1. UPENE0IDE9. 399 



five yellow longitudinal bands ; belly yellow. The dorsal fins \vitli 

 two or three longitiidinal bands, and ^ith the top black. The caudal 

 white-edged, the upper lobe brownish. 



Red Sea ; East IncUan Archipelago ; Chinese Sea. 



a. Half-grown. Red Sea. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



b. Half-grown : not good state. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. 



Frank. 



c. Half-grown. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



?rf. Half-grown: stuffed. New Hebrides. Voyage of the Herald. 



4. Upeneoides moluccensis. 

 Bleeker, Atnboina, vi. p. 409. 



D. 7 ||. A. 8. L. lat. 38-39. 



The height of the body is 5| in the total length, the length of the 

 head 4| ; the space between the orbits is flat. The vomerine teeth 

 form a continuous angular band. The barbels do not reach to the 

 posterior margin of the praeoperculum. The height of the spinous 

 dorsal is 1| in that of the body. Rose-colom-ed, with a yellow 

 lateral band ; the caudal and dorsal fins with alternate yellow and 

 pearl-coloured bands ; those of the spinous dorsal horizontal, those of 

 the second dorsal and of the caudal oblique ; the upper caudal lobe 

 with blackish tip. {Bl.) 



Sea of Amboyna. 



5. Upeneoides bensasi. 



Mullus bensasi, Temm. ^- Schlcg. Faun. Japan. Poiss. p. 30. pi. 11. f. 2. 

 Upeneoides bensasi, Bleek. T'erh. Batuv. Genootsch. xxvi. Japan, p. 71. 



D. 7|j. A. 7. L. lat. 30. 



The height of the body is 5-5| in the total length, the length of 

 the head 4|-4|. Vomerine teeth in an angular uninterrupted band. 

 The height of the spinous dorsal not, or scarcely less than, that of 

 the body. Rose-coloured : dorsal fins with two or thi-ee deep-red 

 longitudinal bands ; the upper caudal lobe with four obHque deep- 

 red bands. 



Japanese Sea. 



6. Upeneoides simdaicus. 



Upeneoides vittatus, Blcekei; Perc. p. G-3. 



sundaicus, Bleeker, Amhoina, vi. p. 411, and Act. Sor. Nederl. ii. 



Amhoina, p. 47. 



D. 8 1 f A. 8. L. lat. 34-35. 



The length of the head is 4|^ to 5 in the total. The barbels 

 reach to tlie posterior margin of the prieopcrculura. The spinous 

 dorsal as high, or nearly as high as the bod)'. Back light violet ; a 

 broad brown band from the eye to the caudal. Fins rose-coloured ; 

 the soft dorsal with five yellow longitudinal stripes ; the upper caudal 



