NO. 1513. GOATFISHES OF JAPAN— SNYDER. 99 



brick red; lower fins pale. In spirits all traces of the life color dis- 

 appear, the specimens l)ecoming brownish above and silver}^ below. 

 An occasional example has the caudal narrowl}" tipped with duskj^ 

 and the upper lobe indistinctly barred. Length about 170 mm. 



Described from specimens obtained in the market at Wakanoura, 

 Avhere it was the smallest and commonest representative of the family. 

 Taken also at Nagasaki and Tokyo. In the specimen figured, the 

 dorsal markings are faded. 



(Japanese, he7il, red; ,s•a.s•7^^, a smear or daul).) 



lo. UPENEUS SULPHUREUS Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



Upeneus aiilplmreus Cuviek and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., HI, 1829, p. 

 450 (Antjer). — Bleeker, Revis. Mull., 1874, p. 4 (Batavia). — Jordan and 

 Seale, Fishes Philippines MS. (Cavite). 



Upeneus bivittatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VII, 1831 (Coro- 

 mandel ) . 



Upeneoides sulj)hureus Bleeker, Act. Soc. Nederl., II, Amboina, 1857, p. 45 

 (Amboyna). — Gunther, Cat. Fishes, I, 1859, p. 398 (Red Sea, Amboyna, 

 China, New Hebrides). — Kner, Novara Fische, 1865, p. 67. — Day, Fishes 

 India, 1878, p. 120, pi. xxx, fig. 3 (India). — Steindachner and Doderlein, 

 Fisch. Jap., II, 1883, p. 23 (Nagasaki). — Jordan and Snyder, Prelim. Check 

 List, 1901, p. 84. 



Upeneoides fasciolatxs Day, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1868, p. 151 (India.) 



Upeneus pinnifasdatus STKiyiDAcmiKR, Ich. Not., X, 1870, p. 2 (Nagasaki). 



Habitat. — East Indies, north to Nagasaki. 



Head 3| in length to base of caudal; depth 3|; depth caudal pe- 

 duncle 8f ; ey^e 3f in head; width interorbital space 3f ; length snout 

 2j; maxillary 2|; D. VIII-9; A, 8; scales in lateral line 36. 



Snout rather short; anterior profile steep; eye located high in head, 

 midway between tip of snout and border of opercle; interorbital space 

 only slightly convex. Lower jaw shorter than upper; maxillary 

 extending to below center of pupil, broiid and rounded posteriori} ., 

 the upper edge slipping under preorbital. Teeth in villiform bands 

 on jaws, vomer, and palatines. Pseudobranchia3 large; gillrakers, 

 7+18, long and very slender. Barbels extending to a vertical passing- 

 midway between edge of preopercle and opercle. Preopercle smooth; 

 opercle with but a trace of a spine at angle; scales ctenoid; head com- 

 pletel}" scaled; 3 rows between lateral line and dorsal, between lat- 

 eral lino and anal; dorsal, anal, and caudal with minute scales; pores of 

 lateral line with 4 to 6 branches. First dorsal spine minute, the sec- 

 ond longest, li in head; dorsal and anal of equal height, 2 in head; 

 caudal 1^; pectoral, li; ventral, If. 



Color in spirits, brownish above, yellowish below; upper parts with 

 traces of narrow, yellow stripes; spinous dorsal with 3 horizontal 

 stripes, the upper one terminal and dense black; soft dorsal and caudal 

 edged with dusky. 



Described from a specimen measuring 130 mm., from Samoa. 



