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upper edge of the eye at the profile of the head. A 24-mm. juvenile 

 collected in Jul}^ 1959 is adultlike in its color and has slightl}'- emargin- 

 ate caudal fin, body depth of 9.5 mm., and eye which juts slightly 

 above the profile of the head. These 4 specimens were collected in the 

 Bahamas in connection with the ichthyological program of Charles C. 

 G. Chaplin and James E. Bohlke and are deposited in the Academy of 

 Natural vSciences of Philadelphia under Nos. 93637 to 93640. 



Amblycirrhitiis biniacula (Jenkins) 



Figure 23 



Cinhitoidea bimacula Jenkins, 1903, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm., vol. 22 (1902), p. 459, 

 fig. 36 (type locality, Honolulu) . 



Diagnosis. — Dorsal raj^s X,12; anal reijs 111,6; pectoral rays 

 i,8,v; lateral-line scales 40 to 42 (only one with 42); 3 large scales 

 above lateral line in middle of bod}^; 9 scales below lateral line to origin 

 of anal fin; gill rakers 3 to 5 + 1 + 10 or 11 (12 specimens, Marshall 

 Islands, Johnston Island, and Tuamotu Archipelago). 



Longest pectoral ray reaching a vertical through base of second anal 

 spine; depth of body of adults 2.8 to 3 in standard length; origin of 

 dorsal fin slightly anterior to a vertical at hind edge of opercular 

 membrane. 



Color in preservative light brown mth about 10 slightly irregular 

 brown bars (some of which break into spots on occasional specimens); 

 an ocellated black spot almost as large as eye on opercle slightly below 

 level of eye and another on back and scaled portion of soft dorsal cen- 

 tered at base of ninth soft ray of fin; upper portion of 3 body bars 

 usually cojoin to enclose that portion of ocellated spot on body and 

 base of soft dorsal; head mottled with brown, some specimens with 1 or 

 2 diagonal brown bands on cheek; tips of spinous dorsal membranes not 

 blackish. 



Remarks. — Jenkins was mistaken in stating that bimacula has no 

 palatine teeth. The holotype (USNM 50702), 41 mm. in standard 

 length, was examined, and teeth were found on the palatines. 



A. bimacula has an extensive range, east Africa (Smith, 1951) to 

 Hawaii; however, records of the species are not numerous. Inter- 

 mediate localities from which it has been taken are: Aldabra (Smith, 

 1955, name only); Comore Islands (Fourmanoir, 1954, name only); 

 Saleyer, East Indies (Weber, 1913; de Beaufort, 1940); Rose Island, 

 Samoa Islands (Schultz, 1943); Raroia, Tuamotu Archipelago 

 (Harry, 1953); and the Marshall Islands (Schultz, in Schultz and 

 collaborators, 1960). A specimen, 54.5 mm. in standard length, was 

 recently collected in the Seychelles by James Morrow and deposited 

 in the Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory at Yale University. The 

 author collected one, 51.5 mm. in standard length, at Makatea in the 



