N0.1266. LABROID FISHES OF JAPAN— JORDAN AND SXYDER. 653 
headlands in Japan. Our specimens, six in number, are from Waka- 
noura. The ver}^ long ventrals at once distinguish it from all other 
Japanese labroids. 
(Named for Prof. C. J. Temminck, of Leyden.) 
23. CHEILINUS Lacepede. 
CJieilinus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1802, p. 529 (irUobatus). 
Urichthys SwAiNSoa, Nat. Hist. Fishes, II, 1839, p. 224 {lunulatus). 
Crassilabrus Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fishes, II, 1839, p. 225 {undulatus). 
r/ialliurus SwAiNSox, Nat. Hist. Fishes, II, 1839, p. 2.30 {blochi-chlorurus) . 
Oxijcheilinus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, p. 143 {areniUiis) . 
Body oblong-, compressed, covered with large scales, 20 to 2.5 in 
lateral line; lateral line interrupted; cheeks with two series of large 
scales; opercles scaly; preopercle entire; teeth in one series, two 
canines in front of each jaw, not bent backward nor outward; no 
posterior canine; lower jaw not produced backward; lips thick; dorsal 
spines subequal. Dorsal IX, 10 (rarely X, 9); anal III, 8. Fishes of 
Polynesia and the East Indies, usually brightly colored, the shades 
chietly red and green, 
(^f?Aocr, lip.) 
41. CHEILINUS OXYRHYNCHUS Bleeker. 
MOCHINOUWO (RICE-BALL- FISH). 
CheiUnus oxyrlujnchux Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., 1862, p. 73, pi. xxviii, tig. 2; 
Celebes, Amboyna, Batjan. — GtixxHER, Cat. Fish., IV, 1862, p. 133; East 
Indies. 
Cheilinus sp.. No. 514 {MocJiinonico) Isiiikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 29; Riukiu 
Archipelago. 
Head 1| in length; depth 3|; depth of caudal peduncle 7; eye 5 in 
head; interorbital space 5i; snout 2|; D. IX, 10; A. Ill, 8; scales in 
lateral series 20; between lateral line and insertion of dorsal 2; be- 
tween lateral line and insertion of anal 6; 2 rows on cheek. 
Body compressed, caudal peduncle deep; head large, pointed; contour 
from snout to dorsal almost straight; snout large, mouth wide; lower 
jaw slightly projecting, lips thick, maxillary broad and heavy. Teeth 
in a single row, large, obtusel}' pointed, 2 strong, straight, widely 
separated canines in each jaw, 2 or 3 rudimentary canines between the 
upper pair, no posterior canines. Edge of preopercle serrate. Gill- 
rakers on first arch 5+8, long, compressed, pointed, widely spaced. 
Scales of body large, not reduced in size on nape and breast; a narrow 
basal shield of pointed scales on base of caudal enlarged; imbricate 
scales on opercle. Lateral line interrupted, extending in a straight 
line to a point below end of base of caudal, beginning again on the 
second row of scales below, 3 scales in advance of where it ended, and 
extending along middle of caudal peduncle. Dorsal spines i-ather 
strong, growing larger posteriorly, the longest 3| in head, longest ray 
3 in head. First anal spine large, close to the second, the third longest, 
