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U.S.N.M. No. 71734. Nafa, Okinawa. Albatross collection, 1906. Length, 185 

 to 177 mm. 



PSEUDUPENEUS MACRONEMUS (Lac6p6de) 



Mullus macronemus Lac^pJide, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, p. 400, pi. 13, fig. 2, 

 1802 (no locality). 



Mullus micronumus Playfair, Fishes of Zanzibar, p. 40, 1866 (Zanzibar; Johanna). 

 (Error.) 



Upeneus macronemus Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 405, 1859 (com- 

 piled). — Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, p. 744, 1870 

 (Koseir, Red Sea). — Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, p. 123, pi. 3, fig. 1, 1875. — 

 Vaillant, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, ser. 7, vol. 11, p. 59, 1886-1887 (Ta- 

 hiti). — BorrLENGER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 658 (Muscat). — Day, 

 Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 2, p. 29, fig. 12, 1889. — Sauvage, Hist. Nat. 

 Madagascar, Poiss., p. 224, 1891 (Red Sea, Reunion, Mauritius, Zanzibar, 

 Hawaiian Islands). — Jordan and Starks, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 11, 

 Nos. 3, 4, p. 454, 1917 (Ceylon).— Fowler, Copeia, No. 112, p. 83, 1922 

 (Hawaii); Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 230, 1928 (Hawaiian Islands); 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929 (1930), p. 648 (Honolulu); Mem. 

 Bishop Mus., vol. 11, No. 5, p. 337, 1931 (reference). 



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

 No. 3, p. 24, 1875 (Sumatra, Celebes, Amboina) ; Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., 

 vol. 9, pi. (1) 391, fig. 3, 1877; Verh. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 18, 

 No. 3, p. 2, 1879 (Mauritius). — Klunzinger, Fische Roth. Meer., p. 51, 

 1884. — Steindachner, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. Kl., vol. 

 71, pt. 1, p. 138, 1907 (Ras Shoab, Sokotra). — Zugmayer, Abh. Bayer. 

 Akad. Wiss., math.-phys. Kl., vol. 26, pt. 6, p. 11, 1913 (Oman). — Barnard, 

 Ann. South Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, p. 587, 1927 (Delagoa Bay). 



Mullus auriflamma (not ForskAl) Lac^pJ^de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, pi. 13, 

 fig. 1, 1802. 



Mullus lateristriga Ctjvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, p. 463, 1829 (on Mullus 

 macronemus and Mullus auriflamma of Lac^pJide). 



Upeneus lateristriga Ruppell, Neue Wirbelth. Fische, p. 101, 1835 (Massaua). — 

 Valenciennes, Regno Animal, Cuvier, ed. ill., Poiss., pi. 19, fig. 3, 1839. 



Upeneus lateristriata (Valenciennes and Cuvier) Valenciennes, R^gne 

 Animal, Cuvier, ed. ill., Poiss., p. opp. pi. 19, 1839. (Error.) 



Apogon amherstinus Day, Fishes of India, pt. 1, p. 124, 1875 (name in synonymy) 

 (type locality : Amherst?) . 



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

 snout, 1% in interorbital ; maxillary reaches % in snout, expansion 1 in 

 eye, length 2% in head; barbels reach opposite hind eye edge, length 

 1% in head; teeth 22 to 24 in jaws, conic, uniserial, none on palatines; 

 interorbital 4 in head, convex. GiU rakers 7 + 24, lanceolate, 1% in 

 gill filaments, which Ij^ in eye. 



Scales 29 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 more on latter; 3 

 above, 6 below, 15 predorsal forward to front nostril; 4 rows below 

 eye to lower preopercle edge. Tubes of lateral Une with 8 to 10 

 tubules. Scales with 5 basal radiating striae; 124 apical denticles, 

 with 4 transverse series of basal elements; circuli very fine. 



D. VIII-I, 8, I, third spine IK in head, first branched ray 2%, last 

 ray shorter than first; A. I, 6 i, first branched ray 2%; caudal 1%, 



