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scale; on lower part of sides suggestions of 3 or 4 yellowish longitudinal stripes; 

 under parts of body white. Opercle and humeral region with deep coral-red 

 blotch; light purple spots about eyes; upper lip pinkish, lower less so; iris 

 edged with coral red. Soft dorsal with 3 longitudinal light green stripes, seen 

 bj'^ transmitted light, interspaces pinkish. Anal with 3 longitudinal light green 

 stripes like on soft dorsal, membranes white. Caudal light coral red on lower 

 part of lower lobe and upper edge of upper lobe, central portion of fin greenish 

 ochre, membranes of central portion hyaline. Pectoral clear, slightly pink 

 basally. Traces of 3 or 4 very bright, clear, green bars across clear ventrals. 



13609, 13610. Amboina market, Amboina, Dutch East Indies. December 6, 

 1909. Length, 190 to 207 mm. 



A.N.S.P. No. 12478. Pacific Ocean. Dr. J. K. Townsend. Length, 111 mm. 

 As Upene.us muUifasciatus. 



PSEUDUPENEUS CHRYSERYDKOS (Lacepfide) 



Mullus chryserydros LAC^p:feDB, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, pp. 384, 406, 408, 1802 



(type locality: Mauritius). 

 Upeneus chryserydros Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, p. 470, 1829 (Mauritius). — 



Sauvaqe, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., p. 228, 1891 (type). 

 Upeneus chryseridros Satjvagb, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Poiss., pi. 26, figs. 3-3a, 



1891. 



Depth 3%; head 3. Snout 2}{ in head; eye SJi, 1% in snout, less 

 than interorbital ; maxillary would reach % in snout, expansion 1% in 

 eye, length 3% in head; barbels reach beyond preopercle, length 1% in 

 head; interorbital very low. 



Scales given as 28 (29 in lateral line on figure) to caudal base and 

 3 more on latter; 2 above, 4 below; 9 predorsal forward at least to 

 eye center, but 2 rows shown on cheek; caudal base scaly; tubes of 

 lateral line shown but slightly branched. 



D. VIII-I, 8, third spine 1% in head, first branched ray 2%; A. I, 7, 

 spine 4%, first ray 3; caudal 1%, deeply forked, lobes slender and 

 pointed; least depth of caudal peduncle 2%; pectoral 1%; ventral Iji. 



Body wine red, with large golden-yellow blotch on caudal peduncle. 

 Eyes surrounded by divergent golden lines. Fins red. Dorsal and 

 anal marked with obhque yellow Hues posteriorly. Length, 265 mm. 

 (Sauvage.) 



Mauritius. Apparently known by its large eye and soft dorsal 

 and anal without posterior points. 



PSEUDUPENEUS XANTHOSPILUKUS (Bleeker) 



Parupeneus xanthospilurus Bleeker, Verh. kon. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam, vol. 

 15, No. 3, p. 37, 1875 (type locality: Amboina); Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erland., 

 vol. 9, pi. (3)293, fig. 5, 1877. 



Depth 3%; head 3. Snout 1% in head; eye 5%, 3% in snout; maxil- 

 lary reaches ^ to eye, expansion sHghtly greater than eye or about 

 2% in snout, length 2% in head; barbel 1%, reaches wdthin 2 scales of 

 ventrals; interorbital moderately high; preopercle edge entire. 



Scales 30 in lateral line (28 on figure); 2 above, 6 below, 3 rows on 

 cheek leaving very narrow naked strip along preopercle edge; 16 pre- 

 dorsal forward opposite front nostril. 



