REVIEW OF THE HAWKFISHES — RANDALL 435 



Remarks. — Named serratus both in reference to the zigzag lines 

 that form the dark bars on the body and the coarse serrations on 

 the preopercle. 



A problem exists with respect to the type localitj^ Although the 

 fish were collected in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, they were taken from 

 around a drydock that was hauled to the Hawaiian Islands a year 

 before from Guam, Mariana Islands. It is possible that this species 

 came from Guam with the drydock. Three adult specimens of 

 Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus that were taken at the same time as the 

 series of serratus constitutes evidence in favor of an initial Mariana 

 Islands locality, for the wide-ranging and relatively common oxyce- 

 phalus is unknown from other collections from Hawaii.^ 



Cirrhitichthys falco, new species 



Figure 28 



HoLOTYPE. — AMNH 20412, a female specimen, 41.8 mm. in 

 standard length. Gulf of Davao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands, 

 Van Name Philippine Expedition, 1937. 



Paratypes.— AMNH 20413, 25.2 mm. in standard length; USNM 

 195954, 32.2 mm. in standard length. Paratypes with same collecting 

 data as holotype. 



Description (data in parentheses are the extremes in counts and 

 measurements for paratypes when differing from holotype). — Dorsal 

 rays X,12; anal rays 111,6; pectoral rays i,7,vi (smallest paratype 

 with upper 2 pectoral rays unbranched); lateral-line scales 42 (42 

 to 45); 3 rows of large scales above lateral line in middle of body; 

 scales below lateral line to origin of anal fin 9; gill rakers 4+1+9 

 (3 + 1+9 or 10). 



Each of the following measurements is given as a percentage of 

 the standard length. Greatest depth of body 34.0 (29.3 to 32.3); 

 width of body at gill opening 14.4 (12.7 to 14.9); head length 35.9 

 (35.3 to 35.7); snout length 11.2 (10.6 to 10.7); eye diameter 9.8 

 (10.0 to 10.2); postorbital length of head 16.0 (15.1 to 16.7); bony 

 interorbital space 4.5 (4.4 to 4.6); least depth of caudal peduncle 

 12.0 (12.1 to 12.7); length of caudal peduncle 14.1 (14.7 to 15.1); 

 snout to origin of dorsal fui 36.3 (33.8 to 35.7); snout to origin of 

 anal fin 65.9 (62.7 to 64.7); snout to origin of pelvic fin 45.0 (42.2 to 

 46.2); length of dorsal fin base 55.5 (51.2 to 56.0); length of anal fin 

 base 14.3 (14.6 to 15.8); length of pectoral fin 39.0 (30.5 to 37.6); 

 length of pelvic fm 22.2 (21.8 to 23.3); length of pelvic spine 15.6 

 (15.2 to 15.4); length of first dorsal spine 8.8 (7.8 to 8.0); length of 



> After the above was written, additional specimens oi serratus were collected by W. A. Starck, II, D. P. 

 do Sylva and others of the Marine Laboratory, University of Miami, in September and October 1961 at 

 Gorgona Island, Colombia, and La Plata Island, Ecuador, within the depth range 5 to 35 feet. 



