496 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxn. 



Family MULLID^. 



Pseudupeneus indicus (Shaw). 



rseudupeneiis indtcus Snydek, Proc. U. S Nat. Mus., XXXII, 1907, p. 93. 

 Okinawa (Imperial Musemii). 



Pseudupeneus moana (Jordan and Scale). 



Pseudupeneus moana Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXXII, 1907, p. 89. 

 Okinawa (Imperial Museum). 



Family KYPHOSID.F:. 



Girella Mezina Jordan and Starks, new species. 



Head 3| in length to base of caudal; depth 2J. Eye 3^, in head; 

 maxillary 3; interorbital space 3f. Dorsal XIV, 14; anal III, 11; 

 scales 8-50-17, besides smaller ones. 



Jaws equal, maxillary reaching to below front of eye. Interorbital 

 space broad and convex ; outline of head a little more convex opposite 

 eyes than elsewhere. Preopercle very finely denticulate, the spinules 

 extending around the angle but not much on the lower limbs. Gill- 

 rakers slender ; 22 on lower limb of arch ; the longest one-third of diam- 

 eter of orbit. 



Scales strongly ctenoid; 7 scales in a series extending down and 

 back between front of dorsal and lateral line, 17 up and forward from 

 front of anal to lateral line. Small scales on the basal three-fourths of 

 soft dorsal, caudal, and anal, between the rays. Small scales closely 

 cover the cheek, opercle, and subopercle ; a narrow row of scales along 

 upper edge of interopercle ; no naked area anywhere on opercle or sub- 

 opercle. Small crowded scales covering interorbital space extending 

 to a blunt point at middle of space a little anterior to middle of eye, 

 leaving supraorbital rim naked. Snout, preorbital, maxillary, and 

 mandible naked. 



No notch between dorsals; the last dorsal spine the longest, equal 

 to distance from tip of snout to edge of preopercle. Second anal s])ine 

 as long as third and somewhat stronger; its length two-thirds that of 

 soft rays. Ventrals reaching to vent ; pectoral bluntly pointed at tips 

 of upper rays ; caudal lunate. 



Color light brown, doubtless dark olive green in life, made dark by a 

 dark brown spot at the base of each scale; upper parts of side darker; 

 belly light brown ; under ]:)art of head white ; a conspicuous yellowish- 

 white bar extends across sides from base of seventh and eighth dorsal 

 spines toward vent, but scarcely reaching to vent ; its width is about 

 half that of eye. Dorsal and anal and ventral dark brown, the last 

 darker on upper surface ; pectoral dusky brown with a brown streak 

 across its base. 



This species differs from Girella zonata Giinther, a species from an 

 unknown locality, in having the opercular bones closely scaled. In 



