280 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



deeply forked, with sharply pointed lobes; least depth of caudal pe- 

 duncle 2%; pectoral 1%; ventral 1%. 



Back gray-brown, color generally well defined from general whitish 

 color of sides and under surface. Blackish-brown band from front 

 side of snout to eye, wider than pupil though not wide as eye, then 

 backward till below bases of last dorsal rays. Broad whitish saddle 

 close behind last dorsal ray on front of caudal peduncle. Blackish- 

 brown round spot size of eye mostly close above lateral line about 

 middle length of caudal peduncle. Iris pale yellowish. Fins pale 

 to translucent. Traces of several dark longitudinal bands on soft 

 dorsal. Barbels pale brown. 



Red Sea, Arabia, Zanzibar, Mauritius, East Indies, Polynesia, 

 Hawaii. Very close to Pseudupeneus barberinus, but the position of 

 the dark spot on the caudal peduncle median laterally. In Pseudu- 

 peneus barberinus it is always situated at the base of the caudal fin. 

 The two species are well figured by Bleeker. 



U.S.N.M. No. 49329. Red Sea. Belotti. Length, 212 mm. 

 A.N.S.P. No. 28246. Honolulu. Stanford University. In exchange. Length, 

 138 mm. 



PSEUDUPENEUS SPILURUS (Bleeker) 



Upeneus spilurus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 6, p. 395, 1854 

 (type locality: Nagasaki); Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Japan), vol. 26, p. 68, 

 pi. 2, fig. 2, 1854-1857 (Nagasaki) ; Act. Soc. Sci. Ind. N^erland., No. 3, vol. 3, 

 p. 5, 1857-1858 (Japan). — GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 406, 

 1859 (compiled). — Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeflfroy, No. 4, p. 14, 1869 

 (Kandavu). — Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, p. 747, 1870 

 (Koseir, Red Sea). — Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 5, p. 23, 1874 

 (Viti Islands). — Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, p. 387, 1876 (Yoko- 

 hama). — Jordan and Snyder, Annot. Zool. Japon., vol. 3, p. 84, 1901 

 (Nagasaki). — Tanaka, Fishes of Japan, vol. 23, p. 405, pi. 110, fig. 332, 

 1916 (Japan) .—Norman, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 9, p. 321, 1922 

 (Natal). — Herre and Montalban, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 36, No. 1, 

 p. 117, 1928 (compiled) .—Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 229, 1928 

 (compiled). — Schmidt, Trans. Pacific Comm. Acad. Sci. U. S. S. R., vol. 1, 

 p. 56, pi. 2, fig. 1, 1930 (Yaeyama, Riu Kiu). 



Pseudupeneus spilurus Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, p. 88, 

 1906 (1907) (Bulan) .—Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 32, p. 91, 1907. 



Depth 3 to 3%; head 2% to 3)^, width 2 to 2%. Snout 1% to 2}^ in 

 head; eye 5% to 4Ko, 1% to 3 in snout, 1)^ to 2 in interorbital ; maxillary 

 reaches % to %o to eye, expansion iKo to 1}^, length 2}^ to 2% in head; 

 barbels reach opposite hind preopercle edge or length Iji to 1% in 

 head; teeth uniserial, rather large, short, conic, 12 or 13 above, 10 or 

 11 below, none on palate; interorbital 3 to S%, well convex. Gill 

 rakers 6 + 24, lanceolate, 1% in gill filaments, which equal eye. 



Scales 27 or 28 in lateral line to caudal base and 1 or 2 more on 

 latter; 3 above, 6 below, 13 or 14 predorsal; 3 rows on cheek below 

 eye to lower preopercle edge. Each tube of lateral line, with 6 to 8 

 short tubules. Scales with 6 or 7 basal radiating striae; 215 to 220 



