98. CH.ETODOXTID.E POM 4 CANTHUS. 615 
tropical seas; most of them have the body crossed by transverse black 
bars. bristle; tooth.) 
963o C. BjaacaaHocinaclus (Gill) J. & G. 
Olivaceous, darker above; a dark-brown band from beginning of dor- 
sal fill obliquely forwards through eye and across the cheeks; a second 
bar beginning in a blotch on soft dorsal, runs vertically across the body. 
Body suborbicular, closely compressed ; profile steep, concave, the short 
snout projecting; mouth very small, maxillary not reaching the vertical 
from the anterior nostril; caudal peduncle very short ; lateral line, begin- 
ning at upper angle of opercle, running obliquely upwards to opposite 
the base of soft dorsal and then decurved, ending opposite extremity 
of soft dorsal. Head 2f in length; depth I 4 . 1). XII, 11); A. Ill, 17. 
Atlantic coast, rare. 
(Sarot/irodiis tnaciilocinctus Gil!, Proc. Aca J. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1831, 99.) 
329.— POMACArVTIIUS Lacdpede. 
[Ch(^iodon, Solacanthus, and Acanthoclicaiodon Bleeker.) 
(Lacdpede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv, 517, 1802: type Chcctodon arcuatus L.) 
This genus differs from Ghtetodon chiefly in the presence of a strong 
s])iue at the angle of the preopercle. Body much compressed and ele- 
■s'ated; dorsal fin entirely scaly, with 8-15 spines; the anal with 3; 
scales moderate or small; brauchiostegals 6 ; air-bladder with 2 poste- 
rior horns ; pyloric coeca numerous. Species numerous in the tropical 
seas. Many of them are brilliantly colored, (-cy/y-a, operculum ; d/jv^Oa^ 
spine.) 
a. Dorsal spines 12 to 15. (Holacanihus* Lac.) 
9S4. P. ciSiarls (Linn.) J. &. G.. — AngeJ-Jish; ImheUta. 
Brownish olive, each scale with a crescent-shaped mark of lighter ; 
nape with a dark-brown sjiot ocellated with blue ; chin, base of pectoral, 
borders and spines of opercle and preopercle bright cobalt blue ; fins 
with blue and yellow. Body oblong, compressed and elevated; mouth 
small; scales ciliate; soft dorsal and anal with the anterior rays pro- 
duced in long streamers. Head 4 in length ; depth about 2. D. XIV, 
20; A. HI, 20; scales 8-50-30. West Indies, occasional on our South 
Atlantic coast. 
(Chcctodon ciliaris Linn. Syst. Nat.: Holacanihus ciliaris Lac^pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 
iv, 527, 181)2: Holacanihus ciliaris Giintber, ii, 46: Holacanihus ciliaris Goode, Bull. U. 
S. Nat. Mns. v, 43.) 
*Lac6pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv, 525: tjpe Chcelodon tricolor Bloch. (oAo 5, complete; 
anavOa, spine.) 
