72 ClRKniTlDiE. 



emarginate. The subopereulum is elongated, with the posterior 

 extremity produced beyond the operculum. The prgeorbital broad, 

 rhomboid. Tlic space between the orbits is rather narrow and flat. 

 The occipital crest well developed, triangular ; the lateral crests are 

 scarcely visible. The bones of the humeral arch are rather strong, 

 and both the coracoid bones are joined together by a long horizontal 

 suture. The lower extremity of the radius is provided with several 

 peculiar processes. The pubic bones are rather elongate and narrow ; 

 each of them is formed by thi-ee lamella of nearly equal development. 

 There arc ten abdominal and sixteen caudal veriebrte, the length 

 of the former portion of the vertebral column being to that of the 

 caudal as 1:1-5. The neural and haemal spines are of moderate 

 length and strength ; each of the intemeurals is dilated. The first 

 interhiemal is very strong, and evidently formed by two ; it has two 

 ridges on each side, and a low one anteriorly. 



2. Cirrhites ptmctatus. 

 Cuv. Sf Val. iii. p. 70. 



D. -. A. -1. L. lat. 42. L. transv. 5/10. 



11 ' 



Head and trunk marbled with brown, and with scattered black 

 points. Seven simple pectoral rays. The pectoral reaches to the 

 origin of the anal fin. 



Indian Ocean? 



a. Adult: stufi"ed. Sine patria. 



3. Cirrhites «.rcatus. 



Valent. iii. p. 497. fig. 470 ; Remircl, i. 18. 102. 



Cii-rhites arcatus, (Parkins.) Cuv. Sf Vol. iii. p. 74; Richards. Toy. 



Sainar. Fishes, p. 26. pi. 5. f. 3-5 ; Less. Voi/. Coq. Zool. ii. p. 227 ; 



Cuv. Eigne Anim. El. Poise, pi. 10. f. 2 ; Meek. Act. Soc. Nederl. i. 



3Ianado en 3Iacassar, p. 4 1. 

 Cirrhites vittatus, ( Valenc.) Cuv. Rhgne Anim. III. Poiss. p. 39. 



D. ^. A. |. L. lat. 50. L. transv. ^. Caec. pylor. 4. 



Vert. 10/16. 



Seven simple pectoral rays ; the first dorsal ray elongate. A white 



band above the lateral line from the middle of the body to the upper 



half of the caudal ; a whitish semicircular line behind the orbit, 



edged with brown. 



From the Mamitius to the Pacific. 



a. Adult. Maui-itius. From the Haslar Collection. 



b. Adult : skeleton. Presented by Su- J. Richardson. 



Skeleton. — The skeleton is very similar to that of C. forsteri; 

 it differs, however, by the occipital crest, which, instead of being 

 triangular, is semilimate. The first interhsemal has a longituchnal 

 groove anteriorly. 



