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369. Cheilodactylus vittatus Garrett. “Kikakapu.” Plate 54. 
Head 3 in length; depth 2.6; eye 3.2 in head; D. xviii, 29; A. hi, 7; scales 11-63-12. 
Body greatly compressed, anteriorly greatly elevated, the profile rising nearly vertically from 
posterior line of orbit to origin of dorsal fin, from which point it descends in a long low curve but 
slightly convex; nape trenchant; head moderate; snout not produced; mouth small, little oblique; 
maxillary scarcely reaching orbit; lower jaw short, included; preopercle entire; eye moderate or large, 
entering anterior profile; nostrils round, close to eye, the anterior with a small, branched filament; 
fins well developed; origin of dorsal over posterior edge of orbit, its base covering nearly entire length 
of body; first dorsal spine very short, second somewhat longer, third very long, nearly equaling head; 
fourth and fifth dorsal spines both a little shorter than third, about 1.4 in head, the other spines 
progressively shorter; edge of soft dorsal nearly straight, the rays about equal in length, a little greater 
than snout or about equal to last dorsal spine; caudal deeply forked, the lobes pointed; anal spines 
short, the anterior spines produced somewhat, equal to snout and eye; ventrals reaching past vent 
their length 1.6 in head; pectoral long, the lower rays produced, nearly equaling head; scales rather 
small, firm and smooth; head densely covered with much smaller scales; scales of breast very small. 
Color in life, according to Garrett, grayish silvery, ornamented with 5 oblique blackish brown 
bands disclosed as follows: one from shout to margin of preopercle; the second from eye across cheek 
to base of pectoral fin, which it involves; the third, which passes over the occipital region, extending 
downward and backward to axil of pectoral; the fourth and broadest from origin of dorsal downward 
and backward, widening in its descent and passing beneath the abdomen under the ventral fins; a 
fifth beginning at the tip of fourth dorsal spine, passing downward and backward, reaching back at 
base of seventh spine, and continuing chiefly on side to caudal peduncle, partly crossing lateral line 
under about twelfth dorsal ray; within this dorsal band are 3 irregular pale or whitish spots; caudal 
peduncle with a large blackish spot near the middle and 2 smaller ones at base of caudal fin; oper- 
cular flap and snout tinged with orange red; interorbital with 2 transverse brownish red bands; dorsal 
fin anterior to fifth black band, white; soft portion of dorsal, caudal and anal light yellowish, the 
caudal lobes tipped with blackish brown; pectoral orange-red; ventrals deep blackish brown; iris 
yellowish silvery. In alcohol the general pattern of coloration holds. 
The above description is based upon a specimen about 6 inches long, taken at Honolulu some 
years ago by Doctor Rosenstern, of San Francisco, and now in the California Academy of Sciences. 
The species is an extremely rare one. It was described originally from Honolulu, by Garrett, 
his type being a specimen 7 inches long, the present location of which is unknown. It is probably not 
in existence. The description and colored plate in Gunther’s Fische der Siidsee were based upon 
Garrett’s description and sketch. A second example, 8 inches long, was obtained by Professor Schau- 
insland at Honolulu in 1896, and described by Doctor Steindachner. Recently we have received from 
Mi\ Berndt, at Honolulu, 2 other examples much larger than either of those previously known. They 
measure 6.9 and 9.7 inches, and with the specimen in the California Academy of Sciences and the 
one in the Museum at Vienna seem, therefore, to be the only known examples, and are probably the 
only representatives of the species extant. 
Cheilodactylus vittatus Garrett, Proc. Cal. Ac. Nat. Sci., Ill, 1864 (January 4), 103, Hawaiian Islands; Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish 
Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 489 (Honolulu; coll. Dr. Rosenstern). 
Cheilodactylus vittatus, Gunther, Fische der Sttdsee, III, 73, pi. 51. fig. B, 1874 (Sandwich Islands) ; Steindachner, Denks. Ak, 
Wiss. Wien, LXX, 1900, 490 (Honolulu). 
Genus 204. CIRRHITOIDEA Jenkins. 
No palatine teeth; teeth on vomer; jaws with narrow band of small canine-like teeth; intermaxil- 
lary denticulate; preopercle finely toothed; dorsal single, of 10 spines and 12 rays; 5 rays of pectoral 
simple, lower rays of pectoral elongate, 1.8 in head; snout sharp, pointed, 3 in head. This genus is 
allied to Oxycirrhites Bleeker, from which it differs chiefly in the shorter snout. 
Cirrhitoidea Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 489 (bimacula). 
