MULLIDAE. 123 
1.42 in head; pectoral 1.40; ventral 1.38, inserted slightly in advance of pectoral, 
the latter reaches slightly farther back than ventral, neither reaches vent. 
Color in alcohol: — ground color of the head greenish gray, of the body 
yellowish; posterior part of cheek dusky; vertical margin of preopercle and 
around the eye blackish; dusky mottling on posterior of opercle, behind the eye 
and on top of head; a continuous dusky area from front of spinous dorsal along 
back to a little beyond last ray of soft dorsal; irregular dusky spots in front of 
spinous dorsal or with a mottled appearance from nape to pectoral; irregular 
dusky spots on the scales, from soft dorsal to lateral line, faintly indicating a 
band; another one below the soft dorsal and still another just posterior to soft 
dorsal; end of caudal peduncle and caudal fin dusky; an irregular broad, diffuse, 
dusky area between lateral line and belly, extending from head and disappearing 
on caudal peduncle, most intense in a line with the above mentioned bands; on 
each of the four rows of scales, between the lateral line and the lower base of 
pectoral there is an irregular narrow diffuse longitudinal dusky stripe, most 
intense on anterior margin of each scale; axil of pectoral blue-black; pectoral 
pale yellow; ventrals pale yellow, outer rays dusky above; anal with traces of 
dusky bars; membranes of both dorsals dusky; barbels yellow. 
Our specimen agrees most nearly with Giinther’s description and figure of 
Upeneus trifasciatus (Fische der Siidsee, 1874, 3, p. 59, taf. 44, fig. B). 
Mulloides auriflamma (ForsKAt). 
JorpAN & EVERMANN, Bull. U.S. Fish. Comm., 1905, 23, pt. 1, p. 250, fig. 103. 
Mullus auriflamma ForsKAu, Descript. Anim., 1775, p. 30. 
No. 3291, a specimen 113 inches long from Rikitea, Manga Reva. 
Mulloides samoensis GiNnTHER. 
Fische der Siidsee, 1874, 3, p. 57, pl. 43, fig. B. Jorpan & EverMANN, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm., 1905, 
23, pt. 1, p. 253. é 
One specimen, No. 3292, 63 inches long from Rikitea, Manga Reva. 
Muloides rathbuni (EverMann & JENKINS). 
JorpAN & EvERMANN, Bull. 47, U.S. Nat. Mus., 1896, pt.1, p. 857; 1900, pt. 4, pl. 182, fig. 361. 
Upeneus rathbuni EVERMANN & JENKINS, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1891, 14, p. 158, pl. 2, fig. 4. 
Eighteen specimens 42 to 8 inches long from Acapulco. M. C. Z. 29443 
(8 specimens). 
