410 UVLLIDJE. 



the head 3|-4 ; the space between the orbits convex ; the greater 

 part of the eye is situated on the posterior half of the length of the 

 head, in which it is contained 5-5g times ; the snout is pointed, and 

 longer than twice the diameter of the eye. The barbels reach to the 

 base of the ventrals ; the height of the spinous dorsal is If in that 

 of the body. Hose-coloured ; two blue stripes on the side of the 

 snout, and two or three others on the side of the head. The second 

 dorsal and the anal bright yellow, with three to live bluish longi- 

 tudinal bands. (Bl.) 



Sea of Manado (and He de France). 



rt. ? Adult : stuffed. Mauritius. From Dr. Janvier's Collection. 



15. Upeneus chrysopleuron. 



Mullus chrysoplem-on, Temm. S,- Schley. Faun. Japm. Poiss. p. 29. 



pi. 12. f. 1. 

 Upeneus biaculeatus, (Gray) Rich. Ichth. China, p. 219*. 

 Upeneoides chrysopleuron, Bleek. Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. xxv, 



Japan, p. 10. 

 Upeneus chrysopleuron, BUek. I. c. xxvi. Japan, p. 70. 



D. 8 I y. A. 8. L. lat. 30. 



The height of the body is nearly equal to the length of the head, 

 and 4| in the total. The length of the snout is twice the diameter 

 of the eye. Crown rather flat ; the teeth of the jaws of unequal 

 .size. The spinous dorsal much lower than the body. Rose-coloured, 

 with a broad golden band from the head to the caudal, extending on 

 the back of the tail ; snout mth bluish streaks ; fins immaculate ; a 

 small blackish spot above the axil. 



Seas of Japan and China. 



«. Adult. China. Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



h. Hulf-grown. China Presented by J. R. Reeves, Esq. 



c. Adiilt. China. 



d. Adult. China. 



€. Adult : stuffed. Presented by J. C. Jerdon, Esq. 

 /. Half-gi'own. Presented by the Zoological Society. 



16. Upeneus jansenii. 



Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Nederl i. Man. en Makass. p. 44. 



D. 8 I j. A. 8. L. lat. 30, 



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

 length of the head one-fourth ; the diameter of the eye is about 

 one-fourth of the latter, and much more than one-half the extent 

 of the snout. Crown rather flat. The barbels reach to the posterior 



* Sir J. Richardson quotes as the first authority, " Gray, Catal. Brit. Mus." 

 A catalogue containing an account of this fish has never been published, tn my 

 knowledge. 



