fins; in these scales each band marked with blackish center 
and traces of minute pale spots visible. Vertical fins mostly 
light yellow; dorsals with dusky edge marked with 2 whitish 
submarginal longitudinal lines, lower broken into bars and 
spots on soft dorsal; small pale spots on dark transverse 
bands on both dorsals and anals; anal edge like dorsal, though 
pale lines more broken; ceudal with 2 broad slaty-black trans- 
verse bands, first just after yellow basal scales, others form 
broad dark fin edge; both marked ahove and below with pale spots, 
Pectoral uniform pale brown, Ventral similar, pale brownish 
medially, 
rE pun ey r 
Fowler recorded the ahove as CG. enneacantnhus, as 5 
fish was ascribed to Japan, probably by error. Bloch and Gin 
ther s figures agree in the absence of a black Spot at pectoral 
base above, 
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Leg 
Journ,Acad,Nat.Sci.Phila.,(2)vol.12,1904,p., 
Cheilinus bimaculatus Valenciennes, 
ue 4 
Head 21/2 to 2 3/4; depth 2 3/4 to 3 1/5; 
A. III, 8, i; scales 15 or 16 in upper section of lateral line, 
6 in horizontal section to ceudal base and 2 more on latter; 2 
scales above lateral line to soft dorsal origin, 5 or 6 below 
-- cD ad 
to spinous anal origin; 6 to 8 predorsal scales; snout 3 to 3 1/4 
