a 16 
BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Snout pointed; cleft of mouth 1.3 in eye; 6 rather widely spaced canines in upper jaw; inner 
pair projecting forward; the others, of which the outer pair are much the longer, curve outward 
and backward; 2 small canines in lower jaw; no posterior canines; other teeth very small, sharp, and 
closely apposed; preoperele with a finely serrated margin. Cheeks and opercles with scales; bases 
of dorsal and anal, each with a row of long, pointed scales; 3 large scales covering the greater part of 
basal half of caudal; dorsal and anal fins high; dorsal spines slender, the longest (posterior ones) 
equal in length to twice diameter of eye, each with a fleshy, spine-like prolongation, a continuation 
of the thickened membrane surrounding the spine, extending upward and backward and acting as a 
support for the membrane which extends above spines; first ray equal in height to preceding spine 
and its thickened attachment, the following rays gradually growing shorter; anal spines with thick- 
ened membranous attachments similar to those of dorsal, the rays longer than the spines, their length 
contained about 1.5 times in head; caudal rounded; ventrals sharply pointed, not greatly elongated, 
reaching to vent when depressed; upper rays of pectoral longest. 
Flesh color in alcohol, probably red in life; a pale purple stripe indistinctly outlined extending 
along body between base of dorsal and lateral line; a few small white spots scattered along back above 
lateral line; 3 distinct, narrow, light stripes along side of abdomen. Fins plain, probably yellow in 
life; anal with a narrow dusky band on margin. 
The specimen described is a male, type, No. 50878, U. S. Nat. Mus., from Albatross station 3876, 
between Maui and Lanai; depth 28 to 43 fathoms. 
Other examples, females from the same locality, among them cot.ypes, No. 7728, Stanford Univer- 
sity, have the spinous dorsal lower than the rayed portion of the fin. The thickened portions of the 
membrane are less developed. The anal has no dusky border. 
The following measurements of the type and cotypes are given in hundredths of the length: 
No. 1. 
No. 2. 
No. 3. 
Length from tip of snout to base of caudal, in millimeters 
Length of head, including opercular flap 
Length of longest (11th) dorsal spine 
Length of longest (1st) dorsal ray 
Leng h of longest (3d) anal spine 
Length of longest (4th) anal rav 
Length of caudal fin 
65 
.36 
.16 
.23 
.13 
.25 
.27 
.22 
.23 
XI, 8 
III, 8 
16+8 
56 
.33 
.15 
.2 
.13 
.17 
.26 
.23 
.21 
XI, 8 
III, 9 
15 + 7 
50 
.33 
.15 
.18 
.1 
.2 
.29 
.24 
.2 
XI, 9 
III, 9 
16 + 8 
Length of ventral fin 
Number of dorsal ravs 
Number of anal rays 
Number of scales in lateral line 
This species belongs with Cheilinoid.es Bleeker, a section of the genus Cirrhilabrus, having short 
ventrals. 
Cirrhilabrus jordani Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Jan. 19, 1904), 529, pi. 10, fig. 18, Albatross Station 3876 , 
between Maui and Lanai. 
Genus 161. PSETJDOCHEILINUS Bleeker. 
Body compressed, oblong, covered with large scales; lateral line interrupted; cheek with 2 series 
of large scales; preoperele entire; teeth in a single series; the upper jaw with a pair of very large 
canine teeth bent outward and backward; no posterior canine tooth; lower jaw not produced back- 
ward; 9 dorsal spines, subequal in length; 3 anal spines, the middle one the longest. Eve with the 
cornea peculiarly modified. 
PscudocheiUnus Bleeker, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1861, 409 (Cheilinus hexatxnia). 
a. Body comparatively slender, depth about 3.8 in length; eye 4.5 in head; gape reaching anterior margin o£ orbit. Color 
in life, body dull brick red; belly and base of anal pale purplish; about 7 longitudinal yellowish streaks along 
side evanidus, p. 317 
aa. Body deeper, depth about 3.2 in length; eye larger, 5 in head; gape not reaching anterior margin of orbit. Color in 
life, brownish red, anterior half coppery, the posterior half grayish; side of body with 8 dark longitudinal stripes. 
octotsenia, p. 317 
