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in middle of body; 12 scales below lateral line to origin of anal fin 

 (1 specimen, Formosa; gills and viscera have been removed). 



Longest pectoral rays extending slightly posterior to a vertical at 

 anus; depth about 3.2 in standard length; origin of dorsal fin over 

 hind edge of opercular membrane. 



Color in alcohol light tan with about 10 vertical dark brown bars 

 of unequal width, most of which narrow as they pass downward on 

 the body; an ocellated black spot as large as eye on back above 

 lateral line extending on to posterior half of soft portion of dorsal 

 fhi; several bro^vn bands and blotches on head, but no large dark 

 spot on opercle; membrane behind tip of each dorsal spme blackish, 

 cirri pale. 



Remarks. — In the description of unimacula, Kamohara stated that 

 palatine teeth were absent. Because other species of Amhlycirrhitus 

 have teeth on the palatines, the author wrote Kamohara requesting 

 that he re-examine the type for such teeth. He reported that pala- 

 tine teeth were present but small and difficult to see. 



After Kamohara was queried, the second knowm specimen of this 

 species was cataloged at the U.S. National Museum. It was col- 

 lected by R. E. Kuntz in shallow water on the west coast of the island 

 of Lan Yu, about 40 miles east of southern Formosa. The fish 

 measures 63 mm. in standard length. The holotype (No. 6387, 

 Biological Laboratory, Kochi LTniversity, Japan) is 85 mm. in standard 

 length. It was taken in a tide pool at Somachi, Ryukyu Islands. 

 The Lan Yu fish difi'ers from the type as described m having 48 in- 

 stead of 50 lateral-line scales, in the lower jaw not projecting anterior 

 to the upper, and in the pelvic fins just reaching the anus instead 

 of falling short of it. 



Genus Cirrhitichthys Bleeker 



Cirrhitichthys Bleeker, 1856, Natuurk. Tijdschr. Nederlandsch-Indie, vol. 10, p. 



474. (Type species, Cirrhites graphidopterus Bleeker, probably by monotypy = 



Cirrhites aprinus Cuvier.) (Bleeker, 1856, reference not seen; pagination from 



Gill, 1862, and Bleeker, 1876-77.) 

 Cirrkitopsis Gill, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, pp. 105, 109. (Type 



species, Cirrhites aureus Temminck and Schlegel, by monotypy; proposed 



as a subgenus.) 

 Acanthocirrhitus Fowler, 1938, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 85, p. 50. (Type 



species, Cirrhites oxycephalus Bleeker, by original designation and monotypy.) 



Diagnosis. — LTpper 1 or 2 and lower 6 or 7 pectoral rays un- 

 branched; dorsal soft rays 12 or 13; palatine teeth present; upper 

 margin of preopercle coarsely serrate (the serrations usually spinous), 

 lower margin smooth or serrate; preorbital w^ith hind margin free for 

 about one-fom"th to three-fourths the distance from lower edge to eye 

 (this free edge may bear small spiuelike serrations in some species); 



