1. UPENEOIBES. 399 



five yellow longitudinal bands ; belly yellow. The dorsal fins with 

 two or three longitudinal bands, and with the top black. The caudal 

 white-edged, the upper lobe brownish. 



Red Sea ; East Indian Archipelago ; Chinese Sea. 



a. Half-grown, lied 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. 



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



4. Upeneoides moluccensis. 

 Sleeker, Amboina, vi. p. 409. 



D. 7 I y. 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 roach to the 

 posterior margin of the pra;operculum. The height (jf the Hj)inous 

 dorsal is 1^ in that of the body. Rosc-colourod, 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 obUque ; the upper caudal lo^e 

 with blackish tip. (Bl.) 



Sea of Amboyna. 



5. Upeneoides bensasi. 



Mullus bensaai, Temtn. (^ Schley. Faun. Japon. Poiaa. p. 80. pi. 11. f. 2. 

 Upeneoides beusaai, IJleek. Verh. Batav, GenootscJi. xxvi: Japan, p. 71. 



D. 7|i. 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 ii\ 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 three deep-red 

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

 red bands. 



Japanese Sea. 



6. Upeneoides sundaicus. 



Upeneoides vittatus, lileeker, I'erc. p. Gu. 



Bundaicua, Sleeker, Amboina, vi. p. 411, and Aet. Soc. Nederl. ii. 



Amboina, p. 47. 



D.8|l. 



A. 8. L. lat. 34-^5. 



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

 reach to the posterior margin of the prajoperculum. The spinous 

 dorsal as high, or nearly as high as the body. 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 



