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7. PSEUDUPENEUS PLEUROSPILOS 1 Bleeker). 



Upeneus pleurospilos Bleeker, Natur. Tyds. Nederl. Ind., IV, 1853, ]>. 110 

 (Anaboyna); Verh. Bat. Gen., XXVI, 1854, p. 69 (Japan). — Gunther, Cat. 

 Fishes, I, 1859, p. 407 (copied). 



Habitat. — East Indies, north to Nagasaki. 



D. VII 1-9; A. 8; scales lateral line 30. 



The height of the body is nearly equal to the length of the head, 43 in the total. 

 The barbels reach to the posterior margin of the operculum. Spinous dorsal much 

 lower than the body. Rose colored; each scale of the back and of the sides with a 

 central reddish- violet spot; a black spot below the lateral line, corresponding to the 

 posterior part of the spinous dorsal; cheeks and snout with bluish stripes; the second 

 dorsal with two blue longitudinal bands; the caudal, anal, and ventral fins with 

 yellow bands. — (Giinther after Bleeker.) 



Tiiis species was not seen by the writer. 



{nXevpov^ side: ffTiiXos, spot.) 



2. MULLOIDES Bleeker. 



Mulloides Bleeker, Percoiden, Sept., 1848, in Verh. Bat. Gen., XXII, 1849, 



(flavolineatus) . 



In this genue the teeth in both jaws are in narrow villiform bands. 

 There are none on the vomer or palatines. Species numerous, chiefly 

 in the Pacific Ocean. 



{i/iullus, the surmullet: siSog^ likeness.) 



8. MULLOIDES JAPONICUS (Houttuyn). 



Mullns japonicus Houttuyn, Mem. Harl., XX, 1782, p. 334 (Nagasaki). 

 Upeneiis japonicus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1829, p. 460 



(Japan). ' 

 Mulloides japonkvs GtJNTHER, Cat. Fishes, I, 1859, p. 404 (copied). 



Ilahltat. — Coasts of southern Japan. 



Head 8i in length; depth •!!; depth of caudal peduncle 11; eye 

 3i in head; width interorbital space 3i; length snout 2f ; maxillary 

 3i; D. Vin-9; A. 7; scales lateral line 37. 



Body slender, the snout pointed. Eye slightly nearer tip of snout 

 than border of opercle. Interorbital space not strongly convex. Jaws 

 equal; maxillary not quite reaching vertical through anterior margin 

 of orbit; evenl}' rounded posteriorly; about two-thirds of its upper 

 edge concealed by preorbital. Teeth minute; in narrow bands on jaws; 

 those in upper jaw in but 2 or 3 rows; vomer and palatines without 

 teeth. Pseudobranchia^ large; gillrakers 7 + 23, long and slender. 

 Peritoneum dusky. Barbels extending to edge of preopercle. Angle 

 of opercle with a small, flat spine; preopercle entire. Head, including 

 snout, maxillary, and chin, scaled; scales of bo^" weakly ctenoid; 3 

 rows above lateral line, 5 rows between lateral line and base of anal; 

 caudal with minute scales; dorsal and anal naked. Tubes of lateral 



