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0th dorsal ypines 3i in head, the last spine half as lon^ as eye; first 

 soft ra3^a8 high as highest spine. Caudal weakly concave, li in head; 

 second anal spine strong, longer than third and weakly curved, longer 

 than the highest dorsal spine. Ventrals not reaching vent. Pectoral 

 with 6 or 7 lower rays simple but not thickened, the fin reaching 4th 

 soft ray of anal. Bases of fin rays scaly. 



Color golden brown, with a faint spot of golden yellow in the center 

 of each scale along the sides (Steindachner). 



This species is known from a single specimen, 1.5 cm. in length, in 

 the museum at Milan. We have not seen it. 



2. CIRRHITUS Lacepede. 



Cirr/W/HS Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, p. 3 [maculatus—marmoratus). 

 arrJtites Cuvier and V.vlenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IIT, p. 1829 (change in 



spelliny;) . 

 CirrhidchUnis (;f.NTHEK, Cat., II, 1860, p. 73, in part. 



Scales large, cycloid; head obtuse, rounded in profile; snout short; 

 cheeks with small scales, teeth on vomer and palatines; jaws with small 

 canines; preopercle finely serrate; opercle with a fiat spine; dorsal rays 

 about X, 11, anal III, 6; caudal truncate, anterior nostrils fringed; 

 dorsal spines not fringed. Tropical Pacific. 



{cirrus, a lock of hair. ) 



2. CIRRHITUS MARMORATUS (Lacepede). 



Labrus marmoratm Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1801, p. 492, pi. v, fig. 3 

 (no locality given). 



CirrJdius marmoratus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, p. 107 (Hawaii n 

 Islands) .—Jordan and Evermann, Fishes of Hawaiian Islands, 1905, p. 452, 

 pi. Lxx (Hawaii).— Jordan and Seale, Fishes of Samoa, p. 278 (Samoa).— 

 Jordan and Starks, Proc. U. S. Nat. IMus., 1906, p. 699 (Yaku Island). 



Cirrhites mnrmorntns Bleeker, Verh. Koninkl. Ak. Wet., XV, 1875, p. 3; 

 (Sumatra; Amboyna).— Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 

 (Sept. 23, 1903), p. 491 (Honolulu).— Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., 

 XXII, 1902 (Jan. 19, 1904), p. 527 (Honolulu; Puako Bay, Hawaii). 



Oirrhitus maculatus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, p. 3 ( no locality given ).— 

 GtJNTHER, Fische der Siidsee, III, 1874, p. 71, pi. Li, fig. A (Hawaiian 

 Islands, Society Islands, Cook Island). 



Cirrhitichthys maculatus GtJNTHER, Cat. II, 1860, p. 74 (Polynesia, India, Hawaiian 

 Islands, He de France).— Klunzinger, Fische des rothen Meeres, p. 131, in 

 Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, XX, 1870, p. 798 (East coast of Africa, Polyne- 

 sia).— GtJNTHER, Shore Fishes, Chalk, I, 1880, p. 59 (Honolulu). 



Cirrhites {Cirrhitichtliiis) maculatus Steindachner, Denks. Ak. Wiss. Wien, LXX, 

 1900, p. 490 (Honolulu: Laysan) . 



Cirrhites maculosus Bennett, Zool. Journ., IV, 1829, p. 38 (Sandwich Islands).— 

 RtJpPELL, Atlas, Fische, 1828, p. 13, pi. xv, fig. 1 (Red Sea) . 



arrhites alternatus Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, p. 122 (Hawaiian 

 Islands, young). 



