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ray prolonged; tips of pelvic fins reaching beyond anus; caudal fin 

 slightly emarginate. 



Color in alcohol light brown with 6 dark vertical bars (faded on 

 some specimens), the middle 4 of which extend into base of dorsal 

 fin; a dark spot on lateral line on pale interspace between the first 

 4 bars; a group of small dark brown spots in a diamond shape on 

 posterior part of interorbital space and a comparable area of nape; 

 scattered small spots anteriorly on interorbital and dorsally on snout 

 may be present; a group of larger dark brown spots on opercle and 

 one just above upper end of gill opening; 3 dark streaks on head, 

 running ventrally from eye; a small blackish blotch anteriorly on 

 dorsal fin and a larger one on the outer posterior part of spinous 

 portion of fm; soft portion of fin spotted with black; remaining fins 

 pale. Life color given by Cuvier and Bleeker as red with vertical 

 blackish bars. 



Remarks. — -The holotype of aprinus (MNHN 2774) is 61 mm. in 

 standard length and 75 mm. in total length. Other measurements 

 and counts of this specimen are: depth 23.5 mm.; head 20.5 mm.; 

 snout 5.5 mm.; eye 5.5 mm.; bony interorbital 3.2 mm.; first dorsal 

 spine 5.5 mm.; longest dorsal spine 10.2 mm.; first dorsal soft ray 

 broken; pectoral fui 20.5 mm.; lateral-line scales 43; 3 scales above 

 lateral line in middle of body, 4 to origin of dorsal fin, 10 to origin 

 of anal fin; a few small scales anteriorly on interorbital; gill rakers 

 4+1 + 11; serrations on preopercle 18. 



Tlie U.S. National Museum has 8 Philippine specimens (Nos. 

 150609-13), 40 to 71 mm. in standard length, and the holotype of 

 Cirrhitickthys analis Fowler (No. 98901). The American Museum of 

 Natural History has a 71-mm. specimen from Bali (No. 15011). 

 The types of grajyhidopterus Bleeker cannot be sorted from a series 

 of 10 specimens (No. 6810) in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke 

 Historic at Leiden. 



Some recent authors have erroneously used the name aprinus for 

 the species oxycephalus Bleeker. 



Cirrhitichthys serratus, new species 



Figure 27 



Holotype. — USNJM 195943, a female specimen, 62.7 mm. in 

 standard length. Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, S. Tinker, 

 April 1950, from a drydock hauled one year before from Guam, 

 Mariana Islands. 



Paratypes.— USNM 195944, 10 specimens, 49.8 to 63.0 mm. in 

 standard length; SU 55573, 2 specimens, 50.5 and 60 mm. in standard 

 length; BM 1961.3.24.1-2, 2 specunens, 54 and 63.5 mm. in standard 



