44 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. Vou. 62. 
UPENEUS BARBERINUS (Lacépéde). 
Head, 3; depth, 34 to 32; D. VITI—I, 8,1; A. I, 6, 1; scales, 28 in 
lateral line to caudal base and 8 more on latter; 2 or 3 scales above 
lateral line to soft torsal origin, 6 below to spinous anal origin; 
13 predorsal scales; snout, 1? to 14 in head; eye, 5 to 54; maxillary, 
34 to 34; interorbital, 4 to 44. Gill-rakers, 6+21, lanceolate, 14 in 
gill-filaments, which 13 in eye. Scales with 5 basal radiating striae, 
apical denticles 140 to 142 and circuli fine. Color in alcohol pale 
brown, sides and below, whitish. Dorsal darker apically, fins other- 
wise mostly pale. Deep brown band from each side of snout tip to 
eye, then back to suprascapula and along lateral line till oppo- 
site soft dorsal, when continued upward to upper surface of caudal 
peduncle. Round, deep brown spot, size of eye, in lateral line at 
caudal base. Length, 163 to 173 mm. Two from Zamboanga. 
UPENEUS MULTIFASCIATUS (Quoy and Gaimard). 
Head, 34 to 34; depth, 34; D. VIII—I, 8,1; A. IT, 6, 1; scales, 
27 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 more on latter; 2 scales above 
lateral line to soft dorsal origin, 3 above to spinous dorsal origin, 
7 below to spinous anal origin; 14 predorsal scales; snout, 14 to 12 
in head; eye, 5 to 5%; maxillary, 22 to 22; interorbital, 32 to 33. 
Gill-rakers, 7-+-28, lanceolate, about as long as filaments or 12 in 
eye. Scales with 7 radiating basal striae, apical denticles 139 to 
141 and circuli very fine. Color in alcohol, pale brown above, still 
paler to whitish below. Deep brown blotch close behind eye, about 
its equal. Another, much larger, at front two-thirds of soft dorsa! 
base and finally one saddle like on upper surface of caudal peduncle. 
Pale vertical streak at soft dorsal origin and interspace between 
soft dorsal and caudal dark blotches, pale-like belly. Spinous dor- 
sal grayish. Soft dorsal blackish medianly and basally, including 
all of last ray. Upper half of soft dorsal with two closely set sub- 
marginal parallel lines. Anal pale, with four or five longitudinal 
brownish lines. Other fins all pale. Ventrals margined externally 
with brownish, also upper and lower edges of caudal lobes nar- 
rowly brownish. Length, 168 to 190 mm. Two from Zamboanga. 
MULLOIDES AURIFLAMMA (Forskal). 
Head, 34 to 34; depth, 3$ to 44; D. VII—I, 8,1; A. I, 6, 1; scales, 
35 in lateral line to caudal base and 2 more in latter; 3 scales above 
lateral line to soft dorsal origin, 3 above to spinous dorsal origin, 6 
below to spinous anal origin; 14 predorsal scales; snout, 24 in head; 
eye, 4; maxiallary, 32 to 33; interorbital, 34 to 32. Gill-rakers, 7+18, 
lanceolate, 2 in gill-filaments, which 14 in eye. Scales with 6 or 7 
basal radiating striae, apical denticles 105 and circuli very fine. 
Color in alcohol pale olive above, sides and below lighter to whitish- 
