoral 1%; ventral Iji. 



Back olive. From hind eye edge along lateral line brown bandy 

 bounded above by narrower and below also subequal silver glazed 

 intervening band; lower band crosses lateral line at caudal peduncle 

 and upper extends only to caudal peduncle; median dark lateral 

 band, still lower, extends from above pectoral axil to caudal base 

 medially. Fins clear and uniform. Length, 138 mm. (Kner.) 



China, Polynesia. Known by the median lateral dark band from 

 above pectoral axil to caudal base. 



PSEUDUPENEUS JANSENU (Bleeker) 



Upeneus jansenii Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. N^erland. (Manado), vol. 1, 

 p. 44, 1856 (type locality: Manado, Celebes). — GIjnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. 

 Mus., vol. 1, p. 411, 1859 (Amboyna). — Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New 

 South Wales, vol. 7, p. 246, 1882 (New Guinea). — Fowler, Mem. Bishop 

 Mus., vol. 10, p. 232, 1928 (Pacific?). 



Parupeneus jansenii Bleeker, Verh. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 15, No. 3, 

 p. 34, 1875 (Celebes, Buru, Amboina); Atlas Iclith. Ind. N6erland., vol. 9, 

 pi. (2) 392, fig. 6, 1877. 



