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Front's brown generally, little paler below. On trunk each scale 

 with slightly deeper brown center, so edges little paler. A pale 

 transverse band across front of caudal peduncle, slightly greater than 

 scale width. Side of head with oblique indistinct grayish lines, 

 which radiate forward from lower front eye edge and backward from 

 lower hind eye edge. Iris pale brownish yellow. Young with two 

 parallel longitudinal dark brown lines, upper from upper eye edge 

 and lower from lower eye edge, back to caudal base. Fins all pale 

 brownish or grayish. Spinous dorsal with submarginal gray line and 

 about midway in fin another similar and parallel, both extending on 

 front of soft dorsal. 



East Indies to Hawaii. The characters given by Weber for his 

 Cheilinus cingulatus do not hold and are largely individual, if not 

 conditions of preservation. Garrett's figure of Cheilinus hexagonatus , 

 as reproduced by Giinther, shows 3 rows of scales on the cheek, while 

 all of our specimens have but 2 rows. As in a number of instances 

 Garrett's figures are incorrect. 



9851. Cagayan, Sulu Island. January 8, 1909. Length, 138 mm. 



12656. Port San Pio Quinto, Camiguin Island. November 10, 1908. Length, 



125 mm. 

 16959. Simaluc Island. September 22, 1909. Length, 215 mm. 

 21471. Doworra Island, Dutch East Indies. December 2, 1909. LengthJ 



108 mm. 

 9414. Midway Island, reefs. November 7-8, 1907. Length, 175 mm. 

 19224 U.S.N.M. Fanning Islands. Dr. T. H. Streets. Length, 262 mm. 



Type of Cheilinus unifasciatus. 

 19223 U.S.N.M. Same data. 3 examples. Length, 210 to 284 mm. Paratypes. 

 26815 U.S.N.M. Johnston Island. Dr. D. S. Jordan. Length, 395 mm. 

 52720 U.S.N.M. Hawaiian Islands. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 235 mm. 

 28175 and 28176 A.N.S.P. Hawaiian Islands. U. S. Fish Comm. Length, 



202 to 228 mm. 



CHEILINUS ROSTRATUS Cartier 



Cheilinus rostratus Cartier, Verh. Ges. Wiirzburg, vol. 5, 1873, p. 103. 

 Cebu, Philippines. — Elera, Cat. Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 1895, pp. 550, 557 

 (Cebu).— Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. 31 

 (Iloilo). 



Depth 2% to SYs; head 2}4 to 2}i, width 2% to 3>^. Snout 

 23^ to 2^ from snout tip; eye 6, 1 ^ to 23^ in snout, 1 to 1 34 in inter- 

 orbital; maxillary 3 to 33^ in head, reaches ^ to f4 to eye; inter- 

 orbital 43^ to 5 in head, broadly convex. Gill rakers 3+9, lanceolate. 



Scales in lateral line 14 to 16 + 6 or 7+2; 2 scales above lateral 

 line, 6 below, 7 predorsal. Scales with 19 to 22 basal radiating 

 striae, apical 32 to 35; circuli very fine. 



D. IX, 10, 1 or 11, 1, ninth spine 2% to 3 in head, first ray 23^ to 23^^; 

 A. Ill, 8, I, third spine 2}/^ to 3, first ray 2}i to 23^; caudal 13^ to 2, 

 convex behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 3; pectoral 2^ 

 to 2^; ventral 23^ to 3. 



