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and tongue are mottled with red and white. Irides pale flesh color ; cornea 

 black. The smooth inner surfaces of the pectoral and ventral fins are intensely 

 red. 



Length, 8}4 inches. 



Habitat, Sandwich Islands. 



Remarks. — This fine large species is very rare. As compared with the C. 

 leprosus from the same location, it is much larger, more compressed, the eye3 

 much smaller and the ground color is quite different. In the leporina the eyes 

 are less than twice their own diameter distant from the auterior margin of the 

 upper jaw. In our fish they are five diameters distant from the same point. 



Ch^etodon L. 



Chatodon multicinctus Garrett. 



D. 13-24 ; A. 3-19 ; V. 1-5 ; P. 14 ; C. 3, 1, 8, 7, 1, 2. 



Form oval. The head enters about four and a half times in the total length, 

 The upper line of profile from the snout to the dorsal fin is nearly straight, 

 rising at an angle of 60°. The snout is short. The eye is large, circular, its 

 diameter one-third of the length of the head, and placed just midway between 

 the opercular corner and the end of the snout. The preopercular margin exhibits 

 a few small dentations. The scales are moderate size. 



The dorsal and anal fins are posteriorly rounded off, The hinder margin of 

 the caudal is truncate. The anterior soft ray of the ventrals is slightly pro- 

 longed beyond the margin of the fin. 



Color creamy-yellow. The sides are marked with five vertical, yellowish- 

 brown, diffuse stripes, the two anterior ones terminate on the side of the belly, 

 and the others at the base of the anal fin. There is a slight indication of a 

 sixth one along the basal half of the soft portion of the dorsal fin. Each scale 

 is marked with a faint, yellowish-brown dot. A yellow line starts from a point 

 above the base of the ventral, follows the line of the belly, and unites with a 

 black one which traverses the anal fin. A blue black spot in front of the 

 dorsal fin gradually passes into the ocular fascia, the latter being brown above 

 and yellow beneath the eye. Irides chrome-yellow. Upper lip brown. A 

 vertical black stripe, shaded off anteriorly with vermillion, marks the middle of 

 the caudal trunk. The dorsal spines and filaments are orange-yellow, the inter- 

 radial membrane is colorless. The soft portion of the dorsal and anal are 

 ochre-yellow along their middle-third, the former with a broad yellow and the 

 latter with a pale greenish margin. The two colors on either fin separated by a 

 narrow black and white line. The caudal is colorless, with a basal vertical 

 luniform bar, its convex margin anterior. The ventrals are whitish, and the 

 pectorals colorless. 



Length, Z% inches. 



Habitat, Sandwich Islands. 



Remarks. — Two examples of this species were procured in Honolulu market. 



_ „ 5 Nov. 1863. 



Peoc. Cal. Acad., vol. hi. u 



