REVIEW OF THE HAWKFISHES — RANDALL 425 



broken on specimen); pelvic fins reach origin of anal fin; snout about 

 3.5 in head length. 



Color light brown with 8 alternately broad and narrow vertical 

 dark bars on body which narrow as they pass ventrally; bar on caudal 

 peduncle and upper part of preceding bar the darkest; small pale 

 spots on snout, nape, and spinous portion of dorsal fin. 



Remarks. — The holotype (MNHN 5428 A) is a dried half-specimen 

 varnished and mounted on glass. The color pattern is so remark- 

 ably close to the West Indian pinos that indicus was thought to be 

 this species at first glance. There are adequate morphological 

 characters, however, to separate the two. The holotype of indicus 

 measures 93 mm. in standard length (which is considerably larger 

 than the largest of many individuals of pinos that have been ob- 

 served). Other measm^ements from the type are: depth 40.5 mm.; 

 liead 32 mm.; snout 9.3 mm.; eye 7 mm.; depth of caudal peduncle 

 13.5 mm.; caudal fin 13.5 mm.; pelvic fins 24.2 mm.; first dorsal spine 

 4.7 mm.; second dorsal spine 8.5 mm.; third dorsal spine 12.6 mm.; 

 ninth dorsal spine 10.8 mm.; tenth dorsal spine 14 mm.; fu'st dorsal 

 soft ray 19 mm.; last dorsal soft ray 10.7 mm.; fh'st anal spine 12 mm.; 

 second anal spine 22 mm.; thu'd anal spine 17 mm.; first anal soft ray 

 broken; last anal ray 12 mm. 



The type shows some notable difTerences from Cuvier's plate. The 

 origin of the dorsal fin is not anterior to the hind edge of the pre- 

 opercle as illustrated, but is in line with a vertical at the hind edge; 

 the caudal fin is longer than illustrated; instead of a single cirrus from 

 the membrane at the tip of each dorsal spine there is a tuft of cirri 

 (congealed to a single unit by the varnish); the preorbital has no free 

 hind edge; there are 27 small serrations on the free margin of the 

 preopercle. 



Known only from India from the type and two small specimens 

 reported by Day. 



Aniblycirrhitus pinos (Mowbray) 



Figure 22 



Pseudocirrhites pinos Mowbraj^ in Breder, 1927, Bull. Bingham Oceanogr. Coll., 



vol. 1, p. 48, fig. 23 (typo locality, Isle of Pines). 

 Pseudocirrhites pinos Tee- Van, 1940, Zoologica, vol. 25, p. 61, text fig. 3 (Isle of 



Pines and Saba Bank). 



Diagnosis. — Dorsal rays X,ll; anal rays 111,6; pectoral rays i,8,v; 

 lateral-line scales 41 to 44; 4 rows of large scales between lateral line 

 and spinous portion of dorsal fin (3 rows beneath soft portion of fin); 



9 scales below lateral line to origin of anal fin; gill rakers 4 or 5 -h 1 +8 to 



10 (18 specimens. West Indies and Florida). 



