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16. (See Ic.) Anal rays II or 111,12; dorsal rays IX, 12. 



C. torquatus ^* (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 

 Ic. Anal rays 111,13; dorsal rays usually IX,14 or 15. 



C. lecluse ^s (Quoy and Gaimard) 



Table 94. — Comparison of certain characters for the species of Cymolutes 



CYMOLUTES PRAETEXTATUS (Quoy and Gaimard) 



Plate 92, E 



Julis praetexiata Quoy and Gaimard, in Voyage de . . . V Astrolabe . . . , Zool- 

 ogie, vol. 3, p. 712, pi. 15, fig. 4, 1834 (type locality, "Mauritius"). 



Cymolutes praetextatus (non Quoy and Gaimard), Bleeker, Atlas ichthyologique 

 . . . , vol. 1, p. 146 (in part), pi. 31, fig. 1, 1802.— Day, Fishes of India, vol. 2, 

 p. 409 (in part), pi. 90, fig. 1, 1878. 



SPECIMENS STUDIED 



Bikini Atoll: 1 station, 18 specimens, 39 to 90 mm. in standard length, 

 Rongelap Atoll: 2 stations, 2 specimens, both 44 mm. 



Description. — Certain counts are recorded in table 95. 



Head 2.8 to 3.2; greatest depth 3.6 to 3.7; longest pectoral ray 5.6 

 to 5.8; snout tip to anus 1.8 to 1.9; snout to dorsal origin 3.4 to 3.5; 

 all in standard length. Snout 2.2 to 2.7; eye 4.0 to 4.9; postorbital 



'5 Xyrichthys torquatus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 14, p. .54, pi. 392, 

 1839 (type locality, "Surinam" [East Indies]). 



Cymolutes tateyamaensis Sakamoto, Journ. Imp. Fish. Inst., vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 11-13, fig. 1, 1930 (type locality, 

 Tateyama Bay, Japan). 

 Probably Xyrichthys novaculoides Bleeker and Notmculaxyrichthyoides Bleeker arc synonyms ol this species. 

 Plate 392 of Cuvier and Valenciennes shows 1 more soft ray in dorsal and anal fins than are given in the 

 text. The presence of only II anal spines in the plate follows closely my counts. 



38 Xyrichthys lecluse Quoy and Gaimard, Voyage autour du monde . . . sur ... 1' Uranie et la Physicienne, 

 Zoclogie, p. 284, pi. 65, fig. 1, 1824 (type locality, Hawaiian Islands). 

 Xyrichthys microlepidotus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 14, p. 52, 1839 (type 



locality, Oahu). 

 Novacula microlepis Vaillant and Sauvage, Rev. Mag. Zool., vol. 3, p. 284, 1875 (type locality, Hawaiian 

 Islands). 



