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deeply forked and each lobe ending in sharp slender point; pectoral 
224, rays 9, V; least depth of caudal peduncle 3 in total head length ; 
ventral 17, rays I, 5. 
Color in alcohol brown, becoming whitish on under surfaces. Six 
large, irregular blackish brown blotches on back and below fourth 
two dark vertical bands. Two dark blotches on trunk along lateral 
line. Row of five or six dark blotches along side of tail. Blackish 
iransverse band at caudal base and another at pectoral base. Small 
dark spot on opercle above. Black on first three membranes of spinous 
dorsal terminally. Fins otherwise pale or light brown. 
Differs from Cyprinocirrhites ui Tanaka ° in the larger eye, shorter 
maxillary, large subterminal black blotch on second and third mem- 
branes of first dorsal, tip of snout on level with lower edge of pupil, 
lower edge of preopercle entire, fins all more or less scaly basally, 
long pectoral reaching over halfway to caudal base and a dark bar on 
caudal and pectoral bases. Quite likely the imperfectly described 
and figured Cirrhitichthys polyactis Bleeker * may belong in Cyprino- 
cirrhites as it has D. X, 16 or 17 and the caudal ends in a filament 
above and another below. Although its scalation is unknown it differs 
in proportions, smaller eye, larger maxillary, smaller pectoral and 
different fins. 
Type—U.S.N.M. No. 99505. D. 5640. Labuan Blanda Island, 
N. 88° E., 1 mile (lat. 4°27’00” S., long. 122°55’40’’ E.), Buton Strait, 
Dutch East Indies. In 24 fathoms. December 13, 1909. No. 22920. 
Length 62 mm. 
(criyua, blotch.) 
Family SCORPAENIDAE 
Subfamily SCORPAENINAE 
Genus SCORPAENA Linnaeus 
SCORPAENA TAENIOPHRYS, new species 
Figure 12 
Depth 214; head 21%, width 114. Snout very broad, depressed, 
front end level with lower eye edge, length 414 in head measured 
from snout tip; eye 334, greater than snout or interorbital, close 
to but not entering upper profile of head; maxillary reaches below 
hind eye edge, expansion 17% in eye, length 2 in head from snout 
tip; mouth little inclined from horizontal, lower jaw slightly pro- 
Sf Zool. Mag. Tokyo, vol. 29, No. 347, p. 268, 1917 (type locality : Tanabe, Province of 
Kii) ; Figures and descriptions of the fishes of Japan, ed. 2, p. 507, pl. 187, fig. 384, 1935 
(type). ie 
7 Nat. Verh. Kon. Akad, Wetens. Amsterdam (Cirrhit.), vol. 15, p. 16, 1875 (type locality : 
Amboina) ; Atlas ichthyologique des Indes orientales Néerlandaises, vol. 8, p. 147, pl. 76 
fig. 1, 1876-77 (type). : 
