NO. 1562. THE CIRRHITOID FISHES OF JAPAN— JORDAN AXI) HERRE. 1(31 



blotch near middle of first and second spines; pectoral and ventral 

 pale rosy. 



This well-known species, abundant among the coral islands through- 

 out the PaciHc, has been once taken in Japan, a specimen having been 

 sent from the offshore island of Yaku in southern Japan. A beauti- 

 ful colored figure by Capt. Charles B. Hudson is given by Jordan and 

 Evermann. Of the closely related genus, Parac'irHiittH Bleeker, dis- 

 . tinguished by absence of palatine teeth, no species has been recorded 

 from Japan. Amhlycirrlutu^i Gill" is probably identical with Para- 

 cirrhitc.s. 



{marmorati()<^ marbled. ) 



3. CIRRHITICHTHYS Bleeker. 



Cirrhitichtliys Bleeker, Naturk. Tydschr. Nederl. Ind., X, 1856, p. 474 (graphi- 



dopteriis=aprinus). 

 Cirrhitop.^li^ GxhL, Proc. Al-. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, p. 109 (aureus). 



Body oblong, the back arched, the profile somewhat concave at the 

 nape on account of the more or less projecting snout; preopercle sharply 

 serrate; preorbital serrulate or entire; no canines; teeth on vomer and 

 palatines; ])ranchiostega]s 0; scales large, slightly ctenoid oi* cycloid; 

 dorsal rays X, 12; anal III, 6 or 7; tirst dorsal ray elongate: dorsal 

 spines moderate; second spine elongate; pectoral with (5 simple rays; 

 first soft ray of dorsal sometimes elongate. 



Species of the tropical Pacific, one of them found in Japan. It dif- 

 fers from Oirrhitns ma.m\y in the more produced snout and notched or 

 incurved profile. 



( C'irrh ites; ix ^ ^ ' s ti s li . ) 



3. CIRRHITICHTHYS AUREUS (Schlegel). 

 OKIGONBE (OFFSHORE SPRITE). 



Cirrhites aureus Schlegel, Fauna Japonifa, PoisH., 1843, p. 15, pi. vii, tig. 2, 



(Nagasaki). — Rich.vrdson, Ichth. China, 1846, p. 289 (Canton). — .Jordan 



and Snvdek, Check List, 1901, p. 85. 

 CirrhUlchthys aureus GIinther, Cat, II, 1860, p. 75 (Canton, China). — Na.miye. 



Class. Cat., 1881, p. 95 (Awa).— Ishikawa and Matsuura, Prel. Cat., 1897, 



p. 52 (Boshu, Kagoshima). 



Ildhiiaf. ^Southern Japan to China (and to India, if Cir/-h/f/'c/ttA//.'<'' 

 hleekerl Day, from Madras, siiould prove to be the same, which is not 

 probable.) 



Head 3 in length to base of caudal; depth 2i; eye -It in head; D. X, 

 12, A. Ill, 6; scales 1-12-9, P. 11, with 6 rays simple. 



«Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, p. 106 (fasciatm). 



'' Cirrhites fasciatus Jerdon, Madras .Toiirnal, 1851, p. 132 (Madras); not of Cuvier 

 and Valenciennes. 



Cirrhitichtliys hleekeri Day, Fishery Rept., CXCI, no. 207. 



Oirrhitichthi/s aureus Day, Fishes India, 1876, p. 145, pi. xxxv, tig. 5, iladras. 

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