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brown band from below gill-opening forward along lower angle of head to below eye, then across 
throat continuous with corresponding band of opposite side. Known only from one specimen, 21 
inches long, obtained by me at Honolulu. Type, No. 50854, U. S. N. M. 
215. Diodon hystrix Linnaeus. 
One large specimen, 25 inches in length, was obtained fresh, and one smaller specimen was obtained 
by the Albatross in 1896. It is not very common at Honolulu where the natives use it as food, but 
regard it as poisonous unless receiving certain treatment in cooking. 
Diodon hystrix Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 335, 1758, India; Gunther, Cat., vm, 300, 1870. 
Family XLVII1. CIRRHITIIKF. 
216. Cheilodactylus vittatus Garrett. “ Kikakapu.” 
This interesting form was described by Garrett in 1868 from a single specimen which now seems 
to be lost. A copy of Garrett’s painting is given in Gunther’s Fische der Siidsee. The species had 
not been seen again until a single specimen was taken by Professor Schauinsland in 1897, and recorded 
by Steindachner. The specimen here recorded was collected by Hr. Rosenstern and presented to the 
California Academy of Sciences. It agrees fairly well with Garrett’s figure reproduced in Fische der 
Siidsee. 
Head 3 in length; depth 2.6; eye 3.2; D. xvii, 29; A. in, 7; lateral line 1.63; maxillary not reach- 
ing anterior margin of eye; no teeth on vomer or palatines; bands of villiform teeth on jaws; opercle 
and preoperele entire, the angle of opercle ending in a weak, flat sjiine; dorsal outline rising abruptly 
from interorbital space to base of fourth dorsal spine, to a height about three-fifths the length of head 
above the eye. Since the fourth dorsal spine is very high, about equaling length of head, when the 
fin is raised the fish has a peculiarly deformed appearance. Length of specimen, 5 inches. 
The alcoholic specimen shows 4 black bars across the head, the most anterior a small black area 
over the anterior end of snout, the second not complete, passing over forehead along anterior margin 
of eye on the cheek, ending near angle of preoperele; third across head, running obliquely backward 
through posterior portion of eye and ending just below middle of opercle, the black at base of pectoral 
and in axil in line with this as if an extension of it; two broad bands on body slightly broader than 
eye, the first including the first 3 dorsal spines and base of fourth and running obliquely backward, 
ending on belly just behind origin of pectoral; the second beginning at tips of fourth, fifth, and sixth, 
reaching body at base of ninth spine, running along dorsal side of body covering remainder of dorsal 
spines except tips, coming to lie almost wholly on body below soft dorsal, just including bases of its 
rays, the band covering caudal peduncle except a narrow space on ventral side and extending on lower 
lobe of caudal; pectoral black. The parts of the body and fins not included in the bands described 
are white in alcohol. 
Cheilodactylus vittatus Garrett, Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci. 18C3, 103, Hawaiian Islands; Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, 73, taf. i.i, fig. 
B, 1873 (Sandwich Islands, Garrett, one specimen); Steindachner, Dents. Ak. Wiss. Wien, i.xx, 190, 1900 (Honolulu). 
CIRRHITOIDEA Jenkins, new genus. 
Cirrhitoidea Jenkins, new genus of Cirrhitidx {bimacula). 
No palatine teeth; teeth on vomer; jaws with narrow band of small canine-like teeth; intermax- 
illary denticulate; preoperele finely toothed; dorsal single of 10 spines and 12 rays; the 5 lower rays of 
pectoral simple, the upper of which is elongate, 1.8 in head; snout long, pointed, 3 in head. 
This genus is allied to Oxycirrhiles Bleeker, from which it differs chiefly in the shorter snout. 
217. Cirrhitoidea bimacula Jenkins, new species. 
Head 2.6 in length; depth 3; eye 4.6 in head; snout 3.8; maxillary 2.7; D. x, 12; A. in, 6; scales 
3-37-7. Body short, deep and compressed, the dorsal profile strongly arched from tip of snout to base 
of first dorsal spines; back very narrow, trenchant, ventral outline nearly straight; head rather long, 
pointed; snout long and pointed; mouth moderate, slightly oblique, the jaws equal; maxillary reachin 
pupil; jaws with small, close-set, canine-like teeth, small teeth on vomer, none on palatines; preopercl 
serrate; opercle ending in a long flap; fins rather large; dorsal spines slender, weak, their length equal 
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