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India, Port Essington) .— Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, 1865, p. 103 (Mad- 

 ras).— Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 60, Heft 1, 1870, 

 p. 561 (Singapore).— Karoli, Termesz. Fiizetek, Budapest, vol. 5,' 188l[ 

 p. 155 (Singapore).— Meyer, An. Soc. Espanola, Hist. Nat. Madrid, vol! 

 14, 1885, p. 17 (North Celebes).— Gorgoza, An. Soc. Espanola, Hist. Nat 

 Madrid, vol. 15, 1865, p. 73 (Philippines).— Duncker, Mitt. Naturh. 

 Mus. Hamburg, vol. 21, 1903 (1904), p. 147 (Singapore). 

 Chaetodon enceladus Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Miscellany, vol. 2, 1791, ul. 



67. India. 

 Chelmon marginalis Richardson, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., London, vol. 10, 



1842, p. 29. Port Essington, Australia. 

 Chelmo marginalis Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 36 (Swan 

 River; type of C/ieZmon jwar^inaiis Richardson).— Macleay,' Proc. Linn 

 Soc. New South Wales, vol. 2, 1878, p. 352 (Port Darwin).— Klunzinger* 

 Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol. 80, Heft 1, 1879, p. 361 (Port Darwin). 

 Chelmo mulleri Klunzinger, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, vol 80 Heft 1 

 1879, p. 361. Australia. ' ' 



Chelmon mulleri McCtjlloch, Biol. Res. Endeavour, vol. 4, pt. 4, Oct. 31, 



1916, p. 193, pi. 55, fig. 2 (off Bowen, Queensland).' 

 Chelmo pulchcr Steindachner, Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wiss. Wien vol 70 Heft 1 

 1874-75, p. 382. Mauritius. 



Depth iy2 to 1^; head 2^ to 2^, width 3 to 4. Snout ly^ to 

 2ys in head from snout tip; eye 3^ to 4^, lyg to Sy in snout, equals 

 interorbital; maxillary % to M to eye, 2y to 2^ in head; interorbital 

 4y to 6, slightly convex. Gill rakers 3 + 7 rather flexible short points, 

 about y of gill filaments, which 13^ in eye. 



Scales 43 to 48 between gill opening and caudal base; tubes 43 to 

 46 in lateral line to caudal base; 10 scales above lateral Hne, 21 to 24 

 below. Scales with 12 to 17 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 

 48 to 76, with 4 to 7 series of basal elements transversely; circuli fine. 



D. IX, 28, I or 29, i, last spine ly to 234 in total head length, 

 eighth ray 1% to 1%; A. Ill, 19, i or 20, i, last spine 23^ to 2y, 

 fourth ray 12^ to 2; least depth of caudal peduncle 4 to 43^^; caudal 

 23^ to 23/^, hind edge broadly convex; pectoral ly to VA: ventral 



lytoiy. 



Light brown, paler and with silvery reflections below. Five broad 

 brownish vertical bauds; first through eye down to gill opening but 

 not on chest; second from first dorsal spine, before pectoral to ventral 

 origin; third from last dorsal spines to vent; fourth broadest from 

 base of soft dorsal to that of anal; last blackish, narrowest at base of 

 caudal, across caudal peduncle; each of these bands with narrow inner 

 darker border line and outer whiter one. Each row of body scales 

 with median or marginal dark longitudinal line or stripe. At soft 

 dorsal near base and medially black ocellus with white marginal ring- 

 Soft dorsal and anal with narrow whitish and brown submarginal 

 narrow band. Fins otherwise all pale brownish, ventrals inside with 

 anterior or front half deeper brown and leaving broad whitish inner 

 for hind border. 



