306 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



T Pseudupeneus (Hobginia) filamentosus Whitley, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South 



Wales, vol. 54, pt. 2, p. 93, pi. 3, 1929 (type; Ontong Java, Lord Howe 



Group) . 

 Upeneus saffordi Seale, Occ. Pap. Bishop Mus., vol. 1, No. 3, p. 71, 1900 (1901) 



(type locality : Guam) . 

 Pseudupeneus aurantiacus Seale, Occ. Pap. Bishop Mus., vol. 4, No. 1, p. 48, 



fig. 14, 1906 (type locality : Tubuai, Austral Islands). 

 Upeneus multifasciatus (not Quoy and Gaimard) Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. 



Sci. Philadelphia, 1929 (1930), p. 648 ("Pacific Ocean" specimen). 



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

 head; eye 6% to 7, 3 to 3% in snout, 1% to 1% in interorbital ; maxillary- 

 reaches % to % in snout, expansion equals eye to % greater, length 

 2y4 to 2% in head; barbels reach ventral origin, length iKo to Iji in 

 head; teeth uniserial in jaws, moderately large, conic; interorbital 

 3% to 4, convex. Gill rakers 7 + 24, lanceolate, equal gill filaments or 

 IK in eye. 



Scales 26 to 28 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 or 3 more on 

 latter; 2 or 3 above, 7 below, 12 predorsal forward to nostril; 3 rows 

 below eye to lower preopercle edge. Tubes of lateral line with but 2 

 to 4 tubules. Scales with 5 to 11 basal radiating striae; 95 to 159 

 apical denticles, with 5 or 6 transverse series of basal elements; 

 circuli fine. 



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

 2% to 2%; A. II, 6, i, first branched ray 2% to 2%; caudal 1% to IK, 

 deeply forked, lobes pointed; least depth of caudal peduncle 1% to Iji] 

 ventral 1% to 1%. 



Pale brown generally, slightly lighter below. Iris yellowish brown, 

 with golden circle around pupil. Fins all pale brown. Soft dorsal 

 and anal with traces of 5 or 6 horizontal darker bro\vn lines than 

 general color of fins. Some specimens also show as many longi- 

 tudinal gray or pale narrow lines longitudinally along upper sides of 

 head. Barbels pale brown. 



Red Sea, Arabia, Zanzibar, Natal, Mauritius, Reunion, Madagas- 

 car, India, East Indies, Philippines, Riu Kiu, Melanesia, Micronesia, 

 Polynesia, Hawaii. Distinguished, aside from its coloration, by the 

 long barbels, usually reaching the ventral fins. Herre and Montal- 

 ban have separated Mullus chryserydros Lacep^de chiefly on account 

 of its violaceous or purplish coloration, retaining uniform orange-red 

 or yellowish- white specimens as Mullus cyclostomus. This contention 

 may be eventually found justified, though it is difficult, if not impos- 

 sible, to identify preserved materials accordingly. The figure of the 

 type of Mullus cyclostomus given by Sauvage is surely identical with 

 my materials. 



17432, 17433 [1934]. Bulan Island, Samales Group. September 13, 1909. 

 Length, 138 to 174 mm. (1934.) Sulphur-yellow, with slight cadmium shade 

 on back and top of head, lower portions paler. Through eye 3 or 4 narrow 



