1674 Bulletin ^7, United States National Museum. 



blackish baud; a transverse band between the eyes, much narrower than 

 eye ; a band between dorsal fin and interorbital area, descending to tem- 

 ples and bordered with whitish ; another across dorsal fin, caudal peduncle, 

 and near margin of anal, the anterior margin of which extends from the 

 base of the anterior soft rays to axilla of anal fin; caudal, i^roduced part 

 of dorsal, margin of anal, and all of jiectoral and ventral fins i)ale. Cape 

 San Lucas; only the original types known, (nii/er, black; rostjww, beak.) 



Sarothrodus nii/rirotitris. Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 243, Cape San Lucas. Coll. 



Xantus.) 

 Chcetodon ntgrirostnii, JoRUAti & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 365; Eigenmann & 



HOENING, I. c, 7, 1887. 



2086. CH.ETODOX OCELLATIIS, Bloch. 



(PARCHE; ISABELITA DE LA ALTO.) 



Head 3; depth IL D. XII or XIII, 20; A. Ill, 16; scales 6-34-15, 31 in 

 a median series. Body subrhomboidal, the anterior profile concave; snout 

 somewhat produced, longer than eye in adult; lateral line extending to 

 below posterior third of soft dorsal ; dorsal and anal fins angulated behind. 

 Color golden gray ; a large nonocellated black spot on base of soft dorsal, 

 an indistinct band extending vertically from this spot to base of anal ; a 

 small black spot on tip of soft dorsal (not present in young); ocular band 

 narrower than eye, extending from in front of dorsal through eye and 

 over interopercle ; no humeral band ; a l)lack spot on opercle above. West 

 Indian fauna; coumnm at Havana, the young straying northward in the 

 Gulf Stream to New Jersey and Rhode Island, {ocellatus, with eye-like 

 spots.) 



Chcetodon ocellatus, Bloch, Ichthologia, pi. 211, flg. 2, 1787. 



Chcetodon bimaeulatus, Block, Iclitbologia, pi. 219, fig. 1, 1790; Cuvier & Valenciennes, 



Hist. Nat. Poiss., VII, 67, 1831; Poey, Memorias, n, 371, I860; Gunther, Cat., ii,9, I860; 



Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 940, 1883. 

 Sarothrodusmaculocinctus,* GlU., Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 99, Newport, R. I.; youug. 

 Sarothrodus am2)Zexico?fi'.s', Poet, Envimeratio, 63, 1875, Cuba; youug. 

 Chcetodon maculocinctus, Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsi.s, 616, 1883. 

 Chcetodon ocellatus, Eigenmann & Horning, I. c, 7, 1887. 



2087. CH.ETODON HUMEUALIS, Giinther 



(MuNECA; Doll Fish.) 



Head 3 ; depth 1^ ; eye 3. D. XIII, 20; A. Ill, 17 ; scales 6-30-17. Body 

 deep, the back elevated, the profile steep and slightly concave or straight; 

 snout very slightly produced, shorter than eye. Scales rather large; all 



"Chcetodon macuhK-inctiis (Qri-LL). Head 2J; depth IJ. D. XII, 19; A. Ill, 17. Body 

 suborbicular, cId.scIv cniiipressed; profile steep, concave, the short snout projecting; 

 mouth very small, iiiaxillai\- not reaching the vertical from the anterior nostril; caudal 

 peduncle very short; lateral line beginning at upper angle of opercle, running oblicjuely 

 upward to opposite the ba.se of soft dorsal and thendecurved, ending oppo.site extremity 

 of soft dorsal. Olivaceous, darker above; a dark-brown band from beginning of dors-il 

 fin obliquely forward through eye and across the cheeks; a second bar litginning in a 

 blotch on so'ft dorsal, runs vertically across the body. Atlantic coast in the G ulf Stream ; 

 doubtless the young of Chcetodon ocellatus. 



