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eye, with a marked indentation above eye; preorbital unsealed, its 

 free hind edge with or without 1 to 4 small spines; maxillary ends 

 beneath front edge of eye; first dorsal soft ray prolonged; tips of 

 pelvic fins reach beyond anus; caudal fin slightly emarginate. 



Color in alcohol of 3 specimens from Japan (USNM 57752-53), 

 81 to 87 mm. standard length, uniform light yellowish brown, the 

 fins pale yellowish. The life color is golden yellow. Two specimens 

 in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia from Hong Kong 

 (ANSP 76759), 92 and 93 mm. in standard length, show about 5 

 faint bars on the body with short bars between centered on the lateral 

 line and a spot on the opercle behind the eye. Fowler recorded the 

 life color of these as golden yellow brown with brown edges to the 

 scales, yellowish pink caudal peduncle, and red caudal fin. 



Remarks. — The types of aureus are in the Rijksmuseum van 

 Natuurlijke Historic at Leiden. Boeseman (1947, p. 33) designated 

 No. 536 as lectotype. The type of Cirrhites gihhosus Guichenot from 

 Macao (MNHN 3060) is the largest specimen of aureus seen; it 

 measures 117 mm. in standard length and 138 mm. in total length. 

 Guichenot described his type as yellow, with brownish j^ellow back 

 and yellowish fins. 



The 4%-in. specimen reported from Misaki, Japan, by Jordan and 

 Herre was believed to have been taken from "rather deep water." 



Cirrhitichthys calliiirus Regan 



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Cirrhitichthys calliurus Regan, 1905, Joiirn. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 16, 

 p. 322, pi. B, 3 (type locality, Muscat, Gulf of Oman). 



Diagnosis. — Dorsal rays X,12; anal rays 111,6; pectoral rays 

 i,6,vii or ii,5,vii; lateral-line scales 42; 3 rows of large scales above 

 lateral line in middle of body; 10 scales below lateral line to origin of 

 anal fin; gill rakers 3 or 4 + 1 + 9 or 10 (2 specimens. Red Sea). 



Depth of body 2.4 in standard length; snout 3.6 in head length; 

 longest dorsal spine 2.3 in depth; bon^^ interorbital space 1.6 in eye; 

 median anterior part of interorbital space and region between nostrils 

 not scaled; profile of head, excluding eye, with a marked indentation 

 above eye; preorbital unsealed, the free hind margin without spines; 

 maxillary ends slightly posterior to vertical at front edge of eye; fu-st 

 dorsal soft ray prolonged; tips of pelvic fins reaching slightly beyond 

 anus; caudal fin slightly emarginate, almost truncate. 



Color in alcohol brown (the centers of the scales are a little paler 

 than the edges, hence the body has a slight linear pattern); caudal 

 fin abruptly pale yellowish with a broad blackish posterior border 

 and about 18 small blackish spots; dorsal and anal fins brown like 

 body; paired fins pale; lips pale. Regan stated that the fish is brown- 



