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short distance; nape, interorbital, snout, maxillaries, lower jaw, chin, 

 and gill membranes naked; the maxillary extends to under the middle 

 of the pupil ; the anterior nostril posteriorly has a flap of skin with 

 about five cirri on it ; behind the tips of each dorsal spine is a group 

 of five or six cirri, except the tenth spine, which has only one or two 

 cirri. 



Color in alcohol : Body brownish with four or five irregularly ver- 

 tical rows of pale blotches, one above lateral line and three or four 

 below ; head paler below, dark brownish above with numerous length- 

 wise, wavy, reddish-brown lines'; caudal peduncle anteriorly with a 

 large black spot, bordered by a pale circle ; wavy lines of head con- 

 tinue on base of pectoral; lower jaw crossed with about six of the 

 wavy brown lines, the anterior three or four extending to eye and on 

 snout ; basal two-thirds of anal fin dusky anteriorly. 



Remarks. — Amblycirrhitus Mibhardi differs from other cirrhitids 

 in the color pattern, combining white blotches on a dark background 

 with a large black ocellated spot on the caudal peduncle. 



Although CirThitichthys fasciatus (Bennett) (=/'. cinctus) has X, 

 14 dorsal rays and a color pattern that resembles this new species in 

 some respects, the two differ generically, since G. fa^ciatiis has scaly 

 gill membranes and A. hubhardi naked gill membranes. 



Named huhhardi in appreciation of the cooperation rendered by Dr. 

 H. D. Hubbard, Comdr. (M. C.) U. S. N., while we were on the U. S. S. 

 Bushnell in the South Pacific. 



Genus PARACIRRHITES Bleeker 



Paracirrhites Bleeker, Poissons de Madagascar et de I'lle de la Reunion . . ., 



p. 93, 1875. (Type, Cirrhiteft forsteri Bloch.) 

 Cirrhitoidea Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 22 (1902), p. 489, 1903. 



(Type, Cirrhitoidea himacula Jenkins.) 



PARACIRRHITES BIMACULA (Jenkins) 



Cirrhitoidea himacula Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Coram., vol. 22 (1902), p. 488, 

 fig. 36, 1903. 



115753, Rose Island, reef, June 11-14, 1939, 2 specimens. 



Genus CIRRHITICHTHYS Bleeker 



CiiThitichthys Bleekb^?, Act. Soe. Sci. Iiido-Neerl., vol. 2, p. 39, 1857. [Type, 

 Cirrhites graphidopteriis Bleeker (^Cirrhitea aprinus Cuvier and Valen- 

 ciennes).] 



Paracirrhites Steindachner and Dodeklein, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 

 48, p. 25, 1883. (Type, Paracirrhites japonicus Steindachner and Doder- 

 lein. ) 



Cirrhitopsis Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1862, pp. 105, 109. (Type, 

 Cirrhites aureus Temminck and Schlegel. ) 



Isobuna Jordan. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 33, p. 1.58. 1907. [Type. Isobuna 

 japovica (Steindachner and Doderlein), replaces Paracirrhites Steindachner 

 and Doderlein, preoccupied.] 



