88 BULLETIN ()F THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



181. Mulloides japomcus (ITouttuyn). 



Four specimens from Bulau (no. 3901 to 3904; length 4.75 in.). Head 3.5 in length; depth 3.85; scales 

 30; 3 or 4 dusky oblique bands on caudal, almost obliterated on lower lobe, an indistinct dusky line on side 

 from bead to caudal. 



No dill'crence can bo detected in these specimens when compared with specimens from Japan. 



.\fuUu.i japonicux Ilouttuyn, Verb. Holl. Maat. Weet. Haarlem, x.x., deels, 2 stuk, 1782, p. 311-34fi, Nagasaki. 

 MuUoklcs jnponicus, Gunther, Cat., i, 404; Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxi, 1900, 552 (Misaki). 

 Upcncus jdjionicus, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. I'nis.i.. in, 339 (460), 1829 (Japan). 



182. ITpeneus tragula Richardson. 



Tliree specimens from Bacon (no. 3(i34 to 3(i3G; length 5.25 to 6.5 in.). 



Upeneus tragula Richardson, Ichtli. China, in Kept. Brit, .\ssoi-. , xv, 1845, 220, Canton; Giinthcr. Cat., i, 398. 



183. Upeneus sulphurus Cuvier & Valenciennes. Bihqui. 



Six specimens from San Fabian (no. 3921; length 3.5 in.). 



Upeneus sulphurus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., in, 331 (4.50), Antjer. 

 Upcneoides sulphurcus, Gunther, Cat. , i , 398. 



184. Upeneus sundaicus (Bleeker). 



One specimen from Bacon (no. 3201; length 5.1 in.). Head 3.5 in length; depth 3.75; eye 4 in head; 

 interorbital 4; scales 2-32-5; dorsal viii, 9; anal ii, 0; teeth in villiform bands on jaws, palatines, and 

 vomer, those on vomer very minute, easily overlooked, possibly sometimes absent. Color in spirits yellowish, 

 an indistinct dark longitudinal line from eye to caudal; fins unmarked. 



fpcnfoidfs sitndai'cus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., vin, 18.55, 411, East Indies, and .\tlas,ix,pl. cccxciv,flg. 2; Giinther, 

 Cat., 1,399. 



185. Pseudupeneus moana .Jordan & Scale. 



One specimen from Bacon (no. 3249; length 9 in.). 



Upeneus trifasciatus Giinther. Fische der Siidsee, 59, pi. 44, fig. B (Vavau; Samoa; .\raboyna): not of Lac^pfede 

 Pseudupeneus moana Jordan & Scale, Fishes of Samoa, Bnll. Bu. Fisheries, xxv, 1905 (1906), 274, Samoa. 



186. Pseudupeneus bifasciatus (Lac^pfede). Pinovugnan. 



One specimen from Bacon (no. 3275; length 8.75 in.). 



MuUus hifaseiatus Lac^pfede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., ni, 404, pi. 14, fig. 2, 1801, no locality. 



Pseudupeneus hifaseiatus, Jordan & Everraann, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., xxni, 1903, 258, fig. 107 (Hawaiian Islands) 



187. Pseudupeneus barberinus (Lac^pfede). 



One specimen from San Fabian (no. 3972; length 5.2 in.) and one from Bacon (no. 38S6; length 4.75 in.). 



Mullus barberinus Laeep6de, Hist. Nat. Poiss.. ni. 400, pi. 13, fig. 3, 1801. 

 Upeneus barberinus, Giinther, Cat., i, 405 (Amboyna: Moluccas; India). 



188. Pseudupeneus indicus (Shaw). Tiao. 



Three specimens from Bacon (no. 3615, 3616, and 4108; length 5.5 to 6.5 in.) and one from Bulan 

 (no. 3672; length 7.75 in.). 



iluUus iTldicus Shaw, Zool., IV, pt. 2, 014, 1803. Indian Seas. 

 Vpeneus indieus, Giinther, (^.at., i, 400 (China). 



189. Pseudupeneus spilurus (Bleeker). 



One specimen from Bulan (no. 3861; length 4 in.). This species has a distinct black spot on caudal 

 peduncle above the lateral line and a dusky blotch at the anterior origin of lateral line. 



Upeneus spilurus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., vi, 395, 1S54, Nagasaki: Gunther, Cat., i, 400. 



