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only slightly longer than ninth spine; third of lower 7 unbranched 

 pectoral rays the longest; shape of caudal fin, though unlvno\^Ti be- 

 cause of broken tips, probably truncate or sHghtly rounded; hind flap 

 on anterior nostril with about 18 cirri. 



Color in alcohol brown, with 9 irregular slightly diagonal dark 

 brown bars, the first on nape and the last at base of caudal fin; faint 

 longitudinal pale lines following centers of scale rows, these most 

 evident below lateral line (lines appear to be formed by white connec- 

 tive tissue beneath a scale at the juncture of the two scales that it 

 overlaps); fins light brown. Life color unknown. 



Remarks. — This species is morphologically similar to P. forsteri 

 and P. hemistictus (see Key), but very different in color. 



It is apparently known only from the holotype which was collected 

 in Nuku Hiva by the Zelee expedition in 1838. During a brief stay 

 in the Marquesas Islands, the author noted that this island group, 

 although possessing essentially an impoverished Indo-Pacific fish 

 fauna, appears to have a moderate number of endemic species; 

 however, these species do not approach in magnitude the endemism 

 of the shore fishes of the Hawaiian Islands. P. typee may prove 

 to be an example of one of these indigenous forms. 



Paracirrhites hemistictus (Giinther) 



Figures 11, 12 



Cirrhites hemistictus Giinther, 1874, Fische der Siidsee, vol. 1, pt. 3, p. 69, pi. 50, 



B (type locality, Raiatea, Society Islands). 

 Cirrhites polystidus Giinther, 1874, Fische der Siidsee, vol. 1, pt. 3, p. 70, pi. 50, 



A (Society Islands). 

 Amblycirrhitus hemistictus Marshall, 1950, Bull. Raffles Mus., no. 22, p. 183, pi. 



18 (Cocos-Keeling Islands, Indian Ocean). 

 Paracirrhites species one. Harry, 1953, Atoll Res. Bull. 18, p. 88 (Raroia, Tua- 



motus) . 

 Paracirrhites hemistictus Schultz, in Schultz and collaborators, 1960, U.S. Nat. 



Mus. Bull. 202, vol. 2, p. 265, pis. 106,E and 111,C (Bikini Atoll, Marshall 



Islands) . 



Diagnosis. — Dorsal rays X,ll; anal rays 111,6; pectoral ra3^s i,6,vii; 

 lateral-line scales 48 to 51; 5 rows of large scales between lateral line 

 and spinous portion of dorsal fin; 11 scales below lateral line to origin 

 of anal fin; gill rakers 6 or 7 + 1 + 11 to 13 (9 specimens, Gilbert, 

 Society, and Tuamotu Islands). 



Snout almost entirely scaled; depth of body 2.8 to 3.2 in standard 

 length; width of body 1.9 to 2.2 in depth (width relatively greater in 

 larger specimens); upper two-fifths of free margin of preopercle finely 

 serrate; a slight concavity in margin of preopercle just below serrate 



