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few minute, inconspicuous tubules. Scales with 7 basal radiating 

 striae; 160 apical denticles, with 12 transverse series of basal elements; 

 circuli fine. 



D. VIII-I, 8, I, third spine 2% in head, first branched ray 2%; A. II, 

 6, I, first branched ray 2%; caudal Iji, deeply forked, lobes broad and 

 rounded; least depth of caudal peduncle 3}^; pectoral 1%; ventral 1%. 



Dark brown generally, little lighter on under surfaces. Back and 

 sides above with more or less inconspicuous mottlings of darker or 

 blackish brown. Four blacldsh bands across interorbital connecting 

 eyes, last much narrower, then broad dark occipital band, down to 

 postocular side, still another narrower one above and broad dark 

 saddle before first dorsal. All along edge of back dark blotches or 

 saddles, one at spinous dorsal base, one at interdorsal, one at soft 

 dorsal base and one on front of caudal peduncle; these all reflected 

 obscurely as transverse bands down on side of body. Each row of 

 scales above lateral line and below wdth longitudinal narrow dark 

 bands, barely half as wide as pale interspaces. Iris golden brown. 

 Barbels light brown. Spinous dorsal dusky brown. Soft dorsal black- 

 ish brown basally, paler terminally. Anal dull brown, membranes with 

 darker flakes of brown. Caudal dusky, base largely blacldsh brown. 

 Paired fins brown. Pectoral dusky to blackish basally. Front or 

 outer portions of ventral mth deep brown shadings. 



Diagnosis. — Differs from all the known species in its genus in its 

 swarthy coloration, both in the presence of dark saddles on the back 

 and each row of scales with longitudinal dark narrow band. 



Type.—\J. S. N. M. No. 65639. From Cooks Bay, Easter Island. 

 Albatross coUection (3196). Length, 285 mm. As Pseudujpeneus 

 multifasciatus . 



PSEUDUPENEUS TRIFASCIATUS (hac&pide) 



Figure 24 



Mullus trifascialus LAcfipiiDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, pp. 383, 404, pi. 15, fig. 

 1, 1802 (no locality).— CuviER, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, p. 468, 1829 (Caro- 

 lines) . 



Upeneus trifasciatus Jenyns, Voy. Beagle, Fishes, vol. 4, p. 25, 1842 (Tahiti). — GtJN- 

 THER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 407, 1859 (China, Amboyna, Celebes, Cey- 

 lon, India). — Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, p. 71, 1865 (Tahiti). — Schmeltz, 

 Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 3, p. 7, 1866 (Samoa).— Gunther, Journ. Mus. 

 Godeflfroy, vols. 2-3, pts. 5-6, p. 59, pi. 44, fig. B (not fig. C), 1874 (China, 

 Polynesia; but not Hawaiian material). — Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, 

 p. 387, 1876 (Larentuka, Flores). — Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 7, 

 p. 40, 1879 (Samoa).— Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 7, 

 p. 245, 1882 (New Guinea).— Pohl, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 9, p. 27, 1884 

 (Samoa). — Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espan. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 14, p. 16, 

 1885 (North Celebes). — Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.- 

 nat. Kl., vol. 102, pt. 1, p. 238, 1893 (New Hebrides).— Elera, Cat. Fauna 

 Filip., vol. 1, p. 480, 1895 (Luzon, Batangas, Nasugbu, Cebu). — Boulenger, 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, vol. 20, p. 372, 1897 (Rotuma).— Seale, Occ. 

 Pap. Bishop Mus., vol. 1, No. 3, p. 72, 1901 (Guam).— Tirant, Service 



