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broad dark brown bands which ahnost totally obliterate the ground color supe- 

 riorly, but are discontinued on the lower third of the sides, while many of the scales 

 above the lateral line are crimson, occasionally even forming short longitudinal 

 bars, and in front of the bases of the pectorals there are several spots similar to 

 those on the head; the spinous portion of the dorsal fin is mottled with black, 

 crimson, and grey; the soft is light-colored with a broad black basal band, and 

 indications of a dusky median longitudinal band more pronounced posteriorly; 

 the anal fin is reddish brown; the ventral fins are crimson on the inner side, while 

 the pectoral rays are crimson, v.ith the intervening membrane grey; the base of 

 the caudal is crimson, the remainder grey, and it is ornamented with two rows of 

 oblong black spots. 



Remarks. — Apparently only 2 specimens are known, both from 

 Lord Howe Island off Australia. The type, 8% in. in length, is 

 catalogued in the Australian Museum as No. 1.1841. According to 

 Ogilby, it was caught in "deep water" by hook and line and was 

 "quite unknown to the islanders." The second specimen, 161 mm. in 

 standard length (7% inches in total length), was kindly sent on 

 loan to the author by A. C. Wheeler of the British Museum (No. 

 1926.6.30.88). 



Cirrhitus rivulatus Valenciennes 



Figure 6 



Cirrhites rivulatus Valenciennes, 1855, Voyage autour du monde ... la Venus, 

 vol. 5, p. 309, pi. 3, fig. 1 (type locality, Galdpagos Islands). 



Cirrhitus betaurus Gill, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 259 (type 

 locality, Cape San Lucas, Baja California). 



Diagnosis. — Dorsal rays X,ll or 12; anal rays 111,6; pectoral 

 rays i,6,vii; lateral-line scales 45 to 49; 5 rows of large scales above 

 lateral line in middle of body (6 to origin of dorsal fin and 4 beneath 

 most of soft portion of dorsal fin); 9 scales below lateral line to origin 

 of anal fin; gill rakers 5 to 7 + 1 + 10 to 12 (rarely 12) (14 specimens, 

 Panama, Mexico, and Clipperton Island). 



Bony supraorbital ridge low; pectoral fins do not reach tips of 

 pelvic fins; interorbital on adults not scaled, covered with tiny 

 papillae (juveniles seem to have a few imbedded scales on inter- 

 orbital space); depth of body 2.6 to 2.8 in standard length (3 to 3.4 

 for other species of Cirrhitus); snout length of adults about 3 in 

 head length (about 3.3 in small juveniles); longest dorsal spine 

 about 3 in depth (4 on large adults) (2.2 to 2.7 for other species of 

 Cirrhitus); caudal fin of juveniles slightly emarginate, of adults 

 slightly rounded; upper margin of preopercle of juveniles with fine 

 serrations, smooth on adults. 



Color m alcohol brown, w'lih. irregular but usually vertically 

 elongate spots with dark inner and pale outer edges arranged in 5 

 near-vertical bars on body (on juveniles these bars are solid dark 

 brown); bands on head, mostly radiating from eye, and at pectoral 



