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66. Barbels IV2 to 2 times as long as second dorsal spine ; widest expanse 

 of maxillary a little greater than diameter of eye; head about 2.9 

 in standard length ; eye about 4^2 to 5 in head ; color pattern 

 consisting of a pale bar under front of first dorsal ; then a second 

 pale bar under rear base of first dorsal, a third pale bar (narrow 

 as first two) at under origin of second dorsal followed by a more 

 intensely darker bar under front of this fin than preceding dark 

 bars between pale bar ; fourth pale bar very wide, extending from 

 middle of base of second dorsal well on caudal peduncle and wider 

 ventrally; upper part of caudal peduncle blackish posteriorly; 

 gill rakers about 8+1+28; scales about 30. 



Parupeneus trifasclatus (Lacep^de) 

 5&. Second dorsal spine flexible, tip not pungent. 

 7a.. Length of depressed first dorsal fin much shorter than barbels, con- 

 tained about IV2 times in length of barbels; length of barbels 

 about 2.8 to 3.1 times in standard length ; no black blotch on caudal 

 peduncle, no blackish band along upper sides; anterior part of 

 body dark with a large pale area behind second dorsal extending 

 a little below lateral line; fins all dusky; scales about 28 or 29; 

 gill rakers about 6+1+24; no pale area on middle of upper 

 sides below and between two dorsal fins. 



Parupeneus chryserydros (Lacepfede) 



76. Depressed first dorsal approximately same length as barbels; barbels 



about 3.8 to 41/2 times in standard length; scales about 27 to 81; 



gill rakers 6 to 8+1+18 to 21. 



80. An oblong pale blotch just above lateral line from under middle of 



first dorsal to under front of second dorsal; a black blotch on 



caudal peduncle; a black streak from snout through eye but not 



continuing behind head Parupeneus malabaricus (Cuvier) 



86. No oblong pale blotch on sides of body ; usually a dark streak (faint 

 in adults) from snout through eye to upper side of caudal peduncle, 

 lower half of body abruptly paler below this streak and darker 

 above it ; caudal peduncle with a blackish blotch. 



Parupeneus barberinus (Lacep§de) 



Genus UPENEUS Cuvier 



Vpeneus Cxjviee, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 3, p. 448, 1829. (Type, 

 Mullus vittatus Forskdl, designated by Bleeker, 1876.) 



UPENEUS VITTATUS (Forsk&I) 



Mullus vittatus FobskAl, Descriptiones animalium, pp. 10, 31, 1775. 



115684, Tutuila Island, reef at Pagai, June 4, 1939, L. P. Schultz and Frank 

 Taiga, 4 specimens. 



52200, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 4 specimens. 



UPENEUS ARGE Jordan and Ercrmann 



Vpeneus arge Jobdan and Evebmann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22 (1902), 

 p. 187, 1903. 



115685, Canton Island, lagoon, caught in gill net May 12-13, 1939, 2 specimens, 

 215 and 260 mm. in standard length. These have been compared with the type 

 of JJ. arge from Honolulu and agree with it in all characters studied. These 

 two specimens extend the range of this species to the Phoenix Islands. 



