Jordan and Evennann. — Fishes of Nojdh Amcj'ica. 1677 



2091. CH^TODON STRIATUS, Liimteus. 



(Butterfly.) 



Head 3 ; depth 1^ ; eye 3|. D. XII or XI, 21 ; A. Ill, 8 ; scales 8-40-16. Body 

 ovate, compressed, the anterior profile somewhat concave. Soft dorsal and 

 anal somewhat angulate behind; snout little produced, very little longer 

 than eye. Series of scales above lateral line running upward and back- 

 ward, less straight than in Chcvtodon capistratus, above and below with a 

 continuous black streak, which is conspicuous, the streaks somewhat 

 undulate, converging backward. Series of scales below axis of body run- 

 ning downward and liackward, more nearly horizontal than in Chatodon 

 capistratus. Side whitish, with narrow dark lines between the rows of 

 scales; a black stripe from occiput through eye to lower side of head; a 

 broad, dusky band from anterior part of dorsal across sides behind pectoral 

 and ventral, not hiding the longitudinal markings; another similar one 

 from posterior part of spinous dorsal to and across middle of anal ; an olive 

 baud across caudal peduncle and fins adjacent; soft dorsal and anal light 

 at base, a broad olive band through middle, this edged with black, the tips 

 narrowly yellowish; caudal similar, but with an additional colorless mar- 

 gin; olive mottlings at base of caudal; pectoral colorless; ventral plain, 

 dusky, lighter at base; sometimes a large, ill-defined, rosy blotch behind 

 pectoral. West Indies to Brazil, rather common ; our specimen from Bahia. 

 (striatus, striped.) 



Ghcetodon macrolepidoliis, lineis utrinque trihus nigris lafit, Abtedi, Synopsis, 95, 1738; no 



locality. 

 Labrusrostro reflexo fasclis lateralihiis trihus fuscis. Linn.eus, Adkbu. Ac, i, 595. 1749; after 



Artedi. 

 Ghcetodon striatus, LiNXJErs, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 275, 1758, India (after Chcetodon macrolepi- 



dotiis, etc., Artedi) ; Ccvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vn, 10, 1831 ; Poet, 



Memorias, ii, 371, I860; Gltnther, Cat., ii, 8, 1860; Eigenmann & Horning, I. c, 8, 1887. 

 Sarothrodus striatus, Poey, Synopsis, 352, 1868. 



Subgenus CHATODON. 



2092. ( II-ETODOX CAPISTRATUS, Linnaus. 

 (PARCHfi.) 



Head SJ; depth 1|. D. XIII (or XII), 19; A. Ill, 17; scales 6-42-17. 

 Body not very deep, the back moderately elevated, the anterior profile 

 somewhat concave; snout somewhat produced, as long as the eye; soft 

 dorsal and anal fins angulated behind; dorsal spines rather slender; 

 scales rather large, their arrangement peculiar, those above the level of 

 the upper part of the eye x>laced in straight series which run upward and 

 backward, those below this line in series running similarly downward and 

 backward, each scries of scales being sharply marked by a continuous 

 blackish streak on the skin underneath the scales. Ocular band black, 

 edged on both sides with white, much narrower than eye, and extending 

 across eye and cheek, the 2 meeting on the nape; a very large jet-black 

 spot, i broader thau eye, broadly ocellated with whitish on body below 

 soft dorsal; soit anal and caudal each with a brown band becoming black 



