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Arabia, Zanzibar, Delagoa Bay, Natal, Madagascar, Seychelles, 

 India, Philippines, China, Riu Kiu, Japan, Polynesia, Hawaii. Known 

 chiefly by its coloration, the light and dark postocular bands and the 

 short barbels, which reach only opposite hind preopercle edge. In 

 addition to the dark postocular band there is also one below the eye, 

 indistinctly defined, though parallel with the upper one, which extends 

 till above pectoral. All my specimens have the caudal peduncle 

 blotch above the lateral Une. 



22808. Cataingan Bay, Masbate. April 18, 1908. Length, 96 mm. 



4830. Jolo market. February 11, 1908. Length, 270 mm. 



6169. Jolo market. March 6, 1908. Length, 260 mm. 



A415. Jolo market. March 7, 1908. Length, 240 mm. General color rose. Dark 

 stripe begins behind snout, passes through eye and backward near dorsal axil, 

 thus about width of eye; above yellowish stripe begins behind head; reddish 

 brown blotch on caudal peduncle, slightly larger than eye. Cheek nearly sil- 

 very, with purplish shades about margins. Breast and lower body surfaces 

 white. Barbels pale. Iris silvery. Dorsals rosy, second mottled with yellowish. 

 Anal very pale rose with narrow bars of lemon-yellow about equal to interspaces. 

 Caudal rosy. Paired fins nearly scarlet basally. 



4317. Station 5060. October 13, 1906. Length, 224 mm. 



A.N.S.P. No. 12474. Tahiti. Dr. J. K. Townsend. Length, 22 mm?. As Upeneus 

 pleiirospilos and Upeneus luteus. Though in poor condition, the whitish saddle 

 behind the soft dorsal still reflects vivid brassy in certain lights. 



A.N.S.P. Nos. 52991, 52992. Delagoa Bay, Portuguese East Africa. H. W. Bell 

 Marley. Length, 140 to 150 mm. 



A.N.S.P. Nos. 53040, 53041. Natal coast. IL W. Bell Marley. 1925. Length, 

 123 to 290 mm. 



PSEUDUPENEUS CYCLOSTOMUS (Lacepfide) 



Mullus cycloslomus Lac^jp^de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, pp. 383, 404, pi. 14' 

 fig. 3, 1802 (no locality). 



Upeneus cycloslomus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, p. 472, 1829 (type; 

 Seychelles). — Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godefi"roy, No. 4, p. 14, 1869 (Samoa). 

 — BouLENGER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 658 (Muscat). — Sauvaqb, 

 Hist, Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., p. 226, pi. 26, figs. 4-4a, 1891 (t,vpe, said 

 to be from Mauritius). — Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, p. 502, 

 1912 (Okinawa). — Herre and Montalban, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 36, 

 No. 1, p. 123, pi. 6, fig. 3, 1928 (Tablas and Sibuyan Islands). 



Upeneus cyclosloma Ruppell, Neue Wirbelth., Fische, p. 101, 1835 (Mohila). — 

 GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 409, 1859 (Moluccas, Ceram, 

 Amboina). — Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeflfroy, No. 3, p. 7, 1866 (Samoa). — 

 Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 20, p. 746, 1870 (Koseir, Red 

 Sea). — Schmeltz, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 7, p. 40, 1879 (Samoa). — 

 PoHL, Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, No. 9, p. 27, 1884 (Samoa). — Meyer, Anal. 

 Soc. Espafi. Hist. Nat., Madrid, vol. 14, p. 16, 1885 (North Celebes).— 

 Norman, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 9, p. 321, 1922 (Natal). 



Parupeneus cycloslomus Steindachner, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-nat. 

 KL, vol. 70, p. 486, 1901 (Honolulu). — Pellegrin, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 

 vol. 39, p. 231, 1914 (Nossi B6, Madagascar). — Barnard, Ann. South 

 Afric. Mus., vol. 21, pt. 2, p. 586, 1927 (Natal coast). 



Parupeneus cyclosloma Zugmayer, Abh. Baj^er. Akad. Wiss., math.-phys. KL, 

 vol. 26, pt. 6, p. 11, 1913 (Oman). 



Pseudupeneus cycloslomus Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, p. 276, 

 1905 (1906) (Pago Pago). 



