NO. 1513. GOATFISHES OF JAPA'N— SNYDER. 97 



line with 3 or 4 branches. Dorsal spines very slender; the first long-est, 

 li in head; apparentl}^ not preceded by a minute, embedded spine; soft 

 dorsal and anal of equal height, the longest ray 2^ in head. Lobes of 

 caudal acutely pointed, about eciual to length of head. Ventrals 

 slightly longer than pectorals, If in head. 



Color in spirits brownish above, silvery t)elow. 



Two specimens, 140 mm. long, from Misaki. 



This species is certainly the jajjoawi's of Cuvier and Valenciennes, 

 and it is probably also that of Houttuyn, although Houttuyn says 

 scarcel}^ anything about the species, and part of that is untrue." 



{japonicus, Japanese. ) 



3. UPENEUS Cuvier. 



Upenens CvxiER, Regne Animal, 2d ed., 1829, p. 157 (f(ttatvs, etc.). 



Upeneiis Section I, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1829, p. 



448 {viUnius). 

 Upeneoides Uleeker, Pereoiden, 1849, p. 6.'^ [riUalns). 



Teeth in villiform l)ands on jaws, \omer. and palatines. Pacific 

 Ocean. 



{upeneun^ a Latin name of some tish from i)7it}vtj, upper lip.) 



KEY TO SPECIES. 



((. Dorsal spines VII, the tirst lonu; and slender; caudal lobes barred in life; scales 

 36 hensasi, 9 



(i(t. Dorsal spines VIII, the tirst very short. 

 b. Scales small, about 36 in lateral line; anal rays 8; irillrakers about 7+18 



sulphureus, 10 

 bb. Scales larger, about 30 in lateral line; anal ray 7; gillrakers about 2 + 12. 

 c. Body with brown lateral strij)e; spinous dorsal with a black spot., iragula, 11 

 cc. Body plain; dorsal fins narrowly edged with dusky subrittatus, 12 



g. UPENEUS BENSASI ( Temminck and Schlegel) . 

 BENISASHI (RED-SMEAR I. 



MuUua bensasi Temminck and Schlegel, Faun. Japan. Poiss., 1845, \>. 30, pi. xi, 

 •fig. 2 (Nagasaki). 



Upeneoides bensani Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen., XXVI, 1854, p. 71 (Nagasaki). — 

 GuNTHER, Cat. Fishes, I, 1859, p. 399 (copied). — (?) Dav, Fishes India, 

 1878, p. 121, pi. XXX, fig. 5 (Madras, Coromandel).— Ishikawa and Mat- 

 sutiRA, Prelim. Cat., 1897, p. 54 (Tokyo). 



Upeneoides japonicus Steindachner and Doderlein, Fisch. Jap., II, 1883, p. 22 

 (Oshima, Kochi, Tokyo, Tango). — Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., XXIII, 1900, p. 358 (Tokyo); Prelim. Check List, 1901, p. 83 (Yoko- 

 hama). (Not Mullus japonicus Houttuyn.) 



Upeneoides tokisensis Steindachner and Doderlein, Fisch. Jap., II, 1883, p. 22 

 (Tokyo). 



"D. VII-9. Caudal forked; mouth toothless; color more yellow than red; length 

 6 inches. 



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