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196. Cleft of mouth oblique; dorsal rays V or VI-20 or 21; scales 

 33, with 3 above and 4 below lateral line. (Arafura Sea, 



oflf Northern Australia.) Acanthaphritis ^^ Giiuther 



176. Dorsal rays II or III-15 to 18; anal rays about 24; branched 

 caudal fin rays 4+3 or 4. 

 20a, Outer edge of anterior nasal opening ringed with inward project- 

 ing cirri; lateral line along midside of body; dorsal rays 

 III-15 or 16; scales 20, with 3 above and 4 below lateral 



line. (Indo-Pacific.) Cirrinasus, ™ new name 



206. Outer edge of nasal openings without cirri; dorsal rays II or 

 III-15 to 18; pectoral 15 or 16; scales about 32, with 2 

 above and 3 or 4 scales below lateral line. (Hawaiian 



Islands; Australia.) Enigmapercis ^° Whitley 



156. Opercle with 2 spines; subopercle with a single spine; branched caudal 

 fin rays 6 + 5; dorsal rays VI-14 to 18; scales 50 to 71. 

 21a. No dermal tentacle on maxillary. Pectoral rays 21 to 23. 



22a. Space between mandibular rami naked. (Hawaiian Islands.) 



Chrionema *' Gilbert 



226. Space between mandibular rami scaled. (Virgin Islands, West 



Atlantic; Hawaiian Islands in Pacific.) .Chriomystax ^- Ginsburg 



216. A dermal tentacle at rear edge of maxillary; pectoral rays about 23 



to 28. (Atlantic and Indo-Pacific.) Bembrops *^ Steindachner 



«9 Acanthaphritis Gunther, in Report on . . . voyage of H. M. S. Challenger . . . 1873-76, Zoologie, 

 vol. 1, pt. 6, Shore fishes, p. 43, pi. 18, fig. A, 1880 (type species, Acanthaphritis grandisguaviis Qiinther). 



9« Roxasella Fowler, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 100, vol. 14, pt. 2, p. 87, fig. 23, 1913 (type species, Roiasella 

 usiforme Fowhir, preoccupied by Roxanella Merino 1936 in Vermes; holotype USNM 99517). 



Cirrinasus, new name, is hereby selected to replace Roiasella Fowler, typo species, Roxasella f urn forme 

 Fowler. Named in reference to the ring of cirri projecting into nasal openings. 



M Enigmapercis Whitley, Proc. Roy. Zool. Soc. New South Wales 1935-1936, p. 19, 1936 (type species, 

 Enigmapercis reducta Whitley); Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 22-24, 1937 (description); Aus- 

 tralian Mus. Mag., vol. 8, No. 8, p. 254, fig., 1944. 



The following species belongs in this genus: Pteropsaron incisum Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 

 23 (1903), pt. 2, p. 647, pi. 87. 1905 (type locallity, Laysan Island, holotype USNM 51621). 



«i Chrionema Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23 (1903), pt. 2, p. 645, pi. 85, 1905 (type species, Chrio 

 nema chryseres Gilbert). 



»3 Chriomystax Ginsburg, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 104, No. 3347, p. C28, 1955 (type species. Chriomys- 

 tax squamentum Ginsburg). 



The following species belongs in this genus: Chrionema squamiceps Gilbert, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 

 vol. 23 (1903), pt. 2, p. 646, pi. 86, 1905 (type locality, Maui; holotype USNM 51635). 



»3 Bembrops Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 74, p. 163, 1876 (type species, Bembrops catidi- 

 macula Steindachner). 

 Hypsicometis Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 3, p. 347, 1880 (type species, Hypsicometis gobioides Goode, 



off Long Island; holotype USNM 26007). 

 Bathypcrcis Alcock, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 62, No. 2, p. 177, pi. 9, fig. 1, 1893 (type species. Bothy- 

 percis plafyrhynchus Alcock). 



The following species also belong to this genus; Bembrops adenensta Norman and B. nematopterus Nor 

 man, in Jolm Murray Expedition 1933-34, Scientific Reports, vol. 7, No. 1, Fishes, pp. 68-70, figs. 24A-C, 

 1939 (type localities. Gulf of Aden and Zanzibar area, respectively. B. magnisquamis Ginsburg, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 104, No. 3347, p. 633, 1955 (type locality, Cuba and Virgin Islands). B. macromma 

 Ginsburg, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 104, No. 3347, p. 634 (type locality, Virgin Islands). B. anatirostris 

 Ginsburg, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 104, No. 3347, p. 635, fig. 120 (type locality, off Mississippi Delta 

 and Gulf of Mexico; Puerto Rico). B. filifer Fowler, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 85, No. 3032, p. 92, fig. 

 42, 1938 (type locality, Philippines; holotype USNM 98866, and many paratype lots). B. filamentosa 

 Norman, John Murray Expedition, 1933-34, Scientific Reports, vol. 7, No. 1, Fishes, p. 70, 1939 (new name 

 for Bembrops filifer Fowler, preoccupied). B. phiUppinus Fowler, Not. Naturae Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila- 

 delphia, No. 1, p. 2, 1939 (new name for Bembrops filifer Fowler), 



