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tions of olive, brownish-and pearly blue; middle of side with a narrow dark streak which breaks up 
posteriorly into a row of blackish spots; dorsal light orange, the color forming reticulations around 
pearly spots; anal similar; caudal dirty, olive-gray; with a paler cross shade; pectoral and ventrals 
colorless. 
Three smaller examples (Nos. 03245, 03246, and 03247) have the ground color light olivaceous 
orange rather than greenish, a dark lateral band much more distinct and traceable across eye to tip 
of snout; dorsal plain translucent without trace of spots or reticulations ; .caudal dull green, the dark 
lateral band forming a dark mesial shade to its tip; anal and pectoral colorless; vent and anal spine 
light blue; ventrals light blue, lower ray of pectoral blue; No. 03244 has a brown spot at axil, the 
others reddish spots Another (No. 03348) bright golden; snout orange; lateral stripe black, more or 
less distinct; fins plain golden; a few pearly blue spots on scales of lower parts. 
Example No. 03039 had a large black blotch on each side when fresh, and one taken at Honolulu 
July 19, 1900, when fresh was bright lemon-yellow over whole of body and fins, with the usual row 
of black spots. 
Color in alcohol, uniform brown above, abdomen whitish; blackish blotch above tip of pectoral, 
with several white scales; fins pale brown, dorsal and anal with pale oblique crossbars, caudal with 
brown spots on membrane. 
This species is subject to great variation in shade of color. It is common in the markets at Hilo 
and Honolulu. Our collections contain 62 specimens from Honolulu (12 collected by Dr. Jenkins 
and 1 by the Albatross in 1896) and 4 from Hilo. These are 1.8 to 16.5 inches long. Common at 
Samoa. 
Labrus inermis Forskal, Descript. Animal., 34, 1775, Red Sea. 
Labrus hcissek LacCpede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 513, 1801; after Forskal, Arabian Sea. 
Cheilio auratus Laeepude, op. eit., IV, 433, 1802, lie de France; Quoy & Gaimard, Voyage de l’Uranie, Zool., 274, pi. LIV, 
fig. 2, 1824 (Maui; Hawaii); Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XIII, 1837, 341 (lie de France). 
Cheilio fuscus Lacepede, op. eit., IV, 433, 1802, He de France; Cuvier & Valenciennes, XIII, 1839, 349 (same type). 
Labrus fusiformis Ruppell, Neue Wirbelthiere, Fische, 7, pi. 1, fig. 4, 1838, Djidda, Massuak. 
Ilemiulis auratus , Swainson, Class. Fish., II, 228, 1839. 
Eupemis fusiformis, Swainson, op. eit., II, 232, 1839. 
Cheilio cyanochlcrris Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XIII, 346, 1839, lie de France. 
Cheilio forskalii Cuvier & Valenciennes, op. cit., XIII, 349, 1839, Red Sea. 
Cheilio hcmichrysos Cuvier & Valenciennes, op. cit., XllI, 351, 1839, Sandwich Islands. 
Cheilio viridis Cuvier & Valenciennes, op. cit., XIII, 352, 1839, Vanicolo. 
Cheilio microstoma Cuvier & Valenciennes, op. cit., XIII, 353, 1839, India. 
Cheilio ramosus Jenyns, Voyage Beagle, Fish., 102, 1842, Japan. 
Cheilio inermis, Richardson, Iehthy. China, 258, 1846 (Canton); Bleeker, Atlas, I. 82, 1862, pi. 31, fig 4 (Java, Bawain, 
Sumatra, Celebes, Tonga, Termite, Amboyna, Banda, Ceram, Goram, Buro, Timor, Lelti); Gunther, Cat., IV, 194, 
1862 (Mozambique, Macassar, Amboyna, Philippines, Aneityum); Klunzinger, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, XXI, 
1871, 530 (Red Sea); Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 7, 65, 1877 (Honolulu) ; Day, Fish. India, 407, pi. 88, fig. 4 , 1877 
(Malay Archipelago); Fowler, Proe. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 511 (Sandwich Islands); Steindachner, Denks. Ak. 
Wiss. Wien, LXX, 1900, 507 (Honolulu); Jordan & Evermann, Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXV, 1903, 355 (Formosa); 
Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 462 (Honolulu); Snyder, op. eit. (Jan. 19, 1904), 528 
(Honolulu). 
Cheilio auratus, Peters, Monatsb. Ak. Wiss., Berlin, 1855, 453. 
Cheilio bicolor Bianconi, Mem. Ac. Soc. Bologn., VIII, 1859, 46, pi. 25. 
Genus 160. CIRRHILABRUS Schlegel. 
Body compressed, oblong, covered with large scales, 20 to 25 in the lateral line; lateral liae 
interrupted; forehead not elevated nor trenchant; cheeks and opercles with imbricated scales; preo- 
percle serrated; teeth in one series, with canines anteriorly; no posterior canine; D. xi, 9; A. in 9; 
ventrals much produced ( Cirrhilabrus ), or short ( Cheilinoides ). 
Cirrhilabrus Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 167, 1845 (temmincki). 
Cheilinoides Bleeker, Natuurk. Nederl. Ind., II, 71, 1851 ( cyanoplcura ). 
251. Cirrhilabrus jordani Snyder. Plate 42, fig. 1. 
Head measured to end of opercular flap 2.8 in length; depth 3.45; depth of caudal peduncle 7; 
length of snout 3.1 in head; eye 4; interorbital space 4.3; D. xi, 8; A. in, 8; scales in lateral line 
16-J-8; between lateral line and dorsal 1; between lateral line and anterior part of anal 5. 
