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from eye to throat and another rimnmg diagonally forward and 

 do\vnward from eye across maxillary and mandible to chin; a median 

 dorsal dark band running from interorbital to upper lip; a few dark 

 bro^\^l spots on occiput; a dark streak at base of pectoral; 3 dark 

 spots in a vertical line at extreme base of caudal fin, the uppermost 

 located middorsally; caudal fin crossed with 3 vertical rows of spots 

 with slightly paler centers; dorsal fin hyaline with a few dark spots, 

 mostly representing continuation of body bars into base of fin; anal 

 fin hyaline ^^^th a faint bro^vnish band from base of third spine to 

 distal ends of first few soft rays; paired fins pale. Life color not 

 known. 



Remarks. — This species is very closely related to serratus. It 

 differs in the straighter profile of the head the fewer lateral-line 

 scales (see table 3), the larger dorsal cirri, and in color principally 

 in the more obvious posterior bars of dark blotches and intermediate 

 spots and the occurrence of discrete spots to form the dark anterior 

 bars rather than dark edges of the scales as in serratus. Some of these 

 differences, such as the lack of indentation in the dorsal profile of the 

 head of falco and the color pattern, may be due to the difference in 

 the size of the specimens. The largest specimen oifalco, the holotype, 

 is 41.8 mm. in standard length and the smallest serratus, 51 mm. The 

 holot3^pe of falco, however, is definitely not a juvenile. It is a ripe 

 female with ova up to 0.3 mm. in diameter. 



1 Both sides counted. 



Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus (Bleeker) 



Figure 29 



Cirrhites oxycephalus Bleeker, 1855, Natuurk. Tijdschr. Nederlandsch-Indie, 



vol. 8, p. 408 (type locality, Amboina, East Indies). 

 Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus Bleeker, 1876-77, Atlas ichthyologique . . . , vol. 8, 



pp. 146, 147, pi. 353, fig. 1 (East Indies). 

 Cirrhites grandimaculatus Lienard, in Sauvage, 1891, Poissons, vol. 16 of Histoire 



physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar, p. 211 (type locality, Mauri- 

 tius). 

 Cirrhites murrayi Regan, 1909, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 404, pi. 66, fig. 6 



(type locality, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean). 

 Cirrhitichthys corallicola Tee-Van 1940, Zoologica, vol. 25, p. 58, text fig. 2 (type 



locality, Gorgona Island, Pacific coast of Colombia). 

 Cirrhitichthys aprinus de Beaufort, 1940 (in part; non Cuvier), The fishes of the 



Indo-Australian Archipelago, vol. 8, p. 9, fig. 3. 

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