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Depth 3 to 3}^; head 2% to 3, width 2% to 2^. Snout 1% to 1% in 

 head; eye 4% to 6, 2K to S% in snout, IK to 1% in interorbital; maxillary 

 reaches % to % to eye, expansion % to K greater than eye, length 2% to 

 2)^ in head; barbels reach within 2 scales of or to ventrals, length 1 to 

 1% in head; teeth rather large, conic, strong, short, 28 above, 22 below, 

 uniserial, none on palate; interorbital 3^2 to 3%, convex. Gill rakers 

 8 + 30, lanceolate, slightly longer than gill filaments or l}i in eye. 



Scales 27 or 28 in lateral hne to caudal base and 3 more on latter; 

 3 above, 6 below, 12 or 13 predorsal forward to nostril; 3 rows on cheek 

 below eye to preopercle edge. Tubes of lateral line arborescent. 

 Scales with 5 or 6 basal radiating striae; 130 to 154 apical denticles, 

 with 10 to 14 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



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

 to 3Ko, last ray 1% to 2K; A. I, 6, i, first branched ray 2% to 3%, last ray 

 1% to 2; caudal IK to Iji, deeply forked, lobes rather blunt; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 2% to 2%; pectoral 1^ to 1%; ventral IK to l)i 



Light brown generally, paler below. Usually a dusky or darker 

 brown band, variable, along front side of snout to eye and then behind 

 eye as dark blotch and this may continue to suprascapula. Often 4 

 or 5 dark transverse bands across predorsal, first usually extends over 

 before eye, second may be from one eye to the other, third from close 

 behind each eye, and others at occiput and close before spinous dorsal. 

 From base of spinous dorsal broad yellowish white transverse band 

 down over side 4 or 5 scales in extent then broad blackish brown band 

 to soft dorsal origin. From base of soft dorsal broad blacldsh brown 

 band, 3 or 4 scales wide, down to middle of side, often with anterior 

 dark band appearing as pair of broad bands. Blackish brown saddle 

 on caudal peduncle 4 scales wide down to middle of side. Spinous 

 dorsal buff basally and most membranes with dark brown terminally. 

 Soft dorsal dark brown largely on outer half of fin as 3 or 4 longitudinal 

 still darker bands. Anal with 5 or 6 irregular longitudinal dark brown 

 bands. Caudal pale brown. Pectoral pale brown, darker above. 

 Ventral grayish basally, terminally dark brown with 7 or 8 waved 

 gray transverse bands, each edged with dark line. 



This species, restricted to the Hawaiian subregion, is very close to 

 Pseudupeneus trifasciatus, but differs at once in the broad pale or 

 yellowish area below the spinous dorsal. 



U.S.N.M. No. 17990. Honolulu. Dr. T. H. Streets. Length, 193 to 198 mm. 



Two examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 26822. Johnston Island. Length, 270 mm. Type of Upeneus 



velifer. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 55077. Hawaiian Islands. Albatross collection (No. 2721). 



Length, 210 mm. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 55460. Honolulu. Bureau of Fisheries (Nos. 03951, 04001). 



Length, 168 to 170 mm. Two examples. 

 U.S.N.M. No. 55510. Hawaiian Islands. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 143 to 



190 mm. Eight examples. 



