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THE ARMED EXOPLOSSUS. 



Enoplossus armatus Lacep. 



PLATE IX. 



Long spined Chaetodon, Cboetodon armatus, White's 

 Voyage to New South Wales, App. p. 254. — Enoplossus, 



Lacepede L'Enoplose, Cuv. et Valen. Hist. Nat. des 



Poisso7is, ii. p. 133. 



B. 7; D. 7— 1.14, or 1.15; A. 3.15; C. 17; P. 12; V. 1.15. 



This, with the next fish, are very remarkable 

 in their forms as coming into the present family. 

 At first sight they appear to be something quite 

 different, but, on examination, the characters of 

 the percoid fishes are very evident. The fish 

 represented on Plate IX, so much resembles a 

 Chsetodon in form, (being nearly as deep as long,) 

 that it has been placed with them, and the dai k 

 banded markings and lengthened rays of the 

 fins bring it even nearer in resemblance ; but the 

 teeth, the want of the scaling at the base of the 

 fins, and the internal structure of all parts, diflier. 

 The colouring is chaste, but distinct ami well 

 marked, the ground shade entirely of a silvery 

 gray, palest on the belly, and relieved by eight 

 narrow black bands, which either entirely or in 

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