﻿NEW FISHES OF GENUS CIRRHITUS — SCHULTZ 551 



fore and aft; pectoral, anal, and caudal fins barred; head and body 

 peppered with numerous scattered, tiny, dark-brown or blackisli 

 specks. 



Remarks. — G. nigro'pwnctatus is distinct from pinulatus because of 

 its color pattern of minute dark-brown specks on a light-brown and 

 barred background coloration; also the orbital ridges are more promi- 

 nent. This new species may be separated from all others in the genus 

 by means of the accompanying key. 



CIRRHITUS SPILOTOCEPS, new species 



Plate 13, C 



GirrJtitus maculosus (Lacepede) Ruppell, Atlas zu der Reisc im nordlichen 

 Afrika, Fische des rothen Meers, p. 13, pi. 4, fig. 1, 1828 (Red Sea) (substi- 

 tute spelling for Cirrhitus maculatus Lacepede, but not same species as 

 Cirrhitns maculatus Lacepede). 



Holotype.—U.S.'NM. No. 47598, Ked Sea, L. M. McCormick. 



Paratype.—U.S.^M. No. 149583, Red Sea, L. M. McCormick. 



Description. — The following counts are recorded first for the holo- 

 type, then for the paratype: Dorsal rays X, 11; X, 10; anal III, 6; 

 III, 6 ; pectoral i, 6, vii-i, 6, vii ; i, 6, vii-1, 6, vii ; pelvics I, 5 ; I, 5 ; 

 branched caudal fin 7+ 6 ; 7+ 6 ; vertical scale rows crossing lateral line 

 42 ; 42 ; scales from dorsal origin to lateral line 5 ; 5 ; and from anal 

 origin to lateral line 9; 9; gill rakers 6+1 + 13; 6+1 + 12; scale rows 

 in front of dorsal origin 7 ; 7. 



Certain measurements were made on the types, and these data, ex- 

 pressed in thousandths of the standard length, are recorded in table 1. 



Greatest depth 2.9 ; head 2.7 ; length of longest branched pectoral 

 ray 5.2 to 5.3 ; longest lower simple pectoral ray 4.3 to 4.5 ; all in the 

 standard length. Snout 2.8 to 3.0 ; eye 5.2 to 5.4 ; tip of snout to rear 

 of maxillary 2.3; greatest depth 1.1; least depth of caudal peduncle 

 3.0 to 3.2; postorbital length of head 1.9; bony interorbital space 6.9 

 to 7.0; least suborbital width (bony) 5.8; all in the length of the 

 head. Least depth of caudal peduncle in its length 1.7 to 1.8. Bony 

 interorbital space 1.3 to 1.4 in eye. 



Greatest depth opposite front of spiny dorsal base; head blunt, 

 profile of snout steep; interorbital space concave, orbital ridge low; 

 gill membranes broadly joined across isthmus, free, with numerous 

 fine embedded scales; maxillary concealed by preorbital anteriorly; 

 lips thick, broad; lower jaw a little shorter than upper; mouth a little 

 oblique; cheeks with very fine, embedded scales; nostrils separated by 

 a dermal isthmus, rear margin of anterior one with a tuft of dermal 

 cirri ; posterior tips of dorsal spines each with a tuft of dermal cirri ; 

 no pelvic accessory scale; scales cycloid ; vomer with a triangular patch 

 of villif orm teeth ; palatines with a few tiny teeth anteriorly in a small 



