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eye on cheek to lower preopercle edge. Tubes in lateral line with 4 to 

 8 tubules. Scales with 6 or 7 basal radiating striae; 135 to 141 apical 

 denticles, with 2 or 3 transverse series of basal radiating striae; 

 circuli very fine. 



D. VIII-I, 8, 1, third spine 1% to 1% in head, first branched ray 2% to 

 3; A. I, 6, 1, first branched ray 2% to 3; caudal 1% to V/z, forked, lobes 

 pointed; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 3; pectoral IYa to 1%; 

 ventral 1% to 1%. 



Pale brown above, paler to whitish on sides and below. Dark 

 brown postocular blotch, close behind and about equal to eye. At 

 predorsal brown saddlelike area 4 scales wide down behind shoulder. 

 Then another similar band or blotch from greater part of spinous dorsal 

 base and posteriorly or from interdorsal region narrow transverse 

 band 2 or 3 scales wide. At soft dorsal base blackish-brown broad 



FiQUEE 2i.—P3eudupe'neus trifasciatus (Lacfipede), young 



band 3 scales wide, extends from greater anterior part of soft dorsal. 

 Posteriorly or to blackish-brown saddle on caudal peduncle area for 

 4 or 5 scales in extent pale yellowish. Blackish-brown blotch on 

 caudal peduncle 3 or 4 scales in extent. Spinous dorsal pale brown, 

 darker terminally on membranes. Soft dorsal, inclusive of long last 

 ray, blackish basally, upper half with 2 or 3 brown longitudinal bands. 

 Anal whitish, with 4 or 5 brown longitudinal bands. Caudal pale 

 brown, upper and lower edges narrowly dusky. Paired fins pale 

 brownish. Ventrals pale yellowish internally and outer edges deep 

 brown. 



East Indies, Philippines, China, Riu Kiu, Melanesia, Micronesia, 

 Polynesia. My specimens agree largely with Giinther's excellent fig- 

 ure, except that he does not show the dark postocular blotch, and the 

 last dorsal ray is much shorter. Both these characters are, however, 

 well shown in Bleeker's figure of Parupeneus multifasciatus. Bleeker 



