FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE SEAS AND ADJACENT WATERS 313 

 PSEUDUPENEUS BILINEATUS (Valenciennes) 



Upeneus bilineatus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, p. 525, 1831 (type 

 locality: Amboina). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 411, 1859 

 (compiled). — Fovs^ler, Bishop Mus. Bull. 38, p. 17, fig. 2, 1927 (Palmyra 

 Island); Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 10, p. 233, fig. 47, 1928 (Palmyra example). 



Parupeneus bilineatus Bleeker, Nederland. Tijdschr. Dierk., vol. 2, p. 281, 

 1865 (name only); Verh. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 15, No. 3, p. 38, 

 1875 (compiled). 



Depth Z%; head 3K, width 2. Snout 2% in head; eye 4)^, 1% in 

 snout, l}i in interorbital ; maxillary reaches eye, expansion 1% in eye, 

 length 3 in head; teeth small, simple, conic, uniform, 2 rows above 

 anteriorly and 5 below anteriorly, none on palate or tongue ; interorbital 

 ZYi, broadly convex. Gill rakers 8 + 22, lanceolate, 1% in gill filaments 

 or 2K in eye. 



Scales 36 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 more on latter; 3 above, 

 6 below, 14? predorsal; 3 rows on cheek. Scales with 4 to 6 basal 

 radiating striae; 155 to 160 apical denticles, with 10 to 12 transverse 

 series of basal elements; circuli very fine. 



D. VII-I, 8, 1, first spine IM in head, first branched ray 2%; A. I, 

 6, 1, first branched ray 2; caudal 1%, deeply forked, lower lobe longer; 

 least depth of caudal peduncle 2%; pectoral lYz; ventral 1%. 



Largely dull brownish, back with sHght ohve tint and below paler. 

 From upper postocular edge whitish band, extends back to supra- 

 scapula and horizontally along upper side, crosses lateral Une and 

 ends below soft dorsal. Second parallel similar band from lower eye 

 edge back above pectoral base and ends at middle of front of caudal 

 peduncle. Also traces indistinctly of third parallel band from lower 

 pectoral base back until above anal origin. Iris with reddish tinge. 

 Barbels whitish. Fins all pale brownish. Apex of spinous dorsal 

 grayish. Ventral and anal more whitish. 



Amboina and Palmyra Islands. Besides the type specimen, known 

 from the above described specimen from Palmyra Island, now in the 

 Bishop Museum. 



One example. Bishop Museum. Palmyra Island. August 20, 1924. Length, 

 232 mm. 



PSEUDUPENEUS LUTEUS (Valenciennes) 



Upeneus luteus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, p. 521, 1831 (type 

 locality: Mauritius). — Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Genootsch. (Percoid.), vol. 

 22, p. 63, 1849 (Batavia) .— TmoLLifeRE, Fauna Woodlark, p. 152, 1857 

 (Woodlark Island). — Dat, Fishes of India, pt. 1, p. 125, pi. 31, fig. 2, 

 1875.— Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 7, p. 246, 1882 

 (New Guinea). — Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espafi. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 14, 

 p. 16, 1885 (Kordo, Mysore). — Day, Fauna Brit. India, Fishes, vol. 2, p. 31, 

 1889. — Pearson, Ceylon Administr. Rep., 1915-1918, p. F18.— Malpas, 

 Ceylon Administr. Rep., 1921, p. E7. — Herre and Montalban, Philippine 

 Journ. Sci., vol. 36, No. 1, p. 114, pi. 5, fig. 1, 1928 (Dumaguete and Zam- 

 boanga) . 



Mullus luteus Playpair, Fishes of Zanzibar, p. 41, 1866 (Zanzibar; Aden). 



