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1.0; least depth of caudal peduncle 2.8; postorbital length of head 1.9; 

 all in length of head. Least depth of caudal peduncle in its length 

 1.5. Bony interorbital space 1.7 in eye. 



Greatest depth opposite front of dorsal base; profile of head some- 

 what pointed; gill membranes broa.dly joined across isthmus, free, 

 covered with minute scales; maxillary exposed posteriorly, concealed 

 anteriorly; lips thick, broad, lower lip with a notch near tip of chin; 

 lower jaw about equal to upper; mouth oblique; cheeks with about 

 5 irregular rows of large scales, these surrounded dorsoanteriorly and 

 dorsoventrally with minute scales; mandibles with minute scales; 

 nostrils separated by a dermal isthmus, posterior margin of anterior 

 nostril with a tuft of cirri; behind tips of each dorsal spine a tuft of 

 cirri; no accessory pelvic scale; scales cycloid; interorbital space and 

 preorbital posteriorly, scaled; vomerine teeth villiform, in a broadly 

 V-sliape band; no teeth on palatines; a band of villiform teeth in 

 upper jaws, broad anteriorly with an outer row of conical caninelike 

 teeth; lower jaw mth a patch of villiform teeth forward, bordered by 

 a To\i of conical caninelike teeth continuing on side of jaw as a single 

 row; pehdc insertion behind pectoral base, opposite base of fourth or 

 fifth dorsal spine; basally, soft dorsal and anal, caudal, and pectoral 

 fins scaled; first lower simple pectoral ray longest; rear margin of 

 caudal fin truncate; preopercular margin coarsely denticulate; inter- 

 orbital space a little concave. 



Color in alcohol. — Six dark brown broad vertical bars, separated hj 

 paler light brown interspaces: first at origin of dorsal fin; second from 

 between bases of fifth to eighth dorsal spines and extending ventrally 

 to area in front of anus; third from front of soft dorsal fhi and including 

 last two dorsal spines, thence to front of anal fin ; fourth from a little 

 behind middle of soft dorsal base to behind anal base; fifth on caudal 

 peduncle; and sixth across base of caudal fin; all fins and head dark 

 brown. 



Eemorks. — This new species resembles in coloration Cirrhitus 

 fascialus Bennett and Ambly cirrhitus indicus Fowler {= Cirrhitus 

 fasciaius Cuvier and Valenciennes (not of Bennett)). From C. 

 iasciatus Bennett, with X,14 dorsal rays and ii,6,vi pectoral rays, 

 Cirrhitoidea sexfasciata diflers by having X,ll dorsal and i.S.v 

 pectoral rays. 



A. indicus Fowler has X,12 dorsal, ii,7,v pectoral rays, whereas? 

 C. sexfasciata has X,ll and i,8,v, respectively. A. indicus has a 

 few white spots dorsally, but sexfasciata has no white spots. 



This new species may be separated from related species of Cirrhi- 

 tidae by means of the accompanying keys. 



It was named in reference to the 6 dark bars. 



