148 BULLETIN 180, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



25&. Caudal with a jet-black transverse band across middle of fin. 



27a. Body pale, with faint pigment near edges of scales, thus 

 giving appearance of a faint cross pattern of lines fol- 

 lowing rows of scales ; upper part of body over pectoral 

 fln with a large faint patch of dark pigment ; black band 

 from nape passes through eye, band narrower than 

 eye, to branchiostegal membranes but not on breast; 

 pectoral pale ; caudal peduncle pale ; wide white margin 

 on caudal fln, center of fin crossed with a black band, 

 very wide at midaxis of fln but tapering to a point 

 dorsally and ventrally; margin of anal white, then a 

 submarginal black line the proximal five-sixths of fin 

 pale ; margin of soft dorsal white, then a submarginal 

 black band increasing in width to near end of fin, then 

 below it a white band of similar contour but narrower, 

 rest of fin darker with large yellow spots on scales ; 

 spinous dorsal with a diffuse narrow submarginal 

 blackish band ; dorsal rays XIII, 21, anal III, 19, scale 

 rows about 29 Chaetodon rafflesii Bennett 



27&. About six black bands inclined upward across body and 

 ending in soft dorsal, except ventral one, which ends 

 in front of base of last anal rays ; these bands begin in 

 middle of body and are preceded by rows of blackish 

 spots ; often between the more obvious bands are nar- 

 rower ones ; a black patch in front of origin of dorsal 

 is more or less continuous with band through eye, this 

 band with a light center and the black lines bordering 

 it narrower below eye than above, the band fading on 

 lower part of cheek ; pectoral pale ; caudal fin with a 

 black band across center of fin ; soft dorsal with white 

 margin, then a submarginal black line, below this the 

 fln a little pigmented ; anal same as soft dorsal ; dorsal 

 rays XIII, 23; anal III, 18; scales about 45. 



Chaetodon pelewensis Kner 



Genus FORCIPIGER Jordan and McGregor 



Forcipiger Jordan and McGrbxsor, in Jordan and Evermann, U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 Bull. 47, pt. 2, p. 1671, 1898. (Type, Chelmon longirostris Cuvier and Valen- 

 ciennes.) 



FORCIPIGER LONGIROSTRIS (Broussonet) 



Chaetodon longirostris Broussonet, Ichthyologia, sistens piscium descriptiones et 

 icones, p. 6, pi. 7, 1782. 



52282, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen 



Genus PARACHAETODON Bleaker 



Parachaetodon Bleeker, Versl. Med. Akad. Amsterdam, ser. 2, vol. 8, p. 371, 1874. 

 (Type, Chaetodon oligacanthus Bleeker.) 



PARACHAETODON OCELLATUS (Bloch) 



Chaetodon ocellatus Bloch, Naturgeschichte der auslandischen Fische, pt. 2, p. 

 105, pi. 211, fig. 2, 1787. 



No specimen in National Museum from Phoenix or Samoan Islands. 



