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BAN, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 34, No. 1, September, 1927, p. 42, pt. 9, 



fig. 1 (Balinakan, Bennett, Quiminatin Islands). 

 Citharocdus ornatissimus Kaup, Arch. Naturg., vol. 26, abth. 1, 1860, p. 



142 (Tahiti). 

 Teiragonoptriis (Citharoedus) ornatissimus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. 



Neerland., vol. 9, 1877, p. 32, pi. (13) 375. fig. 2 (Amboina, New 



Guinea). 

 Chaetodon ornatus Gray, Zool. Miscellany, 1831, p. 33. Hawaiian Islands. — 



Griffith, Animal Kingdom Cuvier, Pisces, vol. 10, 1834, p. 323, 



pi. 20 (name only). 

 Chaetodon ornatissimus var. kaupi Ahl, Arch. Naturg., vol. 89, abth. A, Heft 



5, 1923, p. 52. Samoa, Ralum, Matupi. 



Depth \}4 to 1%; head 3 to 3^, width \% to 2. Snout 3 to ZYs 

 in head from snout tip; eye 2;^^ to 3%, greater than snout in young 

 to 13^ with age, 1 to \% in interorbital; maxillary 34 or to eye, Z]/^ 

 to 3^ in head; interorbital 2^-^ to 2%, broadly convex. Gill rakers 

 5 + 14, short points, J/g of gill filaments, which \}/i in eye. 



Scales 43 to 49 between gill opening and caudal base; tubes 23 to 

 43 in lateral line; 10 to 12 scales above lateral line, 24 or 25 below. 

 Scales with 8 to 10 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 48 to 108, 

 with 8 to 9 series of transverse basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. XII, 24, I or 25, i, last spine 1% to IJ-^ in total head length, 

 tenth ray 1 3^ to 1%; A. Ill, 20, i or 21, i, last spine 1% to 2, tenth 

 ray 13^ to \}/2', least depth of caudal peduncle 2% to 2^U; caudal 

 1% to 1^, broadly convex behind; pectoral 1 to l}/z', ventral 1 to 



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Brown generally, with broad yellowish-brown bands, slightly sloping 

 down forward longitudinally, also each margined by sHghtly grayish 

 line. Black supraoccipital band down to eye, then down across cheek 

 to breast where meeting its fellow, width much less than eye and front 

 and hind edges each with sulphur yellow line. Black narrow band 

 submarginally along dorsal then down vertically along hind eye edge 

 to gill opening; also 2 black vertical lines parallel on head, first from 

 suprascapula dovv^n along and behind preopercle edge and other along 

 hind opercle edge shorter. Black band over front of snout and down 

 across throat, with yellow marginal line in front and behind. Upper 

 lip yellow forming broad yellow band across chin leaving lower lip 

 black. Interorbital brown. Edge of soft dorsal with narrow black 

 line. Anal likewise, then submarginal broader buff line or band 

 against which another black line. Caudal with very narrow whitish 

 edge, broader deep brown submarginal band against which broad buff 

 band, then broad, })lack transverse median band. Paired fins pale 

 brownish. 



East Indies, Polynesia, Hawaii. Examples vary as sometimes the 

 bands may be asymmetrically broken. In small examples but 6 small 

 and broader, dark bands and dark bands on caudal closer and median 

 on fin. 



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