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No type or other specimens were located in those museums visited 

 or at others through correspondence (see p. 391). 



C. bleekeri is evidently very closely related to aureus and calliurus. 

 Day, in fact, ultimately placed his bleekeri in the synonymy of aureus. 

 However, the pelvic fins falling short of the anus, noted by Day, 

 and the different color pattern seem to differentiate bleekeri. It is not 

 inconceivable that aureus, bleekeri, and calliurus may be demonstrated 

 eventually as subspecies of one species in continuous distribution from 

 Japan and China to the Red Sea. 



Day stated that bleekeri is rather common at Madras and that it 

 attains a length of about 4 inches. 



Cirrhitichthys gutchenoti (Sauvage) 



Figure 33 



Cirrhites guichenoti Sauvage, 1880, Bull. Soc. Philomath. Paris, p. 221 (type 

 locality. Reunion); 1891, Histoire Naturelle des Poissons in Grandidier, 

 Histoire physique, naturelle et politique dc Madagascar, vol. 16, p. 212, pi. 

 23, fig. 1 (Reunion). 



Diagnosis. — Dorsal rays X,13; anal rays 111,7; pectoral rays i,7,vi; 

 lateral-line scales 53; 4 rows of large scales above lateral line in middle 

 of body; gill rakers 5 + 1 + 11 (1 specimen). 



Depth of body about 3.1 in standard length; snout 2.95 in head 

 length; longest dorsal spine about 1.8 in depth; bony interorbital 

 space about 2 in eye; median anterior part of interorbital space and 

 region between nostrils scaled; profile of head, excluding eye, with a 

 marked indentation above eye; preorbital with a few small scales 

 posteriorly, the free hind margin without spines; maxillary ends 

 before eye; relative length of first dorsal soft ray unknown (this ray 

 broken on specimen) ; caudal fin truncate. 



Color in alcohol brown with 3 lengthwise rows of large dark brown 

 spots; middle row of spots, which follows lateral line, with a small 

 spot between successive large spots; a small black spot behind eye at 

 upper end of free margin of preopercle ; a dark streak from eye almost 

 to angle of preopercle, a second running from eye to maxillary, and a 

 third running anteriorly on snout from eye; median fins spotted with 

 brown; cirri at tips of dorsal spines pale. 



Remarks. — The holotype (MNHN 4091) measures 112 mm. in 

 standard length and 166 mm. in total length. Other measurements 

 are: depth of body 35.5 mm.; width of body at gill opening 9.3 mm. ; 

 head length 38.1 mm.; snout length 12.9 mm.; snout to end of maxil- 

 lary 11.5 mm.; diameter of eye 12.1 mm.; bony interorbital space 6 

 mm.; first dorsal spine 9 mm.; fifth dorsal spine the longest, 20 mm.; 

 ninth and tenth dorsal spines subequal, 16 mm.; length of pectoral 

 fins 38 mm., the tips of elongate lower rays reaching slightly posterior 



