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large scales on cheek (the lower row partially covered by third row) ; 

 depth of body about 2.7 to 2.8 in standard length; snout short, not 

 pointed, its length about 4 to 5 in head length; mouth highly oblique; 

 lower jaw projecting anterior to upper; maxillary short, ending slightly 

 posterior to front edge of eye; a tuft of cirri from membrane near tip 

 of each dorsal spine; membranes of dorsal fin not deeply incised, the 

 one between fifth and sixth dorsal spines notched less than one-fourth 

 length of spines; third dorsal spine the longest, its length about 2.3 to 

 2.5 in depth of body; first dorsal soft ray produced into a filament; 

 pectoral fins long, the longest rays reaching to a vertical at base of 

 first or second anal soft rays; longest unbranched pectoral ray nearly 

 twice as long as longest branched ray; tips of pelvic fins reaching or 

 nearly reaching origin of anal fin ; caudal fin lunate, the lobes extending 

 as filaments, the caudal indentation about 1.3 to 1.5 in head length. 



Color in alcohol uniform light yellowish brown, the fuis pale yellow- 

 ish except outer thu'd of spinous portion of dorsal fin which is dusky. 

 Life color probably orange-yellow. 



Remarks. — Two syntypes of iwlyactis , 84 and 92 mm. in standard 

 length, are in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historic at Leiden 

 (No. 5845). M. Boeseman wrote that the larger example is in better 

 condition than the smaller. The larger one is here designated as the 

 lectotype. 



C. polyactis is known from the 2 type specimens from Amboina, 

 one specimen from Timor (Weber, 1913, p. 259), one from Japan 

 (Tanaka, 1917), one from Queensland, Australia (McCulloch, 1922, 

 p. 243), one from the Philippines (Fowler, 1943, p. 65, fig. 11), and 

 one from Madagascar (Smith, 1951, p. 647, fig. 3). In addition, the 

 U.S. National Museum has 6 from the Philippines. 



The holotype of Cyprinocirrhites stigma Fowler (USNM 99505), a 

 42-mm. specimen, was examined. It has a dorsal fin formula of X,16 

 (not XI, 17 as given by Fowler) and possesses palatine teeth. The 

 dark markings on the body ascribed to the specimen b}^ Fowler are 

 merely regions where scales are missing. Fowler distinguished his 

 species from C. ui Tanaka on the basis of several characters, most 

 of which do not appear valid. The larger size of the eye and the 

 longer dorsal spines of stigma (the latter dift"erence not mentioned by 

 Fowler) may be due to the dift'erence in size of the specimens under 

 comparison. The holotype of ui is about 50 ram. longer than the 

 single specimen of stigma. 



The largest of all the known specimens is the one from Madagascar 

 which is 112 mm. in fork length (about 90 mm. standard length). 

 The species appears to live at moderate depths. The Madagascar 

 specimen, for exjimple, was taken at 60 fathoms. The type of C. 

 stigma was collected from 24 fathoms. 



