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Genus 162. CHEILINUS Lacepede. 
Body oblong, compressed, covered with large scales, 20 to 25 in lateral line; lateral line interrupted; 
cheek with 2 series of large scales; opercles scaly; preopercle entire; teeth in 1 series, 2 canines in 
front of each jaw, not bent backward nor outward; no posterior canine; lower jaw not produced back- 
ward; lips thick; dorsal spines subequal; D. ix, 10 (rarely x, 9); A. nr, 8. 
Fishes of Polynesia and the East Indies, usually brightly colored, the shades chiefly red and green. 
Cheilinus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poise, III, 529, 1801 ( Irilobatus ). 
UricMhys Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fishes, II, 221,1839 (lumilatus). 
Crassilabrus Swainson, op. cit., 225 ( undulatus ). 
T/iaUiurus Swainson, op. cit., 230 (blochi-chlorurus) . 
Oxycheilinus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1802, 143 (arenatus). 
a. Caudal rounded, upper and middle rays not produced hexagnnatus, p. 319 
an. Caudal with upper and middle rays produced. 
6. Upper caudal ray usually longer than head; head about 3 in length; eye about 5 and snout about 3.25 in 
head. Size small himaculatus, p. 320 
bb. Upper caudal ray shorter than head; head about 2.6 in length; eye about 0 and snout about 2.7 in 
head trilobatus, p. 322 
254. Cheilinus hexagonatus Gunther. “Pooit.” Fig. 136. 
Head 2.4 in length; depth 2.75; eye 6.5 in head; snout 2.4; maxillary 2.6; interorbital 4; I), ix, 
10; A. in, 9; scales 3-24-6. 
Body elongate, oblong, compressed, deepest about ventral lin; head elongate, its depth 1.4 in its 
length; upper profile of head slightly convex to origin of dorsal; snout long pointed, rounded; mouth 
large, oblique; jaws large, strong, lower slightly projecting; teeth in jaws forming sharp cutting edge 
along sides, rather small, sharp pointed, compressed; 2 enlarged sharp canines in front of each jaw 
lower fitting in between upper; eye rather small, anterior; margin of preopercle undulate; interorbital 
space convex; nostril in short tube in front of eye; last dorsal spine 3.75 in head; eighth dorsal rav 3; 
third anal spine longest 3.4; sixth anal ray 2.6; caudal rounded; pectoral short, rounded, 2.25 in head; 
ventral short, rounded, 2.5; scales large, thin, cycloid; lateral line straight above, interrupted below 
last dorsal rays, then beginning low and running straight out on base of caudal. Described from an 
example (No. 04296) from Honolulu. 
Color in life (No. 3506) dull drab above, each scale with .a vertical bar of vermilion red; lower 
surface rosy; markings on head cadmium with a ground-color of dull brownish, neutral tint; dorsal 
with 3 longitudinal bars of cadmium, interspaces dull-greenish blue; anal Venetian red with a faint 
yellow median longitudinal bar, more distinct anteriorly; caudal rays green, membranes yellow, 
narrow posterior border red; pectoral yellowish toward base, pink distally; ventrals rosy, with black 
