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on each palatine. Interorbital nearly flat. Gill rakers 15 to 21 on 

 lower branch of first arch. Scales rather large, 30 to 35 in lateral 

 fine. Head more or less scaly. Often small scales on front of soft 

 dorsal and anal. First dorsal with 7 or 8 spines, second dorsal 

 usually with spine and 8 or 9 branched rays. Anal often with 1 or 2 

 slender weak spines and 6 or 7 branched rays. 



Indo-Pacific. As Wliitley has pointed out, Cuvier's reference in 

 ''Regne Animal" (ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 157, 1829) is a vernacular and must 

 therefore give way to the "Histoire Naturelle des Poissons." From 

 this nearly contemporaneous work Bleeker designates the first species 

 as the type of Upeneus so that his action can not be challenged. The 

 designation of Mullus barberinus Lacepede as type of Upeneus by 

 Jordan and Gilbert (U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 16, p. 565, 1883) and 

 Mullus bifasciatus Lacepede by Jordan and Evermann (Genera of 

 Fishes, pt. 1, p. 127, 1917) are therefore invalidated. 



Upeneus rubriniger (de Vis) 



Upeneoides rubriniger de Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 9, pt. 3, 

 p. 458, 1885 (no locality). 



Pseudupeneus rubriniger McCulloch, Australian Mus. Mem., vol. 5, pt. 2, 

 p. 223, 1929 (type in Queensland Mus. I. 3092 is labeled Tully River, Queens- 

 land) . 



Depth less than 3 ; head 3, " physiognomy labroid, " profile parabohc. 

 Snout 2% in head; eye 4K; interorbital 4}^. Lateral line 27, 2 scales 

 above, 5 below. D. VIII-8; A. 7. Dusky reddish brown. Scales 

 narrowly edged darker. Head and fins, except pectoral, black. 

 Pectoral darker than body. (De Vis.) 



An imperfectly described and little known species. 



Upeneus filifer (Ogilby) 



Upeneoides filifer Ogilby, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, vol. 23, p. 95, 1910 (type 



locality: Off Gloucester, South Queensland). 

 Upeneus filifer McCulloch, Austral. Mus. Mem., vol. 5, pt. 2, p. 224, 1929 



(reference) . 



The description of this species I have been unable to consult. 



ANALYSIS OF SPECIES 



a'. Body uniform. 



bK First dorsal with blackish tip, whitish horizontal medial band and another 

 basally; caudal ends black and black band across upper lobe_ caeruleus. 



62. Dorsals uniform; hind caudal edge dusky, upper lobe with 3 to 5 gray cross 

 bands bensasi. 



¥. Second dorsal with 5 horizontal yellow bands; upper caudal lobe with 4 

 or 5 yellow crossbars sundaicus. 



¥. Dorsals edged dusky; 6 dusky bars on each caudal lobe, lower more promi- 

 nent subvittatus. 



