NO. 1513. GOATFISHES OF JAPAN— SNYDER. 93 



Pseiidupeiiens hnrherhma Jordan and Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Miis., XXVIII, 

 1905, p. 782 (Negros); Fishes Luzon and Panay, Bull. Bureau of Fisheries, 

 XXVI, p 25, 1906 (1907), (Iloilo); Fishes Samoa, Bull. Bureau of Fisheries, 

 XXV, p. 276, 1905 (1906), (Apia). 



Ilctbitat. — East Indies and South Seas, north to Kiu Kiu Islands. 



Head 3 in length to base of caudal; depth 3| ; depth of caudal peduncle 

 8i; eye6i in head; width interorbital space -if ; length snout If; max- 

 illary 3i; D. VIII-9; A. 7; scales in lateral line 30. 



Snout notably long, its upper contour concave; interorbital space 

 convex; eye nearer edge of opercle than tip of snout, a distance equal 

 to twice the vertical diameter of orbit. Jaws equal; upper edge of 

 maxillary sheathed by preorbital; posterior edge convex. Teeth 

 rather large, widely spaced, in a single series on jaws; none on vomer 

 or palatines. Pseudobranchias large; gillrakers 7+17; long-, slender, 

 and sharply pointed. Peritoneum dusk3\ Barbels extending to edge 

 of preopercle. Opercular spine fiat and blunt; preopercle smooth. 

 Scales ctenoid; those of snout, maxillary, and lower jaw deeply embed- 

 ded; 3 rows above lateral line, 6 between lateral line and base of anal; 

 pores of lateral line with 10 or 12 branches. Spinous dorsal high, 

 reaching to base of third dorsal ray when depressed; first spine very 

 short; the third longest, \\ in head; eighth, 6| in head. Soft dorsal 

 and anal equal in height, 2f in head. Caudal lobes acute, 1^ in head; 

 pectoral. If; v^entral, \\. 



Color in spirits brownish, each scale with a dark edge; a dark stripe 

 extending from upper edge of opercle backward to end of soft dorsal; 

 a round, blackish spot near base of caudal. 



This species is abundant in the East Indies and in the South Seas 

 north to the Riu Kiu Islands. 



According to Doctor Jordan, the life colors are as follows: 



Reddish gray with bluish and yellowish streaks on head, the scales edged with 

 bronze; a blackish brown striiae frou) snout through eye to last dorsal ra3's; a large, 

 dark brown spot at Ijase of caudal; barbels white. Dorsal reddish, edged with 

 brown in front; second dorsal and anal with obscure, yellowish cross-streaks; caudal 

 reddish, the rays yellowish; ventrals and pectorals pale, tinged with yellowish. 



This species is abundant in the East Indies and in the South Seas 

 north to the Riu Kiu Islands. It is here described from Samoan 

 specimens. 



(Name unexplained; perhaps for Barberini.) 



5. PSEUDUPENEUS INDICUS (Shaw). 



MiUlus hidicus 8haw, Genl. ZcjoL, IV, 1803, Pt. 2, p. 416 (Vizagapatam; after 

 Rahtee goolivinda of Russell). 



Upeneus indicus GtJNTHER, Cat. Fishes, I, 1859, p. 406 (China); Fische d. Sudsee, 

 I, 1873, p. 57 (Samoa).— Day, Fishes Malabar, 1865, p. 28 (Malabar); Fishes 

 India, 1878, p. 126, pi. xxxi, fig. 4 (India).— Ishikawa and Matsuura, 

 Prelim. Cat., 1897, p. 54 (Riu Kiu). — JoRDAxand Snyder, Prelim. Check List, 



