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and Paracirrhites amblycej^halus (Bleeker), placed in synonymy by 

 de Beaufort (1940) and other authors, are valid species. 



Specimens of 12 species of hawkfishes were collected in French 

 Oceania (Society Islands, Marquesas Islands and Tuamotu Archi- 

 pelago) and nearby Caroline Atoll (10° S., 150° W.) by the author 

 in 1956 and 1957. These have been deposited in the U.S. National 

 Museum under numbers 190564 to 190586 and the George Vanderbilt 

 Foundation, Stanford University (SU). Analysis of these collections 

 has led to the present review of the family. 



That southeastern Oceania should have more species of cirrhitid 

 fishes than the East Indies or Philippines is contrary to the usual 

 faunal picture wherein the number of species in a group is greatest 

 in the Indo-Malayan region and diminishes eastward. This appar- 

 ent contradiction with respect to the distribution of cirrhitids probably 

 reflects a greater collecting effort in Oceania. 



All available specimens of the Cirrliitidae deposited at the following 

 institutions have been examined: U.S. National Museum (USNM), 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP), American 

 Museum of Natural History (AMNH), Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology at Harvard University (MCZ), Bingham Oceanographic 

 Laboratory at Yale University (BOC), Marine Laboratory of the 

 University of Miami (UMML), Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle 

 in Paris (MNHN), and Museu e Laboratorio Zool6gico in Lisbon. 

 Assistance of the curators of fishes of these institutions and especially 

 of the staff of the Division of Fishes of the U.S. National Museum is 

 gratefully acknowledged; that institution provided working quarters 

 for the author during part of the study, and its material of the 

 Cirrhitidae formed much of the basis for this revision. 



Thanks are due W. J. Baldwin of the University of California at 

 Los Angeles, M. L. Bauchot of the Museum National d'Histoire 

 Naturelle in Paris, M. Bocseman of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke 

 Historic at Leiden, E. H. Bryan, Jr. of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 

 in Honolulu, K. Deckert of the Zoologisches Museum in Berlin 

 W. A. Gosline of the University of Hawaii (UH), T. Kamohara of 

 Kochi University, W. EQausewitz of the Senckenberg Museum at 

 FranMurt, T. Monod of tlie Universite de Dakar, J. Nielsen of the 

 Universitets Zoologiske Museum at Copenhagen, R. Rosenblatt of 

 the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SI), D. W. Strasburg of 

 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Honolulu, M. Torchio of the 

 Museo Civico di Storia Natiu-ale in Milan, A. C. Wheeler and N. B. 

 Marshall of the British Museum (Natural History) (BM), G. P. Whitley 

 of the Australian Museum, and L. P. Woods of the Chicago Natural 

 History Museum for information on specimens and loans. Drawings 



