Circuli very fine; lateral line mostly concurrent with dorsal 
profile, slopes obliquely doen on caudal peduncle side to 
middle of caudal base; tubes with very short branches, few or 
little developed on posterior scales{ Third dorsal spine 1 2/3 
in head; first dorsal ray 2 7/8;second anal spine 4g?; caudal 
well forked, upper lobe 1 1/3; pectoral 1 3/5; ventral 14. 
Color faded dull brownish in alcohol, fins all brownish, dorsals 
pale. Length 198 mm, One from the Pacific?, possibly the 
Philippines, 
This species was originally described with the head 4 in 
total length tincluding caudal) and depth 5, while our example 
shows head 3 7/8 and depth 4 1/3. The height of spinous dorsal 
wes given as l 2/% in body, etic our example shows 1 2/5, 
Bleeker's fives |” varies in showing head 3 3/5 in total length, 
depth 4 4/5, the long maxillary, proportion of the eye, rather 
gmall dorsal fin with third spine longest, moderate ventral, 
depressed dorsal with 2 scales between its tip and soft dorsal 
origin. Although the lateral line is shown with apparently 
more branches than our example, this may be the artist's over- 
sight. Jordan and Evermann figure the type of Upeneus preorbi- 
talis Smithsand Swain, and show the lateral line without any 
iMivenesst From their figure it would otherwise appear allied, 
though it is shown with second dorgal spine largest, apparently 
5 scales between depressed spinous dorsal tip and soft dorsal 
origin, The disagreement in the much shorter maxillary, given as 
ee 
z . 
L7i Atlas Ich,Ind.Neerl.,vol.9,1877,?1.392,fig.4. 
17> Bull. U.S.Fish Com.,vol.od,part 1,1903(1905), p.263,fig.111. 
