4. MTJLLOIDES. 403 



Teeth in both the jaws in several series, but neither on the vomer 

 nor on the palatine bones. 



From the Red Sea, through all the Indian Seas, to Polynesia. 

 Atlantic coasts of Tropical America. 



1. Molloides flavolineatus. 



MuUus flavolineatus, Lacep. iii. p. 406. 



aureo\'ittatus, Shaw, Zool. iv. p. 618. 



Upeneus flavolineatus, Cuv, 8f Val. iii. p. 456 ; Rujyp. N. JT". FiscJie, 



p. 101. t. 26. f. 1 ; Jenyns, Zool. Beagle, Fishes, p. 24 

 ? Hypeneus flavolineatus, var., Cant. Catal. p. 36. 

 Mulloides flavolineatus, Bleek. Ceram, ii. p. 697. 



D. 7 1 -g-. A. 8. L. lat. 35-36. L. transv. 2/5-6. Ctec. pylor. 18. 



Vert. 10/14. 



The height of the body is 5 j in the total length ; the space between 

 the eyes is 1^ in the length of the snout, and flat ; the barbels reach 

 to the vertical from the angle of the praeoperculum ; the spinous dorsal 

 is nearly as high as the body. A broad citrine band from the eye to 

 the caudal; yellow streaks on the snout ; fins immaculate. 



From the Red Sea to the Chinese Sea. 



a. Adult. Sine patria. From the Haslar Collection. 

 6. Adult male : skeleton. From the Haslar Collection. 



c. Half-grown. China. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



d. Half-grown. Madagascar. Presented by Dr. J. E. Gray. 



e. Intestines of specimen h. 



The skeleton differs very little from that of Mullus barbatus ; the 

 posterior process of the intermaxillary is more elongate, and equals 

 in length the descending branch ; the limbs of the praeoperculum 

 have a rectangular direction towards each other, the angle itself being 

 slightly rounded. The basal portion of the brain-capsule is rounded ; 

 the length of the abdominal poxtion of the vertebral column is to that 

 of the caudal as 1 : 1*46. 



2. Mulloides flavovittatus. 



Upeneus flavovittatus, Poey, Memor. Cuba, p. 224. lam. 17. f. 4. 

 D. 7 I 9. A. 7. L. lat. 38-41. L. transv. 3/7. Caec. pylor. 10-18. 



Vert. 10/14. 



The height of the body is one-fifth of the total length ; the space 

 between the eyes is 1| in the length of the snout, and flat; the 

 barbels reach to the vertical from the angle of the praeoperculum ; 

 the spinous dorsal is much lower than the body. A broad citrine 

 band from the eye to the caudal ; yellow streaks on the snout ; fins 

 immaculate. 



Caribbean Sea. 



a-c. Adult and half-grown : skins. Jamaica. From Dr. Pamell's 

 CoUeetion. 



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