FAMILY LABRIDAE — SCHULTZ 165 



lb. Body without alternating dark and light streaks; pelvic fins without a black 

 spot; pectoral fin rays ii,12 P. evanidus " Jordan and Evermann 



PSEUDOCHEILINUS HEXATAENIA (Bleeker) 



Plate 99,B 



Cheilinus hexataenia Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Indo.-Ndcrl., vol. 2, p. 4, 1857 



(type locality, Amboina). 

 Pseudocheilinus hexataenia Bleeker, Atlas ichthyologique . . . vol. 1, p. 73, pi. 



23, fig. 2, 1862 (Amboina, Goram). — Fowler and Bean, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Bull. 100, vol. 7, p. 341, 1928 (Philippine specimens only, 21968; 1975, and the 



one from Galera Island). 

 Pseudocheilinus psiftaculus Kner and Steindachner, Stizb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 



vol. 54, p. 376, fig. 7, 1866 (type locality, McKean Island, Phoenix Islands). 

 Cossijphus echis Guichenot, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, vol. 5, p. 197, 



pi. 12, fig. 5, 1869 (type locality, Madagascar). 



SPECIMENS STUDIED 



Bikini Atoll: 5 stations, 10 specimens, 28 to 39 mm. 

 Eniwetok Atoll: 1 station, 1 specimen, 20 mm. 

 Rongelap Atoll: 5 stations, 15 specimens, 23 to 46 mm. 

 Likiep Atoll: 1 lot, Univ. Washington, 1 specimen, 37 mm. 



Description. — Various counts are recorded in table 92 (p. 129). 



Head 2.5 to 2.7; greatest depth 2.5 to 2.7; longest pectoral ray 4.8 

 to 4.9; snout tip to anus 1.5 to 1.6; snout tip to dorsal origin 2.3 to 2.4; 

 all in standard length. Eye 2.9 to 3.6; postorbital length of head 2.1 

 to 2.3; fleshy interorbital space 4.0 to 4.2; longest pectoral ray 1.7 to 

 2.0; least depth of body 2.0 to 2.1; all in length of head. Eye in 

 fleshy interorbital space 0.7 to 0.9. 



Dorsal profile of head forming an angle of 50 to 60 degrees with 

 ventral contour of head ; pectoral fm reaches to opposite lateral line 

 pore 9; first soft ray of pelvics longest; distal margin of caudal fin 

 rounded; all the spiny dorsal rays pungent; second anal spine longer 

 and stronger than third ; extending from tip of anal spines I and II on 

 adult males is a long fleshy filament. 



Color in alcohol. — Background coloration light greenish ; a black spot 

 near dorsal edge of caudal peduncle at base of caudal fin; a median 

 dorsal brownish streak in front of dorsal fin and six more brown 

 streaks on upper side, following each scale row, the fifth is usuafly 

 fainter than the others; dorsal surface of head, posteriorly, with 7 or 8 

 alternating light and dark streaks; basal area of fins bluish green. 



Color when alive. — The following description was recorded for Alba- 

 tross silk tag No. 1975, Philippines: "Alternate blue and orange stripes 

 from behind eye to base of caudal; two last beginning behind head; 

 lower side of head pink, belly similar, breast with blue shade. Blue 



«< Psevdocheihnus evanidm Jordan and Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., vol. 22 (1902), p. 192, 1903 

 (type loeality, Hilo, Hawaii). 



PteudocheiUnm evanidus Fowler and Bean, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 100, vol. 7, p. 341, 1928 (Philippine speci- 

 men, with linen tag No. 2017.) 



