THE SHORE FISHES. 303 



Cheilinus digrammus (Lacepede). 



.loiiDAX & SioAi.io, Hull. r. S. Hur. I'M)., 1906, 25, p. :?09. 



Ldhnia iliaf/riiitiinuH L.^cepede, Hist. Nat. Pois.s., 1SI)2, 3, ]). 4-lS, 517, TjIS, pi. 1, lifr, 2. 



Chriliiiii.s niiliiilus Bleeker, .\tkis Iclith., lSf)2, 1, )). 04, 6S, tab. 2(), tig. 1. 



No. A171, a specimen (if inches long from Taritari, Gilbert Islands. No. 

 08952, M. C. Z. 29515, a specimen 5 inches long from Kusaie, Caroline Islands. 



Cheilinus undulatus Rippell. 



Neuc Wirb. Fischp, 1835, p. 20, tal'. ti, Hg. 2. JoiU).\N & Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fi,sh., 1900, 25, p. 

 309. 



No. 08953, M. C. Z. 29380, 4i inches long, from Kusaie, Caroline Islands. 

 No. A163, 10 inches long from Taritari, Gilbert Islands. No. A16, 18 inches 

 long from Rangiroa, Paumotu Islands. No. 08872, (i| inches long from Suva, 

 Fiji Islands. 



No. 08872, M. C. Z. 29569, is in very bad condition and the identification 

 is not certain. 



The small example. No. 08953, from Kusaie is similar in color, general 

 shape, and measurements to the fish figured by Giinther in Siidsee, pi. 133, fig. 

 B, except that it has 10 spines. Ours gives the following counts; dorsal X, 9; 

 anal III, 82; scales 3-22-6. 



In No. A163 the color is exactly like that in No. A16, except that it lacks the 

 vermiculations of No. AKi at the axil and base of pectoral. It has dorsal IX, 

 10; anal III, 85; scales 3-22-6; head 2.8 to base of caudal; depth 2.7; orbit 

 7; snout 2.3. 



No. A16 gives the following measurements: head 2.8 to base of caudal; 

 depth 2.75; orbit 8 in head ; snout 2.3; dorsal X,102; anal III, 85; scales 3-22-6 ; 

 ventrals not reaching anal; maxillary not reaching orbit; the posterior edge 

 of gape not reaching orbit by a distance equal to nearly the width of orbit; 

 longest dorsal rays, when depressed, reaching slightly beyond origin of upper 

 caudal rays, anal rays about equal in extent to dorsal rays; caudal rounded. 



In alcohol there are narrow wavy pale bars and reticulations on the caudal, 

 the edge of fin with broad pale margin; soft dorsal and anal similarly colored, 

 but lacking the pale margins; spinous dorsal similarly colored, but the bars are 

 narrower, and more nuirierous; 2 short irregular narrow broken purplish brown 



