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verticalJy on postocular, down above ventral axil and then back along 

 anal basally to longer posterior rays. Another parallels from posterior 

 dorsal spines, extending to pectoral base from axil of which another 

 line joins obliquely also from last dorsal spines; below arches little 

 down and then up across caudal peduncle along caudal base. Two 

 other parallel black lines arch from soft dorsal posteriorly and slope 

 forward medianly on sides of body. Slight variations in juncture 

 and extension occur in black lines, though in general of constant gen- 

 eral pattern. White vertical line between 2 black lines postocular 

 on head. Membranes of spinous dorsal usually, though not always, 

 black. Anal with pale yellowish or whitish edge and broad submar- 

 ginal deep brown band, edged narrowly blackish and medianly giving 



Fig. 3.— Vahiation of color markings of Chaetodon meyeri Schneider 



place to another black line, only posteriorly with yellow median lon- 

 gitudinal streak. Caudal with narrow whitish margin, then black 

 submarginal line; another blackish line nearly median transversely. 

 Paired fins brownish. 



Knov/n only from the East Indies. It is a very striking species, 

 its color pattern somewhat suggestive of that of Chaetodon ornatissimus 

 or Holacanthus imperator. 



A685, A706, A707, A722, A723. Danawan Island. September 26-28, 1909. 

 Length 128 to 175 mm. Side gray, stripes black with slight yellowish shade 

 at edges. Forehead pale slate gray; chin and upper lip black; circumoral 

 ring black with pale or somewhat dusky lemon yellow interval between chin 

 and circumoral ring and ocular band, none of red on side of head and opercle 

 as shown in Bleeker's plate; band across opercle medially yellow, not whitish, 

 width equal to yellow border of ocular band and placed midway between two 



