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238. Ulugan Bay, Palawan. December 29, 1908. Length 77 mm. 



10434 and 10435. Varadero Bay, Mindoro. July 23, 190&. ^Length 81 to 92 mm. 



21475. Doworra Island, Dutch East Indies. December 2, 1909. Length 104 



mm. 

 432, 455, 4817, 9674, 9675. Talisse Island. November 9, 1909. Length 42 to 



65 mm. 

 664. Hokuho, Soo Wan, Formosa. January 29, 1910. Length 132 mm. 

 4815. Hokuho. January 9, 1910. Length 135 mm. 

 22959 to 22965. Reefs in Apra Bay, Guam.- November 19-20, 1907. Length 



38 to 115 mm. 

 21170 U.S.N. M. Hawaiian Islands. Paris Museum. Length 127 mm. 

 28553 U.S.N. M. Fiji. Paris Museum. Three young. 

 28559 U.S.N.M. Madagascar. Paris Museum. Length 73 to 95 mm. Two 



examples. 

 30653 and 30654 U.S.N.M. New Guinea. Australian Museum. Length 107 to 



112 mm. Two examples. 

 32748 U.S.N.M. Indian Archipelago. Leiden Museum. Length 100 mm. 

 43936 U.S.N.M. Suva. Albatross collection. One young. 

 43936 U.S.N.M. Mauritius. Colonel Nicholas Pike. Length 90 to 114 mm. 



Six examples. 

 55427 U.S.N.M. Suva, Fiji. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 81 to 119 mm. 



Twelve examples. 

 55478 U.S.N.M. Honolulu. Fur Seal Commission. Length 119 mm. 

 57002 U.S.N.M. Apia, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries 1902. Length 83 to 115 



mm. Three examples. 

 65457 U.S.N.M. Mangareva. Albatross collection 1904-1905. Length 60 mm. 

 65796 U.S.N.M. Suva, Fiji. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 94 mm. [08864]. 

 65952 U.S.N.M. Fakarava. Albatross collection. 



71682 U.S.N.M. Nafa, Okinawa. Albatross collection 1906. Length 125 mm. 

 Philippines. Three examples (with 79260 U.S.N.M.). Length 111 to 122 mm. 

 Three examples. E. H. Taylor. As Chaetodon setifer. 

 83269 U.S.N.M. No locality. Wilkes Exploring Expedition. Length 87 mm. 



CHAETODON MELAPTERUS Guichenot 



Chaetodon melaptertis Guichenot, Faun. Reunion, Maillard, 1862, p. 6. 

 Reunion Island. 



Chaetodon melanopterus Playf air, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1865, p. 34 (Aden). — 

 BouLENGER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887, p. 657 (Muscat, Arabia). — 

 Ahl, Arch. Naturg., vol. 89, abth. A, Heft 5, 1923, p. 63 (copied). 



Snout conic, little longer than eye. Preopercle hardly serrated. 

 Scales large. D. XIII, 21; A. Ill, 28; soft dorsal and anal rounded 

 posteriorly. Brillant yellow with darker longitudinal stripes follow- 

 ing series of scales, but without dark punctuation. Snout end black. 

 Ocular band black, also another parallel from first dorsal spines to 

 preopercle angle, narrower than orbit and extends around throat. 

 Vertical fins black, except yellowish edges of dorsal and anal and 

 hind white part of caudal. (Playf air.) 



CHAETODON EPHIPPIUM Cuvler 



Chaetodon ephippium Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 80, pi. 174. 

 Moluccas. — Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool., vol. 2, pt. 1, 1830 (1831), p. 

 174, pi. 29, fig. 1 (Beula Bay, Borabora).— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. 



