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36. No tiny black specks. 



4a. Color pattern of snout and region below eye with numerous small 

 roundish dark brown spots; plate 110,D. (Mauritius and Red 



Sea.) C. spilotoceps'" Schultz 



46. Color pattern of snout and region below eye consisting of large dark 



blotches or streaks of more or less plain dark brown coloration. 



5a. Body overlaid with dark brown or blackish spots, in addition to a 



dark brownish background more or less in the form of irregular 



bars, or marbled pattern; interspaces white, but no dark-edged 



white spots C. pinnulatus (Bloch and Schneider) 



56. No dark brown or black spots, in addition to the background of 

 brownish coloration (more or less in the form of irregular bars 

 or marbled pattern) ; often there are roundish white spots with 

 dark edges largely or wholly occurring on the dark brown; inter- 

 spaces whitish; plate 110,A. (Hawaiian Islands; Johnston 

 Island.) C. alternatus ^' Gill 



CIRRHITUS PINNULATUS. (Bloch and Schneider) 



Plate 110,E 



Labrus pinnulatus Bloch and Schneider, Systema ichthyologiae . . ., p. 264, 



1801 (type locahty, Tahiti). 

 Labrus marmoraius Lacep^de, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 3, pp. 438, 



493, pi. 5, fig. 3, 1802 (type locality, "Great Equatorial Ocean"). 

 Cirrhitus maculatus LacepJide, Histoire naturelle des poissons, vol. 5, pp. 2, 3, 



1803 (no locality). 



SPECIMEN STUDIED 



Bikini Atoll: 9 stations, 30 specimens, 24 to 129 mm. in standard length. 



Eniwetok Atoll: 2 stations, 5 specimens, 30 to 137 mm. 



Rongerik Atoll: 1 station, 16 specimens, 25 to 113 mm. 



Rongelap Atoll: 1 station, 4 specimens, 87 to 208 mm. 



Kwajalein Atoll: 1 station, 3 specimens, 75 to 116 mm. 



Guam: 1 lot, 3 specimens, 53 to 218 mm. 



Description. — Dorsal rays, X,ll; anal 111,6; pectoral i,6,vii; pelvics 

 1,5; branched caudal fin rays 7+6; vertical scale rows from upper edge 

 of gill opening to base of caudal fin 39 or 40, with 4 or 5 scales from 

 dorsal origin to lateral line and 9 from lateral line to anal origin ; scale 

 rows on cheek about 16 to 20 ; gill rakers on first gill arch 6 to 8 + 1 + 12. 



Greatest depth 2.7 to 3.0; head 2.4 to 2.7; length of longest branched 

 pectoral ray 4.1 to 4.6; longest lower simple pectoral ray 3.5 to 3.7; all 

 in standard length. Snout 3.1 to 3.7; eye 4.0 to 4.5; tip of snout to rear 

 of maxillary 2.4 to 2.6; greatest depth 1.1 to 1.2; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 2.7 to 3.3; postorbital length of head 1.9 to 2.0; all in length 

 of head. Least depth of caudal peduncle in its length (base of last 



'0 In addition to the types in the U. S. National Museum, I have studied 7 specimens from Mauritius 

 and 3 from the Red Sea, at the Museiuu of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



" Cirrhilm alternatus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 122, March 1S62 (type locality, Honolulu; 

 USNM 8043. holotype). 



