brown, dusky around edges, each ldabe with meny obscure transe 
verse dusky cross lines. Pectoral yellowish, with brown base, 
Ventral pale brownish, edges all around pale dusky. Barbels 
brownish medially, tips pale. Length 243 to 275 mm, 
1t would thus appear that the main character separating 
M. bifasciatus is the pair of short barbels, exactly as shown 
by Lacépede, together with an entirely different color-pattern. 
The Tahiti example in the Wilkes collection shows the second 
dark vertical band originating at front of soft dorsal base as 
in the specimens of U. multifasciatus, but it is unlike the 
latter in Lene the first band descend entirely from the spinous 
dorsal base, 
166 
Sauwaee includes Mullus multifascietus Quoy and Gaimard | 
167 
He describes the 
color as red, with 2 black bands opposite the dorsalis, which 
shows it agrees with M. bifasciatus Lacépéde. The latter gives 
a crude figure with but 2 dark vertical bands first from bases 
of first to third dorsal spines and about 2 scales in extent 
forward from spinous dorsal origin. The second blotch is from 
base of second dorsal fin most its extent, though neither band 
extends on the fin base. The barbels are shown as short, barely 
extended beyond the eye. SO eM eR S 
165. ist, Nat, Madagascar, Poiss., vol,16,1891, Pp. ek's 
166, 350, Pl. 59, fig. 1. Oahu 
and Maui. 
cana el ~~. 
Té7, Hist Nat .Poiss.,v0l.3,1002, pp. 505,404,P1.14,fig.2. 
