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Avash of reddish brown. Fins: Yellowish white, the dorsal with 

 a fine black margin. Twenty-seven small specimens. Length 

 about I inch. Guam, June i, 1900. Hab. Red Sea, coast of 

 Africa, seas of India to Malay Archipelago, Marianas. 



109-110. I/Utianus bonhamensis Gunth. Mafuti. 



Head 3; depth 3; eye 3.66; interorbital 3.18; snout 2; max- 

 illary 2.50 into head, not reaching to orbit; mandible 2.20; D. x 9; 

 A. Ill 8; P. 14; V. I 5. Scales 6-48-15. Body oblong, compressed. 

 Brachiostegals 6. Teeth villiform in anterior portion of jaws, with 

 4 canines in front of them; the teeth in hind part of jaws rounded 

 molars, 8 on each side behind the canines, the 4 anterior of these 

 rather sharply pointed. Fins: Caudal emarginate. Pedlorals about 

 the length of head. Ventrals reaching to anal opening, 1.50 into 

 head. Base of anal 2.66 into base of dorsal, the third, fourth and 

 fifth dorsal spines the longest — about one-third the depth of body. 

 Color in spirits: Grayish, wdtli a wa.sh of olive; more or less indis- 

 tinct dusky mottlings on back and sides; sometimes a large black 

 splotch on middle of sides. Axis of peAorals bluish. Fins yellow- 

 ish white. Two specimens. Length 8-10 inches. Guam, June 

 14, 1900. Hab. Marshall Islands, Marianas. 



III. I^utianus monostigtna (Cuv. &Val.). Buah. 



Head 2.50; depth 2.50; eye 4; interorbital 5; snout about equal 

 to eye; maxillary 2.33; D. x 13; A. iii 8. Scales 50. Body oblong, 

 somewhat compressed. Maxillary reaching to below hind third 

 of eye. Color in spirits: Whitish, with a slight wash of reddish 

 brown. A distinct black spot on the lateral line under the anterior 

 soft dorsal ray. Fins yellowish white. Tw^o specimens. Length 

 2 inches. Guam, May 26, 1900. Hab. Polynesia, Marianas. 



Family CIRRHITID^.— Cirrhitoid-fishes. 



Genus PARACIRRHITES Steindachner. 



113. Paracirrhites arcatus (Perkins). 



Head 3; depth 2.50; eye 4; interorbital 2 into snout; D. x 11; 

 A. Ill 6. Scales 5-42-10. Maxillary 2.30. Body oblong and com- 

 pressed. Branchiostegals 6. Preopercle denticulate. Teeth villi- 

 form in both jaws, with a few small canines; villiform teeth on 

 vomer. Fins: Seven simple rays in the pecftorals. Caudal square. 

 Anterior rays of soft dorsal elongate. Base of anal 3.25 into base 

 of dorsal. Color in spirits: Reddish brown, a wide white line above 

 the lateral line from below fifth dorsal spine to the upper half of 

 caudal. A white, brown-edged semicircular ring obliquely behind 

 eye. Three narrow oblique whitish lines on sub-opercle. One 

 specimen. Length 4.5 inches. Guam, June 2, 1900. Hab. From 

 Mauritius to Pacific, Marianas. 



