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It was not seen by us in Japan, but it is recorded by Steindachner 

 from Nagasaki. 



{sulphureus, sulphur-yellow. ) 



II. UPENEUS TRAGULA Richardson. 



Upeneus tragula Richardson, lehth. China, 1846, p. 220 (Canton). — Jordan and 

 Seale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVIII, 1905, p. 782 (Negros).— Jordan and 

 Seale, Fishes Philippines MS. (Manila, Cavite, Iloilo, Panay). 



Upeneoides tragula Gunther, Cat. Fishes, I, 1859, p. 398 (Amboyna, Philippines, 

 Canton). — Kner, Novara, Fische, 1837, p. 66. — Day, Fishes India, 1878, p. 

 121, pi. XXX, fig. 4 (India, Andaman Is.). — Steindachner and Doderlein, 

 Fische Jap., II, 1883, p. 22 (Kagoshima). — -Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus., XXV, 1902, p. 335 (Keerun, Giran, Formosa, Hokoto). 



Mullus tragula Playfair, Fish. Zanzibar, p. 40 (Zanzibar). 



Upeneoides mriegatvs Bleeker, Percoiden, 1849, p. 64; Act. Soc. Nederl, II, 

 Amboina, 1857, p. 48 (Amboyna). 



Upeneoides kiusiuana Steindachner and D5derlein, Fisch. Jap., JI, 1883, p. 22 

 (Kagoshima). 



Halntat. — East Indies, north to southern Japan. 



Head 3i in length to base of caudal; depth 4; depth caudal pedun- 

 cle 9; eye 4 in head; width interorbital space 4; length snout 2|; 

 maxillary, 2i; D. VIII-9; A. 7; scales lateral line 3(1. 



Snout rather long and pointed; the anterior profile not steep, but 

 gently sloping from snout to dorsal fin; interorbital space flat or 

 slightly concave. Eye located high in head, midway between tip of 

 snout and edge of opercle. Lower jaw somewhat shorter than the 

 upper; maxillary extending to anterior edge of pupil, rounded pos- 

 teriorly the entire upper edge sheathed by preorbital. Teeth villiform; 

 in broad bands on jaws, vomer and- palatines. Pseudobranchiie large; 

 gillrakers, 2+12, rather long and slender, those of upper row preceded 

 b}'^ 5 rounded knobs; the lower ones followed by 4 or 5 similar eleva- 

 tions. Peritoneum silvery. Coeca 11. Air-bladder large. Barbel 

 not extending quite as far posteriorly as preopercle. Opercle with a 

 weak, flat spine at angle. Scales ctenoid; head, including snout, 

 maxillary and chin completelj^ scaled; 2 rows between dorsals and 

 lateral line, 5 between anal and lateral line. Pores of lateral line with 

 many branches. First dorsal spine minute, the second longest. If in 

 head. Soft dorsal and anal of equal height, If in head. Caudal equal 

 in length to head. Pectorals li, ventrals li in head. 



Color in spirits brown above, light below; a brown stripe extending 

 from snout, through eye along side of body to base of caudal, above 

 which is an indistinct light stripe; dorsals clouded with dusky, a large, 

 black, subterminal spot of irregular outline on spinous dorsal; caudal 

 lobes with 4 or 5 oblique, dark bars, those on the lower lobe broader; 

 pectorals, ventrals, and anal with dusky spots or bars. 



Descrilied from Forraosan specimens about 230 mm. long. 



