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c. Side of body with a single dark stripe iKchi/rus, 2 



cc. Side of body with >'< dark stripes; 2 dark spots beliind eye .^piluruK, 3 



aa. (lillrakers comparatively few, about 6+17; caudal peduncle without dusky saddle; 

 scales 30. 

 (I. Caudal peduncle with a round, black spot. 

 e. Spinous dorsal high, reaching beyond origin of soft dorsal when depressed; 



sides with a dusky stripe; scales bordered with black harberhms, 4 



ee. Spinous dorsal low, not nearly reaching base of soft dorsal when depressed; 

 no dusky laterial stripe; scales plain; a yellowish spot on laterial line 



between d( )rsal tins indirus, 5 



dd. Caudal peduncle without black spot; each scale with a dark spot. 

 /. Sides witli a golden lateral stripe; a brownish spot behind eye and another 



above axil chryi^opleuron, 6 



ff. Sides without lateral stripe; a black spot below lateral line under spinous 

 dorsal; cheeks and snout with bluish stripes plearospilof<, 7 



I. PSEUDUPENEUS MOANA Jordan and Scale. 



Upeneioi trifasciatii.'^ Gunther, Fische d. Si'idsee, I, 1873, p. 59, pi. xliv, lig. B. 



IT. C. (Vavau, Samoa, Amboina; not of Lacepede). — IsniK.\wA and Matsi- 



URA, Prelim. Cat., 1897, p. 54 (Okinawa). 

 Pseuditpeneas uuiftifdsridtiif: Bleeker, Revis. Mull., 1874, p. 20, pi. iv, fig. 4 (East 



Indies). 

 Upeneus multlfascutius Seale, Occasional Papers, Bishop Mus., I, No. 3, p. 71, 



1903 (Guam; not of Quoy and Gaimard). 

 Pseudupenem moana Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIX, 1905, 



p. 534 (Tahiti). — Jordan and Seai.e. Bull. Bureau of Fisheries, XXV, p. 274, 



1905 (1906), (Samoa). 



Fig. 1— Pskudupeneus moana. 



Ilahitdt. — South seas north to Riu Kiu islands. 



Head 3 in length to base of-caudal; depth 3i; depth caudal peduncle 

 ^k; eye in head; width interorbital space 3f; length snout If; 

 maxillary 2^; D. VIlI-9; A. 7; scales in lateral series 30. 



Snout elongate, antei'ior profile concave, interorbital space very con- 

 vex, jaws equal. Maxillary, except small posterior portion, concealed 

 •beneath preorbital and wide upper lip. Teeth rather large, blunt, 

 widely spaced; in a single series on both jaws, none on palatines and 



