FISHES OF THE PHILH'PINE AND ADJACENT SEAS 335 



51057 U.S.N.M, Hawaiian Islands. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 203 mm. 



1 example. 



52202 U.S.N.M. Apia, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 198 to 203 mm. 



2 examples. 



52674 U.S.N.M. Fuako Ba}'. Bureau of Fisheries. Length, 193 mm. 

 52744 and 52750 U.S.N.M. Hawaiian Islands. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 



260 to 265 mm. 2 examples. 

 55033 U.S.N.M. Hawaiian Islands. Albatross collection. Length, 205 mm. 



1 example. 



55360 U.S.N.M. Hilo, Hawaii. Length 160 mm. Bureau of Fisheries. 

 55469 U.S.N.M. Honolulu. Albatross collection. Length, 180 to 240 mm. 



2 examples. 



62362 U.S.N.M. Honolulu. E. L. Berndt. Length, 333 mm. 1 example. 

 9406 A.N.S.P. Hawaiian Islands. Dr. J. K. Townsend. 



17213 A.N.S.P. Hawaiian Islands. Dr. J. K. Townsend. Length, 200 mm. 

 28095 A.N.S.P. Hawaiian Islands. U. S. Fish Comm. Length, 230 mm. 

 28250 A.N.S.P. Honolulu. Jordan and Snyder. Length, 167 mm. 

 29663 A.N.S.P. Honolulu. Jordan and Snyder. 



31704 A.N.S.P. Hawaiian Islands. U. S. Fish Comm. Length, 220 mm. 

 51100 to 51102 A.N.S.P. Honolulu. Jordan and Snyder. Length, 167 to 

 225 mm. 



Genus CHEILIO Lacepede 



Cheilio LAC^piiDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1803, p. 432. Type Cheilio 



auratus Lacepede; designated by Bonaparte, Fauna Italica, Pesc, vol. 



1, 1841, fasc. XXX. 

 Chilio Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1855, p. 263. Type Cheilio 



auratus LAciipfcoE. 

 Micropodus Rafinesqxje, Analyse de la nature, 1815, p. 86. Type Cheilio 



auratus Lacepede, virtually, as Micropodus Rafinesque a substitute for 



Cheilio LacepJide. 

 Eupemis Swainson, Nat. Hist. An., vol. 2, 1839, p. (173) 232. Type Labrus 



fusijormis Ruppell, monotypic. 



Body elongate, compressed. Teeth small, uniserial. No hind 

 canines. Scales 45 to 50 in lateral line. Cheeks scaleless and few 

 rudimentary scales on opercle. Lateral line continuous. Dorsal 

 with 9 flexible spines, not produced, rays 13. Anal spines 3, rays 11. 



Indo-Pacific. Slender labroids of rather large size. 



CHEILIO INERMIS (Forskil) 



Labrus inermis Forskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, p. 34. Moccha, Red Sea 

 Cheilio inermis Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. N^erl., vol. 1, 1862, p.*.82, pi. 31 

 fig. 4 (Java, Bawean, Sumatra, Celebes, Sangi, Ternate, Amboina, Banda 

 Ceram, Goram, Buru, Timor, Letti). — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. 

 vol. 4, 1862, p. 194 (Mozambique, Macassar, Amboina, Philippines 

 Aneiteum); Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 99 (Aden and Zanzibar). — Klun 

 ziNQER, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 1871, p. 530 (Koseir, Red 

 Sea). — Martens, Preuss. Exp. Ost Asien, 1876, p. 397 (Ternate and 

 Amboina).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 3, 1877, p. 407, pi. 88, fig. 4 (Malay 

 Archipelago). — Meyer, An. Soc. Hist. Nat. Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 37 

 (Cebu, Celebes, Tabukan, Sangi, Mysore). — Vinciguerra, Giorn. Ro- 

 mano Scienz. Biol., ser. 2, vol. 19, 1890, p. 486 (Zanzibar). — Sauvaqe, 



