172 ORDER ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



and their cceca long, slender, and numerous ; their 

 natatory bladder is large, and very strong. They 

 frequent rocky shores, and are eaten. 



Ciletodon, (properly so called.) 



The body more or less elliptical ; the spinous and 

 soft rays continuing in an uniform curve ; the snout 

 projecting more or less, and sometimes a very fine den- 

 ticulation on the preoperculum. They have a mutual 

 resemblance, even in the distribution of colours, most 

 of them, for instance, being marked with a vertical 

 black band, in which is placed the eye. 



In some there are several other vertical bands 

 parallel to the former l . 



In others they are oblique or longitudinal 2 . 



The flanks of some are sprinkled with brown spots 3 . 



Others again are merely marked with lines of re- 

 flexions in various directions ; here it is merely the 

 ocular band 4 , and there are, in addition, ribands on 

 the vertical fins 5 . 



1 Chest, striatus, L., Bl. 205. f. 1. Ch. octofasc/atus, Gm., Bl., 

 215. H. collare, Bl. 216. 



Chat. Meyeri, BL, Schn., improperly called Holocanthe jaune 

 et noir by Lacep. IV. xiii. 2. 



Chest, miliaris, Cuv., Zool. Voy. Freycin, pi. lxii. f. 5. 



4 Chest. Kleinii, Bl. 218. 2. Ch. Seles, Cuv., Seb. III. xxvi. 36. 



1 Chest, vittatus, Bl., Schn., Seb. III. xxix. 18. Ch. vagctbun- 

 dm, Bl. 204. Ch. decussatus, Cuv., Russ. 83 ; and Klein. Mis. IV. 

 ix. 2. Ch. bifascialis, Cuv., Voy. de Freycin. pi. lxii. f. 5. Ch. 

 strigangulus, Gm. Ch. baronessa, Cuv., Renard I. xliii. 218. Ch. 



