94 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxii. 



1901, p. 84 (Nagasaki).— JoKDAN and EvERMANN,Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus.,XXV, 



1902, p. 334 (Keerun, Giran). 



Pseuddpeneus mclicus Jordan and Seale, 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). 

 Pampeneus indicus Bleeker, Bouro, p. 148; Revis. Mull., 1874, p. 27. 

 Upeneus russellii Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1829, p. 465, 



(after Russell). — Richardson, Ichth. China, 1846, p. 220 (Canton) . — Bleeker, 



Percoiden, 1849, p. 62 (East Indies). 

 Upeneus waigiensis Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1829, p. 446 



(Waigiu). 

 Upeneus 7nalabaricns CvYiER and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1829. p. 467 



(Malabar).— Gunther, Cat. Fishes, I, 1859, p. 407 (Philippines); Fische d. 



Sudsee, I, 1873, p. 58, pi. xlv, fig. B (Formosa, Philippines, Zanzibar, 



Savaii, Tonga). 

 MuUus 7nalabaricus PhAYFAiR, Fish. Zanz., p. 41 (Zanzibar). 

 Upeneus griseofrenatus Kner. Sitz. Wien. Akad., 1868, XVIII, p. 305, pi. in, fig. 7 



(Fiji). 



Habitat. — South Seas and India, north to Riu Kiu Islands. 



Head 3i in length; depth 3|; depth caudal peduncle 1\\ eye 4i in 

 head; width interorbital space 3f ; length snout ''2>-^-^\ maxillary 3yV; 

 D. VIIl-9; A. 7; scales in lateral line 30. 



Interorl)ital space convex; snout short; eye located nearer border of 

 opercle than tip of snout, a distance equal to | its diameter. Edge 

 of maxillary covered by preorbital sheath; jaws equal. Teeth of jaws 

 in a single row, widely spaced, rather blunt; vomer and palatines smooth. 

 Pseudobranchia? large; gillrakers, 6+17, rather long and slender. 

 Peritoneum dusky. Barbels extending a little beyond edge of pre- 

 opercle. Opercular spine flat and sharp. Scales ctenoid, those of 

 snout, maxillar}", and jaw not concealed beneath thick skin; 3 rows 

 above lateral line, 5 between lateral line and l)ase of anal fin. Pores 

 of lateral line with 5 or branches. First dorsal spine minute, the 

 third longest. If in head; depressed tin not nearly reaching base of 

 soft dorsal. Soft dorsal and anal of equal height, 2| in head. Caudal 

 equal in length to head. Pectoral, 1^ in head; ventral, 1^. 



Alcoholic specimens have a light spot on lateral line between the 

 dorsal tins, and a black spot on upper middle portion of caudal 

 peduncle. 



The species is here described from a Formosan specimen about 155 

 mm. long. Doctor Jordan thus describes the colors of a living- 

 example from Apia: 



Olive green, each scale with a darker edge; a large, oblong, golden-yellow blotch 

 under soft dorsal; a large, black blotch before base of caudal; cheeks olive, with 

 blue streaks. Dorsals olive; second dorsal faintly barred with brassy; anal pinkish, 

 similarly barred; ventral and pectoral pinkish; caudal pale, yellowish olive, the outer 

 rays pink; barbels pinkish. 



The species is ahundaut in the Indies, ranging northward to the 

 Riu Kiu Islands. 

 {indicus^ Indian.) 



