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la. Body with 5 vertical dark bars, the most posterior one the darkest; no dark 

 lines on lips (Hawaii, Japan, Madagascar, and Mauritius) . . . fasciatus 



lb. Body without vertical bars, having instead 4 lengthwise rows of pale spots 

 (the upper 2 rows being more evident because of darker upper half of body) 

 and a pale caudal peduncle containing a large black spot; lips crossed with 

 brown lines (Phoenix Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago) . . . hubbardi 



Cirrhitops fasciatus (Bennett) 



Figure 18 



Cirrhites fasciatus Bennett, 1828, Zool. Journ., vol. 4, p. 39 (type locality, Hawaiian 



Islands) . 

 Cirrhites cindus Gunther, 1860, Catalogue . . . fishes . . . British Museum, vol. 



2, p. 73 (type locality, Hawaiian Islands, Madagascar, Mauritius). 



DiAGNOsis.^ — Dorsal rays X,14 (one with 15); anal rays 111,6; 

 pectoral rays ii,6,vi; lateral-line scales 48 to 53; 4 large scales above 

 lateral line in middle of body; 11 or 12 large scales below lateral line 

 to origin of anal fin; gill rakers 4 + 1 + 12 (10 specimens, Hawaii). 



Color in alcohol: alternate broad dark-brown and narrow pale bars 

 on the body, the pale bars divided ventrally by narrow dark bars; 

 broad dark bars vertical anteriorly, slanted posteriorly; last dark bar 

 (fifth) on caudal peduncle the darkest; a dark spot on opercle; head 

 and chest with a reticulation of dark lines. 



Life color from kodachromes of 3 Hawaiian specimens (60 to 75 mm. 

 standard length) taken by the author: body with 5 broad red or red- 

 dish-brown bars (the last across caudal peduncle the darkest) which 

 narrow and angle slightly posteriorly as they pass downward; white 

 interspaces between these bars bisected ventrally by narrow brownish- 

 red bars; head and chest with orange-red to reddish-brown vermicula- 

 tions on white; an indistinct brown spot on opercle at level of lower 

 edge of eye formed by a coalescing and darkening of head markings; 

 dorsal fin mottled red, penetrated basally by continuations of white 

 spaces between dark bars on body; caudal peduncle and fin posterior to 

 dark bar light red; anal and paired fins pale (pinldsh in darker speci- 

 mens). 



Kemarks. — USNM specimens from the Hawaiian Islands and Yoko- 

 hama, Japan, were examined. Gunther (1860) recorded the species 

 (as cinctus) from Madagascar and Mamitius, thus giving the species 

 a unique distribution at the present time. Specimens may eventually 

 be taken at intervening localities between Japan and the western 

 Indian Ocean, such as the Philippines and East Indies. Fowler (1927) 

 recorded a specimen which he identified as cinctus from Christmas 

 Island, Line Islands; however, this fish proved to be Cirrhitichthys 

 oxycephalus Bleeker. 



