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Parwpeneus luteus (not Valenciennes) Evermann and Seals, Bull. Bur. 

 Fisher., vol. 26, p. 89, 1906 (1907) (Jolo). 



Depth 3%; head 3, width 1%. Snout 1% in head; eye 5%, 2% in 

 snout, 2 in interorbital; maxillaiy reaches % in snout, expansion % eye 

 diameter greater than eye, length 2% in head; barbels reach opposite 

 hind preopercle edge, length Iji in head; teeth about 24 in each jaw, 

 conic, short, uniserial, none on palate; interorbital 3, convex. Gill 

 rakers 7 + 20, lanceolate, 1% in gill filaments, which }i eye diameter 

 greater than eye. 



Scales 27 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 more on latter; 3 

 above, 6 below, 12 predorsal forward to nostril; 3 rows below 63^6 on 

 cheek to preopercle edge. Tubes in lateral Une with 4 to 10 tubules. 

 Scales with 4 basal radiating striae; 140 to 148 apical denticles, with 

 7 to 9 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. VIII-I, 8, I, third spine 1% in head, first branched ray 3%; 

 A. II, 6, I, first branched ray 3%; caudal 1%, deeply forked, lobes 

 pointed; least depth of caudal peduncle 3%; pectoral Iji; ventral 1%. 



Generally uniform light brown, sides and below but slightlj'" paler. 

 Iris gray slate. Fins all uniformly pale. 



East Indies, Philippines. Although Evermann and Scale have 

 identified the example listed below as Parwpeneus luteus they are 

 wrong. Upeneus luteus Valenciennes, as figured by Bleeker, also its 

 synonym Upeneus pleurospilos, has a greatly larger pair of barbels, 

 these reaching the ventral origin. Evermann and Scale mention 

 short barbels and the uniform yellow color of their specimen. At 

 present there is no trace whatever of any blue lines on the head or 

 bands on the soft vertical fins. 



U.S.N. M. No. 56131. Jolo. Bureau of Fisheries (4141). Length, 187 mm. As 

 Parupeneus luteus. 



Genus UPENEUS Cuvier 



Upeneus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, p. 448, 1829. (Type, Mullus vitiatus 



FoRSKAL, designated by Bleeker, Arch. N4erland. Sci. Nat. Harlem, vol. 11, 



p. 333, 1876.) 

 Hypeneus Agassiz, Nomencl. Zool. Index, p. 190, 1846. (Tj^pe, Mullus vitiatus 



FoRSKAL.) (Corrected orthography.) 

 Upeneoides Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootseh. (Percoid.), vol. 22, pp. 62, 63, 



1849. (Type, Mullus vitiatus Forskal, designated by Jordan, Genera of 



fishes, pt. 2, p. 240, 1919.) 

 Hypeneoides Ogilby, Cat. Fish. New South Wales, p. 17, 1886. (Type, Mullus 



vittatus Forskal.) (Corrected orthograpliy.) 

 Megalepis Bianconi, Rec. Acad. Sci. Bologna, 1854-1857, p. 100, 1857. (Type, 



Megalepis alessandrini Bi.\nconi, monotypic.) 



Body elongate oblong, compressed. Head moderate or rather 

 small. Snout moderate. Eye elevated, usually close to upper pro- 

 file. Mouth low. Maxillary reaches below front edge of eye. Jaws 

 nearly equal. Teeth in jaws small, in several irregular rows forming 

 narrow villiform bands. Band of villiform teeth on vomer and band 



