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convex; preopercle edge entire. Gill rakers 5+14, lanceolate, 1% in 

 gill filaments, which IK in eye; 2 upper and G lower rudimentary. 



Scales 32 to 33 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 or 3 more on 

 latter; 3 above, 6 below, 14 to 16 predorsal forward to snout tip; 3 

 rows on cheek. Scales of lateral line arborescent. Soft dorsal and 

 anal scaly on anterior membranes. Scales with 5 basal radiating 

 striae; 74 to 92 slender apical denticles, with 5 to 10 transverse series 

 of basal elements; circuli very fine. 



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

 6, I, first branched ray 1% to 1%; caudal 1, deeply forked, lobes 

 pointed; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 2%; pectoral IK to 

 1%; ventral 1% to 1%. 



Back and head above olive-brown, sides lighter olivaceous and 

 under surfaces whitish. All upper surfaces more or less obscurely 

 mottled or clouded with darker to dusky. Obscure dark lateral 

 axial band from eye to caudal base medially, crossing above lateral 

 line at beginning of caudal peduncle. In young dark band empha- 

 sized as several blackish blotches opposite first and second dorsals 

 and front of caudal peduncle. Iris yellowish to brown. Barbels 

 sulphur-yellow. Fins ail pale brownish with several obscure darker 

 bands on front of spinous dorsal and soft dorsal, as 5 obliquely over 

 upper caudal lobe and as many over lower, though latter only on 

 inner or posterior half of lobe. Other fins uniformly whitish. 



East Indies, Philippines. Closely related to Upeneus tragula, 

 though with paler lower fins and different coloration. 



9112, 21190. Catbalogan, Samar. April 15, 1908. Length, 120 to 149 mm. 

 Two examples. Davao, Mindanao. May 16, 1908. Length, 104 to 113 mm. 



In very poor preservation. 

 19385. Iloilo market, Panay. March 28, 1908. Length, 98 mm. 

 4945. Iloilo market. March 29, 1908. Length, 144 mm. 

 Three examples. Manila Bay. December 9, 1907. Length, 50 to 63 mm. 



Back with 3 dark or blackish saddles. 

 Eight examples. Manila Harbor. March 16, 1908. Length, 65 to 88 mm. 

 19603. Manila Harbor. January 13, 1908. Length, 88 mm. 

 19310. Pandanon Island. March 24, 1909. Length, 63 to 91 mm. Nineteen 



examples. 

 17550, 17551. Sorsogon market. March 12, 1909. Length, 153 to 171 mm. 

 Six examples. Sandakan Bay, Borneo, Dutch East Indies. March 2, 1908. 



Length, 60 to 90 mm. Entire under surface of body more or less sulphur- 

 yellow. 

 20235. Sandakan market. March 2, 1908. Length, 113 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 53067. Cavite, Luzon. G. A. Lung. Length, 84 to 91 mm. Two 



examples. Type. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 56138. Bacon. Bureau of Fisheries (No. 3201). Length, 131 



mm. As Upeneoides sundaicus. 

 A.N.S.P. Nos. 51904 to 51906. Orion, Luzon. May 11, 1923. Rev. Joseph 



Clemens. Purchased. Length, 110 to 142 mm. These and all following as 



Upeneoides bensasi. 



