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Color in alcohol pale, with 7 longitudinal slightly inclined broad 

 blackish brown bands, the first along- the middle of the spinous dorsal 

 backward from the upper part of the third ray, then the others fol- 

 lowing below in a parallel manner; on the supraoccipital region of the 

 head two bands running down between the eyes and uniting near the 

 end of the snout; a dark bar from snout to eye; a dark spot on base 

 of the pectoral; ventrals and caudal plain. Length 7t inches. In 

 very small specimens the dark bars are very distinctl}' defined; there 

 are 2 black spots on the dorsal, one at the base of the anterior spine 

 and the other at the base of the anterior rays; on the anal the pectoral 

 bar is continued out over the base of the anal spines on to the anterior 

 rays, and there is also a black spot at the base of the posterior rays; a 

 black l)and originates on the head above the eyes and forks at the pec- 

 toral, the anterior division going to the ventrals; a dark stripe runs 

 across the chin from the maxillaries; outer portions of ventrals black. 

 Here described from examples from Wakanoura. 



This species is rather common about the headlands of southern 

 Japan. Our numerous specimens are from Tokyo, Misaki, and Naga- 

 saki. It is easily recognized by its 5 or 6 lengthwise stripes. It 

 lacks altogether the ocular cross-band almost universal in Ohtefodon. 



{sti'lgatus^ striped.) 



9. HENIOCHUS Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



Heniochux Cuviek and Valenciennes, Hist. Poiss., VII, 1831, p. 92 {macrolepi- 



dotm) . 

 Taurichthys Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Poiss., VII, 1831, y. 146 {varim). 

 Diphreutes Cantor, Malayan Fishes, 1850, p. 159 {macrolejiidotufc, substitute for 



Heniochus, on account of Henioche, a prior genus of Lepidoptera). 



Body much compressed and elevated; the forehead in the adult 

 often with bony projections; dorsal spines 11 to 13, the fourth greatly 

 elevated and filiform; muzzle rather short; no teeth on the palate; no 

 spine on the preopercle; scales moderate. East Indies; allied to 

 C/icetodon^ but well distinguished by the prolongation of the fourth 

 dorsal spine. 



{?}vioxog, a coachman, from the whip-like dorsal spine.) 



15. HENIOCHUS MACROLEPIDOTUS (Linnaeus). 

 HATx\,TATEDAI (FLAG RAISER PERCH). 



Chpelodon macwlepidotus Linn^us, 8yst. Nat., 10th ed., 1758, p. 274 (after Artedi, 

 Chpetodon lineis utruique 2-nigris radio quarto dorsali longissimo setiformi) . — 

 Bloch, Ichth., 1788, p. 50, pi. cc, fig. 1; India. 



Heniochus macrolepidotus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Poiss., VII, 1831, 

 p. 93. — Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1847, p. 82, pi. xliv, fig. 1; 

 Nagasaki. — Richardson, Ichth. China, 1846, p. 246; Canton.— Giinther, 

 Cat. Fish., II, 1860, p. 39; Ceylon, Amboyna, Port Essington.— Dav, Fish 

 India, 1875, p. 110, pi. viii, fig. 3. — Steindachner and Doderlein, Fische 

 Japans, II, 1883, p. 24; Kochi. 



