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D. VIII-9, first spine minute, imbedded; second 1% in head, soft 

 dorsal height 2%; A. 7, high as soft dorsal; caudal 1%, deeply notched, 

 lobes acutely pointed; pectoral 1%; ventral 1%. 



Dusky above, light below. Dorsal fins edged dusky. Caudal with 

 6 oblique dusky bars, on lower lobe more prominent. Belly probably 

 silvery in life. Length, 175 mm. (Snyder.) 



China, Japan. Reported from Manila by Elera. 



UPENEUS LUZONIUS Jordan and Scale 



Figure 28 



Upeneus luzonius Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, p. 25, fig. 9, 



1906 (1907) (type locality: Cavite). 



Upeneoides luzonius Jordan and Richardson, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 27, p. 260, 



1907 (1908) (Manila).— Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 5, No. 4, p. 279, 

 1910 (Sandakan, Borneo). — Herre and Montalban, Philippine Journ. 

 Sci., vol. 36, No. 1, p. 97, pi. 1, fig. 1, 1928 (Orani, Manila, Pasay, San 

 Miguel, Capiz, San Pedro Bay, Tacloban, Cuyo; Sandakan, Borneo). 



Upeneoides sundaicus (not Bleeker) Evermann and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., 



vol. 26, p. 88, 1906 (1907) (Bacon specimen). 

 Upenoides sundaicus Herre and Montalban, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 36, 



No. 1, p. 98, 1928 (part; error). 

 Upeneoides bensasi (not Schlegel) Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



1927, p. 285 (Orani; Orion). 



IiGUEE 28.— Upeneus luzonius Jordan and Seale, young 



Depth Sji to 4; head 3% to 3%, width 1% to 2. 



to 2% 



in head; eye 4% to 4K, 



1% to 1% in snout, 1 to 1% in interorbital ; 



maxillary reaches eye in young, % to eye in adult, expansion 1% to 

 1% in eye, length 2% to 2}^ in head; barbels reach opposite or slightly 

 beyond preopercle edge, length VA to 1% in head; teeth finely villi- 

 form, in narrow bands in jaws of 3 or 4 irregular series; very narrow 

 band of fine villiform teeth on each palatine, sometimes few on vomer, 

 though often obsolete or absent in young; interorbital 3% to 4, broadly 



