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Paracirrhites polystictus (Gunther). “4,1 |. 
Head 2 7/8; depth 3 1/5; D. X, IT, 1; A. III, 6, 1; 
scales 51 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 more large 
ones on latter; 6 scales above lateral line to spinous 
dorsal origin; 5 to soft dorsal origin, and 11 below to 
spinous anal origin; 12 large predorsal scales to occiput; 
snout 3 in head from upper jaw tip; eye 6z; maxillary 23; 
interorbital 6. 
Body rather slender, elongately ovoid, compressed, 
back scarcely elevated forward; least depth of caudel peduncle 
1 1/5 ots length or 2 4/5 in head, Head width 21/10 its 
length. Snout convex, depression in profile before nostrils; 
snout length greater than width. Eye elevated, center about 
first 2/5 in head. Mouth large, jaws strong and lower slightly 
protrudes. Maxillary slightly beyond front eye edge, though 
not to pupil; expansion 11/8 in eye. Teeth as in-P. forsteri, 
eshent drier pair of upper canines largest. Front nostril 
about last fourth in snoutm little smaller than hind one, 
which superior and with cutaneous flap, its edges fringed, 
Interorbital slightly concave. tind preopercle edge with few 
obsolete minute serrae abive its obtuse angle. Preorbital 
with few coarse striae; suprascapula entire, 
Reakers 6T12, short knobs, about half of filaments, which 
1 2/5 in eye. *% cales cycloid, adherent, in longitudinal rows 
parallel with lateral line, except covergence behind; small 
scales on soft dorsal, anal, caudal and pectoral bases; 5 rows 
