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limb next to angle elongate, the others short; pectoral fm 2.0 to 2.0 in 

 head and 1.2 to 2.4 in postorbital length of head; pungent opercular 

 spine embedded in the flesh of operculum. 



Color in alcohol. — Coloration plain pale, no pigment cells evident 

 externally on head or body. Peritoneum silvery with numerous 

 crowded blackish pigment cells. 



Ecology. — The specimens were taken from holothurians. 



Remarks.— Am.ong the differences observed between the specimens of 

 C. homei and C. mourlani, the most outstanding is the complete lack of 

 external pigment in the former, whereas the latter is marked with 

 numerous large pigment cells. Other differences (those for homei 

 given first) are: Pectoral fin 2.0 to 2.2 instead of 2.5 to 2.7 in head, 

 and 1.2 to 1.4 instead of 1.5 to 1.8 in postorbital length of head; eye in 

 postorbital length of head 2.2 to 2.6 instead of 3.0 to 3.5. These data 

 were from specimens of comparable lengths. In addition homei ap- 

 pears to live in holothurians and mourlani in the armless starfish 

 Culcita. 



Bleeker's original description did not give the host for brandesei but 

 later, when lumbricoides was named brandesii, this pearlfish was men- 

 tioned by Bleeker as occurring in Culcita. However, his original 

 figure of brandesii shows the large eye of homei and I follow previous 

 authors in referring it to the synonymy of homei. The present state of 

 knowledge is too much confused in regard to the identifications of the 

 species of Carapus to permit any conclusion on the validit}^ of the nu- 

 merous species already named in the Indo-Pacific. 



The illustration for this species is of the Philippine specimen listed. 



Suborder Schindleriina 

 Family SCHINDLERIIDAE 



By Leonard P. Schultz 



Genus SCHINDLERIA Giltay 



Schindleria Giltay, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Belgique, vol. 10, No. 13, p. 8, 1934 

 (type species, Hemirhamphus praematurus Scbindler). 

 SCHINDLERIA PRAEMATURUS (Schindler) 



Plate 121,A 



Hemirhamphus praemalurus Schindler, Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, No. 9, p. 79, 1930 

 (type locality, Pear and Hermes Reef, Hawaiian Islands). 

 SPECIMEN STUDIED 



Bikini Atoll: Bikini lagoon, light at night, S-46-112, April 24, 1946, 1 specimen, 

 9 , 15.5 ram. in standard length. 



Description. — With difficulty it has been determined that this speci- 

 men has 19 dorsal, 11 anal and 16 pectoral rays. 



