No.mei. JAPANESE CH.ETODONTID.^— JORDAN AXD FOWLER. 531 



ec Anal rays about III, 17; dorsal rays XII, 20; body nearly plain, its 



posterior part dark; no ocellus nippon, 11. 



dd. Ocular region without distinct dark cross-l)and; whole body black, 

 mottled with golden; no ocellus; dorsal rays XIII, 22; anal rays 

 III, 16 dxdalma, 12. 



7. CH^TODON SETIFER Bloch. 



Chxtodon auriga Forskal, Descr. Anim., 1775, p. 60; Djedda and Lobaia, Red 

 Sea. — ? CuviER and Valenxiexnes, Hist. Poiss., VII, 18.S1, p. 79; Massuah. — 

 ? GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish., II, 1860, j). 7; Red Sea. — ? Klunzinger, Fische des 

 Rothen IMeeres, 1870, p. 775. 



Telragonopfcnis aurign Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., 1877-78, p. 47, pi. ii, lig. 4; Sumatra, 

 Java, Bewean, Cocos, Celebes, Flores, Timor, Ceram, Amboyna, etc. 



Ch.rfodon setifer Blocii, Ichth., XII, 1797, p. 99, pi. ccccxxvi, fig. 1 ; Coromandel. — 

 Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Poiss., VII, 1831, p. 76; Bolabola. — 

 GiJNTHER, Cat. Fish., II, 1860, p. 6; He de France, Andjoina, China, Anei- 

 tnm. — GtJNTHER, Fische Siidsee, I, 1873, p. 36, pi. xxvi, fig. B. — Ishikawa, 

 Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 53; Miyakoshima. 



CJnvtodon auriga var. setifer Day, Fish. India, I, 1875, p. 106, {)1. xxvii, fig. 3; Xico- 

 bar Islands. 



FomaccninisfilawadoxusLACEi'kDE, Hist Poiss., IV, 1803, i>. 511 (after ('li. sdifer 

 Bloch)." 



? ? Chaiodon ucwgallicvs CrviEU and Valenciennes, Hist. Poiss., Vll, 1831, p. 63; 

 He de France. — Gunther, Cat. Fish., II, 1860, p. 10; Amboina. 



C/?/ftorfo)ise6am(s Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Poiss., VII, 1831, p. 57; Timer, 

 Guam, Tongo, He de France, Java. 



Chaiodon lunaris Gronow, Cat. Fish., Ed. Gray, 1854, p. 70; India. 



Head 2f to 3; depth li; D. XII or XIII, 23 to 2(1; A. Ill, 21; 

 P. I, 15; y. I, 5; ycales 1:-1:1:-15, Bod}^ short, deep, and .strongl}^ 

 compressed; scales large on the sides, small on the. head, soft dor- 

 sal and anal, and the base of the caudal. Head small; profile very 

 steep; snout produced and pointed; eye large, equal to the snout, 

 and 3 in the head; mouth shorter than the eye, the maxilhuy not 

 extending backward as far as its anterior margin; nostrils small, 

 in front of the eye; teeth curved and projecting in ])rush-like bands, 

 in each jaAv; interorbital space convexly flattened; gill-opening long, 

 the membrane not united, but forming a fold across the isthmus; 

 gill rakers few, very short and weak; dorsal spines robust and 

 strong anteriorly, but shorter than the last, which are slender; soft 

 dorsal forming an angle in the middle, the sixth and seventh spines 

 produced beyond all the others into a point; lirst and second anal spines 

 robust, the first half the length of the second, and the third slender 

 and about equal to or a trifle longer than the second; soft anal with 

 the middle rays very long and its edge rounded; pectorals low, as long- 

 as the ventrals and shorter than the head; ventrals pointed, the spine 

 as long- as the last dorsal spine; caudal truncate, the corners sharp. 

 Lateral line very high and convex, concurrent with the margin of the 

 dorsal fin, indistinct on the sides of the caudal peduncle. Caudal 

 peduncle a trifle deeper than the length of the eye. 



