276 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



765. Pseudupeneus barberinus (Lacepede). Ta'uleia. Samoa; Palau la.; Paumotu Is.; Harvey 



I.; Kingsmill I.; Solomon Is. ; East Indies. 



This widely diffused species is rather common about Samoa, where three large examples were 

 taken. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, reddish gray, with bluish and yellowish streaks on head, 

 the scales edged with bronze; a blackish brown stripe from snout through eye to last dorsal rays; a 

 large dark brown spot at base of caudal; dorsal reddish, brown-edged in front; second dorsal and anal 

 with obscure yellowish cross-streaks; caudal reddish, the rays yellowish; ventral and pectoral pale, 

 tinged with yellowish; barbels white. 



A larger example redder, with marks fainter. 



766. Pseudupeneus barberinoides (Bleeker). New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 



767. Pseudupeneus indicus (Shaw). Ta'uleia; Lailai. Samoa; Tonga; Fiji; Waigiu (as U. waigi- 



ensis Cuvier & Valenciennes) ; East Indies. 



Of this species we have two large specimens from Apia. The golden spot on the side of the back 

 and the black spot on the back of the tail are characteristic. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, olive-green, each scale darker olive at edge; a large oblong 

 golden yellow blotch under soft dorsal; a large black blotch before base of caudal; cheek olive, with 

 blue streaks; dorsal olive, second dorsal faintly barred with brassy; anal pinkish, similarly barred; 

 ventral pink; pectoral pinkish; caudal pale yellowish olive, the outer rays pink; ventral bright pink; 

 barbels pinkish. 



768. Pseudupeneus pleurostigma (Bennett). Hawaii; Tahiti; Gilbert Is.; East Indies. 



769. Pseudupeneus pleurospilos (Bleeker). Shortlandl.; Solomon Is. (Seale); Japan; Eastlndies. 



770. Pseudupeneus preorbitalis (Smith & Swain). Johnston I.; southwest of Hawaii. 



771. Pseudupeneus filamentosus (Macleay). New Guinea. 

 Upeneus JHamentostts Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 1S84, 263, Hood Bay. 



MULLOIDES Bleeker. 



772. Mulloides auriflamma (Forskal). Ula'oa; Vete. Samoa; Hawaii; New Guinea; Guam; 



Borabora; Tubuai; Tahiti and Nukuhiva (Seale); Eastlndies. 

 f Upencus atherinoides Cuvier <k Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VII, 526, Guam. 



This species is abundant throughout the Pacific. We took several specimens in Pago Pago and 

 about a dozen in Apia. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia called ula'oa, olive, belly silvery, flushed with red; a golden 

 stripe, very bright, with yellow shades above and below; a black bar across base of pectoral; ventral 

 and anal blackish yellow; caudal and both dorsals plain golden; pectoral colorless; no bars or spots. 



Another specimen from Apia, light gray olive; back pinkish; opercles pink; a brownish yellow 

 lateral band with yellow shades below; upper fins yellow; lowergray; yellow on sides of head; caudal 

 dull yellow; barbels white. 



773. Mulloides vanicolensis (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Vanicolo; Johnston I. (Smith & Swain). 



774. Mulloides samoensis Gunther. Afolu; Pa sina (white or lady fish — the young). Hawaii; 



Samoa. 



This species is very abundant about Samoa, and scarcely less so in Hawaii. The small black spot 

 on the side near the tip of the pectoral fin is very constant. 



In one specimen from Apia there was a golden orange lateral band somewhat interrupted. Another 

 specimen from this locality was pale, a broad deep dull yellow lateral stripe with yellow shades above 

 and below; yellow dashes on sides of head, besides coppery; a small dark brown spot above end of 

 pectoral in lateral shade; first dorsal anteriorly deep yellow, fading behind; second dorsal pale yellow, 

 caudal bright yellow; lower parts, barbels and fins pure white. 



The i'a sina is plainly the young of the afolu. 



775. Mulloides erythrinus Klunzinger. Hawaii; Laysan; Tahiti; East Indies. 



