404 MTJLLID^. 



d. Large specimen. Cuba. From the Collection of the Zoological 

 Society. 



Poey attributes a single series of teeth to this species ; but I can 

 distinctly distinguish a band of several series of teeth, rather stronger 

 than in the species with villiform bands. 



3. Mulloides vanicolensis. 



Upeneus vanicolensis, Cuv. 8f Val. vii. p. 521. 

 Mulloides vanicolensis, Bleek. Ternate, li. p. 601. 



D-Mi- 



A. 8. L. lat. 35. 



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

 space between the eyes is very convex ; the barbels reach to the pos- 

 terior margin of the prseoperculum. The scapula without spine. 

 The spinous dorsal nearly as high as the body. Coloration uniform. 



Seas of Ternate and Vanicolo. 



4. Mulloides zeylonlcus. 



Upeneus zeylonlcus, Cuv. 8c Val. iii. p. 459, vii. p. 520. 

 D.7||. A. 7. 



The height of the body is 5| in the total length. The barbels do 

 not reach beyond the angle of the prseoperculum. Red : the first 

 dorsal brownish yellow, the second with a black line along the base. 

 {Cuv.) 



Coasts of Trincomalee and New Guinea. 



Air-bladder large. 



5. Mulloides japonicus. 



MuUus japonicus, Houtt. 3Iem. Had. xx. p. 334; L. Gm. i. p. 1340; 



Bl. Schn. p. 79. 

 Upeneus japonicus, Cuv. ^- Val. iii. p. 460. 



D.7|l. A. 7. 



Scapula with a small spine. Coloration uniform. (Cuv.) 

 Sea of Japan. 



5. UPENEUS* 



IJpeneus, sp., Cuv. (§• Val. iii, p. 401. 

 Lpeneu8, Bleeker. 



1. MiUlus auriflamma, Forsk. p. 30; Bl. Schn. p. 79.— Upeneus auriflamma. 



Cuv. 8f Val. iii. p. 461. r t- 



2- cherseryclros, Lacip. iii. p. 406.— Scisena ciliata, LacSp. iv. pp. 308, 



312.— Mullus radiatus, Shaw, p. 618.— Upeneus cherserydros, Cuv. ^ 



Val. iii. p. 470. — Indian Ocean. 



3. Upeneus cinnabarinus, Cuv. iS( Val. iii. p. 475. — Ceylon. 



4. fraterculus, Cuv. 8f Val. vii. p. 524.— Seychelles. 



5- atherinoides, Cuv. Sf Val. vii. p. 626. — Guam. 



6. cyprinoides, Cuv. Sc Val. vii. p. 526.— He de Prance. 



7- luteus, Cuv. 8f Val. vii. p. 521 ; Bled. Perc. p. 63.— Indian Ocean. 



