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morrisi, Fowler made errors (he reported lateral-line scales as 47 

 instead of 51; dorsal spines as IX instead of X; pectoral raj^s as iii,6,v 

 instead of ii,7,v; thii'd dorsal spine as 2% in head instead of 2.7; second 

 anal spine as 2.5 in head instead of 2.7) which led Bohlke and Briggs 

 into erroneous conclusions on most of the differences they attributed 

 to morrisi and their sejtoni. 



Bohlke and Briggs distinguished seftoni from typus by the different 

 placement and size of the bars on the bod}^, the longer second lower 

 unbranched pectoral ray, the shorter tenth dorsal spine (relative 

 to the third), the shorter second anal spine, the shorter pelvic spine, 

 larger eye, and more numerous preopercular serrations. 



De Beaufort (1940, p. IG) reported and Boeseman confirmed that 

 the type of typus is discolored; thus the comparison in size and place- 

 ment of bars between tyx^us and seftoni must depend on the figm-e of 

 Bleeker (reproduced as fig. 3 by Bohlke and Briggs). Unless an 

 error was made by the artist, the bars are narrower and begin more 

 posteriorly on typus. More impressive than these possible differences 

 is the similarity in pattern. Both typus and seftoni have 9 vertical 

 oblique bars and 4 lengthwise bands (5 in figure of typus, but Bleeker's 

 description gives 4). Both have 2 lengthwise dark bands in the 

 dorsal fin. 



Table 4 presents the counts and proportional measurements that 

 Bohlke and Briggs have utilized to distinguish sejtoni from tyjms 

 and morrisi. Included also are data from a specimen (No. 1929.6.12.2) 

 from Sumatra sent on loan from the British Aluseum and two speci- 

 mens from Baja California collected in 1959 and 1961 oft' Cape San 

 Lucas by R. Rosenblatt and associates of the Scripps Institution of 

 Oceanography and loaned to the author. 



The differences of Bohlke and Briggs appear to be resolved in the 

 more accui-ate data from specimens not seen by them and from speci- 

 mens collected since then* paper was wi'itten. The short second anal 

 spine of the type of sejtoni is probably an abnormality. This spine 

 appears blunt in the figure of the species. The two additional speci- 

 mens from Baja California have a more normally pointed spine which 

 is consistent in length with that of typus and morrisi. Instead of 1, 

 these specimens have the upper 2 pectoral rays unbranched, and the 

 Sumatra specimen has the lower 6 pectoral rays branched like sejtoni; 

 the i,7,vi count of sejtoni is therefore no longer distinctive. 



Two specimens of Oxycirrhites have recently been collected in 

 Hawaii. These may be reported upon by R. and D. Morris. 



Oxycirrhites is evidently a moderately deepwater form. The type 

 of morrisi was dredged from 51 fathoms, the Sumatra specimen from 

 53 fathoms, and the type of sejtoni from 25 fathoms. The second 



