FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE SEAS AND ADJACENT WATERS 277 



Pseudupeneus barberinoides Kendall and Goldsborouqh, Mem. Mus. Comp. 



ZooL, vol. 26, p. 293, 1911 (Vavau, Tonga). 

 Upeneus airocingulatus (Kner) Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



math.-nat. Kl., vol. 61, p. 443, 1870 (type locality: Savay). — Schmeltz, Cat. 



Mus. Godeffroy, No. 4, p. 29, 1869 (Savay); No. 6, p. 12, 1877 (Vavau); No. 



7, p. 40, 1879 (Tonga Islands). 

 Upeneus trifasciatus (part) Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vols. 2, 3, pts. 



5, 6, p, 59, pi. 44, fig. C, 1874. 



Depth 3 to 3/3; head 2% to 2%, width 2/3 to 2%. Snout 1% to 2Ko in 

 head; eye 4K to 5%, 2 to 3% in snout, 1 to 1% in interorbital ; maxillary- 

 reaches % to % to eye, expansion 1% in eye in young to % greater than 

 eye with age, length 2% to 3 in head; barbels reach beyond eye to 

 upper hind preopercle edge, length 1% to l}i in head; teeth about 36 

 above, 32 below, simple, conic, uniserial, none on palate; interorbital 

 3% to 4, convex. Gill rakers 7 + 21, lanceolate, 1% in gill filaments, 

 which 1% in eye. 



Figure 20.— Pseudupeneus barberinoides (Bleeker), young 



Scales 26 to 29 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 more on latter; 

 3 above, 5 to 7 below, 13 predorsal; 3 rows below eye to lower pre- 

 opercle edge. Tubes of lateral line with 3 to 6 tubules. Scales with 

 5 or 6 basal radiating striae; 60 to 131 apical denticles, with 3 to 7 

 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



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

 2}i to 3%] A. I, 6, I, first branched ray 2Ko to 2%; caudal 1 to 1^, 

 deeply forked, slender lobes, pointed; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 2% to 3; pectoral 1% to Iji; ventral 1% to 1%. 



Generally pale brown. Upper surface or edge of head and back 

 slightly darker all along for about width of one scale. Dark or blackish 

 brown band from upper side of snout to eye, then over postocular 

 and along and finally close above lateral line till opposite soft dorsal 

 origin where interrupted by white area, then leaves small blackish- 

 brown spot about size of eye on lateral line below base of last dorsal 



