FAMILY LABRIDAE — SCHULTZ 151 



fin a little rounded; first two spiny dorsal rays flexible (the next seven 

 pungent) somewhat elongate, the membrane between dorsal spines 

 II and III deeply incised; front of head and snout with fleshy keel. 



Color in alcohol. — Background brownish, with a blackish spot on the 

 third and fourth scale rows below lateral line, opposite lateral line 

 pores 9 to 11, this spot about 2 or 3 scales in diameter, a white spot 

 on each scale bordering edges of this spot; area in front of pectoral 

 base white; a large white area behind pectoral base and beneath ap- 

 pressed pectoral fin, a black spot just above rear edge of whitish 

 area. Other color marks faded. 



Remarks. — This new species is distinguished from its closest rela- 

 tive, H. pentadactylus by the position of the dark spot, opposite lateral 

 line pores 7 to 9 on the latter instead of 9 to 11; the dark spot on 

 hypospilus is just above the rear border of the whitish area instead 

 of over it as in pentadactylus; and the blackish spot is opposite the 

 tips of the pectoral fin in hypospilus instead of just in front of pectoral 

 fin tips, as in pentadactylus. Scales on cheek are more numerous in 

 pentadactylus than in the new species. From other Indo-Pacific 

 species referable to the genus Hemipteronotus the new species is 

 distinguished in the key. 



HEMIPTERONOTUS ANEITENSIS (Gunther) 



Plate 92, D 



Novacula aneitensis Gunther, Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum, 

 vol. 4, p. 176, 1862 (type locality, Aneiteum); Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 6 

 (Fische der Sudsee, vol. 3, pt. 8), p. 285, pi. 147, fig. A, 1909. 



Hemipteronotus liogenys Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, vol. 12, 

 p. 539, pi. 20, lower fig. 1904 (type locality, Padang, Sumatra). 



SPECIMENS STUDIED 

 Bikini Atoll: Lagoon, July 29, 1946, Univ. Washington, 2 specimens, 154 to 

 159 mm. 



Description. — Dorsal rays IX,12; anal 111,12 in one, other spines 

 are injured, but 12 soft rays are present; pectoral ii,10; branched 

 caudal fin rays 5+5 or 5+6; pores in lateral fine 22+5; scales above 

 lateral line to base of first soft ray 2, and from lateral line to anal 

 origin 11; gill rakers 6 or 7+1 + 11 or 12. 



Head 3.0 to 3.1; greatest depth 2.6 to 2.7; longest pectoral ray 4.5 

 to 4.6; snout tip to anus 2.0; snout to dorsal origin 3.3 to 3.4; all in 

 standard length. Snout 1.8 to 1.9; eye 5.5 to 5.9; postorbital length 

 of head 1.8; interorbital space 4.6 to 6.0; longest pectoral ray 1.4 to 

 1.5; least depth of body 2.3; all in length of head. Eye in fleshy 

 interorbital space 1.0 to 2.0. 



Dorsal profile of snout forming an angle of 90 to 95 degrees with 

 ventral contour of head; pectoral fin reaches to opposite about lateral 



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