spinous dorsal; upper caudal lobe with 5 dusky to blackish 
oblique bars, lower lobe with 4, and also 2 median narrow 
horizontal bars on fin, Length 275 ta 303 mm, Une from 
Hile and the other without locality, though likely Hewaiian? 
Compared with a recent example in the Academy, 263 mm, 
long from Honolulu, and agrées in most every detail. 
Upeneoides tragula (Richardson). 
Head 33; depth 4%; D. VIII - I, 8, 1; A. II, 6, i; 
scales ( pockets) 28 in lateral line to caudel base and 3 more 
on latter; 2 scales above lateral line to spinous dorsal origin, 
5 above to soft dorsal origin, 14 (pockets) scales on predorsal; 
snout 2% in head; eye 42; mexillary 2 1/5; interorbital 34, 
Body slender, compressed, back not elevated; least depth 
of caudal peduncle half its length or 2g in head, Head width 
21/8 in its length. Snout conic, tip rather blunt, width 
it its length. Eye elevated, close to upper profile, center 
about midway in head, Mouth moderate, lower jaw included, 
Maxillary slightly beyond front eye edge, though not quite 
to pupil; expansion 1 3/4 in eye. Teeth small, simple, conic, 
in bands in jaws, on vomer and palatines; no others, Barbels 
not quite to hind preopercle edee, 15 in head, flexible, Front 
nostril small simple pore, about midway in snout length; hind 
one short vertical slit close before front eye edge. Inter- 
orbital level, Opercular spine small, about level with lower 
pupil edge. 
