FISHES OF THE PHOENIX AXD SAMOAN ISLANDS 



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of color but iievcM- uaiforinly blnck jjpotted: pocroriil I'm plain without 

 spots. 



3a. Tentacle over eye simple, rarely bifid; anterior half of body pale, pos- 

 teriorly brownish, this pale area with a few scattered blackish spots 

 on body and head, some with pale centers, on other specimens black 

 spots lacking, blackish area posteriorly usually pale spotted, these pale 

 spots occurring on soft dorsal and anal fins ; when blackisli color ex- 

 tends as far forward as head pale spots occur there also, sometimes 

 arranged in irregular rows, longitudinally ; middle of lower lip smooth 

 crenulate, only tlie sides of lower lip convoluted ; upper lip crenulate ; 

 no barbels on chin; dorsal rays 15 (rarely 14); anal rays 18 (rarely 

 17) ; about 28 to 43 cirri in the fringe across nape ; canines pre.sent ; 

 first two anal rays swollen and convoluted. 



Cirripectes jenningsi, new species 



3&. Tentacles over eye two to five (rarely one to five), these arising from 

 a common base ; no pale spots in posterior half of body ; first dorsal 

 spine of male longer than second [Cirripectes fllamcntosus (Alleyne 

 and Macleay)], first dorsal spine of female as long as second, seldom 

 shorter; anterior distal one-third to two-thirds of spiny dorsal white; 

 abruptly darker basally ; body and fins plain brownish to blackish (pur- 

 plish in life), often paler anteriorly, and often with paler blotches on 

 head, especially on lower sides and throat ; body sometimes with about 

 13 transverse bars; lower half of caudal fin darker than upper half; 

 dorsal rays XII (rarely XIII), 14 or 15; anal 17 to 19; about 30 to 40 

 cirri in fringe across nape Cirripectes variolosus (Valenciennes) 



Table 31. — Counts made on various species of Cirripectes 



CIRRIPECTES LEOPARDUS (Day) 

 Salarias leopardus Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. London. 1869, p. 518. 



115703, Rose Island, reef, June 11-14, 1939, a 73-mm. female specimen. 



CIRRIPECTES BREVIS (Kner) 



Salarias hrevis Knee, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wlen, vol. 58, pt. 1. pp. 29, 334, pi. 

 10, fig. IS, 1868. 



115498, Enderbury Island, reef. May 15-19, 1939, 5 specimens, 1 male, 4 

 females. 



115497, Tutuila Island, Fagasa Bay, rock pools, June 5, 1939, 1 female. 



