1678 Bulletin ^.y, United States National Mnsetim. 



on eacli edge, the one on caudal most distinct; the edges of vertical fins 

 abruptly pale. Length (5 inches. West Indies, generally common; our 

 specimens examined from Havana. A most beautiful little fish, {capi- 

 stratits, wearing a bridle or headdress.) 



Ghcetodon capistratus, LiNN^us, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 275, 1758, India; on a specimen in Mus. 

 Adolpli-Freilerici ; CuviER & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vii, 64, 1831; Gunther, 

 Cat., II, 12, 1860 ; JoKDAN & Gilbert, Synopsis, 940, 1883 ; Eiqenmann & Hokning, I. c. 

 9, 1887. 



Sarothrodui capiatrattis, I'oey, Ennmeratio, 62, 1875. 



2093. Cn.ETODON BRICEI, H. M. Smith. 



Head about 3; depth li; eye large, 2^ in head. D.XIII, 20; A. Ill, 18; 

 scales 6-40-17. Body short, deep, and much compressed; profile steep, 

 slightly convex; head rather large, pointed; mouth small, terminal; snout 

 not produced, § length of eye; lateral line beginning at posterior edge of 

 eye, curving upward and backward, and terminating under anterior part 

 of soft dorsal fin; scales large, the rf)ws above longitudinal axis of 

 body directed upward and backward, those below inclined slightly down- 

 ward. Caudal peduncle very short, about as broad as eye. Dorsal long, 

 elevated, the longest spine f length of head; soft dorsal evenly rounded; 

 basal half of both portions of fin thickly covered with small .scales; dor- 

 sal origiu opposite posterior edge of opercle; anal fin deep, long, rounded, 

 the proximal | of soft portion densely squamated, the small scales also 

 covering the bases of second and third spines ; caudal short, rounded ; 

 pectorals | length of head, rounded ; A'entrals as long as pectorals, pointed. 

 Colors in life : General body color, pearly gray ; a glistening jet-black band 

 about ^ Avidth of eye and having a forward curve beginning a short dis- 

 tance in front of dorsal and extending downward through eye and thence 

 downward and backward to lower margin of gill opening ; this not 

 extending on ]>reast and hence not meeting its fellow of the opposite 

 side; above eye this stripe is bordered pn each side by a very narrow pale 

 streak ; a dull l)lackish band, IJ times as wide as eye, running vertically 

 across body from base of dorsal to median line of abdomen; the anterior 

 ))order of this band extending from front of dor.sal to posterior angle of 

 opercle, thence obli<iuely downward and backward behind base of pectoral ; 

 behind this band and sejiarated from it by a space somewhat wider than 

 eye is another dark band, duller and f wider, with its anterior edge curved 

 forward and its i)osterior margin on the caudal peduncle; involving about 

 f width of this baud, and extending from dorsal to ventral edge of body 

 is a large, circular ocellus, more than 11 times eye, consisting of a dark- 

 blue spot surrounded by a narrow white zone, which covers a part of the 

 base of the soft dorsal: immediately aliove this, and within the extension 

 on the dorsal fin of the dark band, is another similar but smaller ocellus, 

 about the size of eye, involving first 8 or 9 rays of soft dorsal; a narrow 

 dark-brown vertical bar on caudal iieduncle, separated from base of caudal 

 rays and from that jjart of the broad body band posterior to the ocellus by 

 narrow white spaces; head in front of ocular stripes, and breast, greenish 

 yellow; a black crescentic mark on opercle; spinous dorsal dusky, the 



