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scales along bases of soft vertical fins. Dark ocular band not extend- 

 ing entirely over cheek. Caudal with dark median line. 

 One example (with 43937 U.S.N.M.) from Mauritius, through Colonel Nicholas 

 Pike. Length 85 mm. 



CHAETODON PUNCTATOFASCIATUS Cuvier 



Chaetodon punctatofasciatus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1839, p. 28. 

 No locality. — Gt)NTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 27 (type of 

 Chaetodon punctato-lineatus Gray); Cruise of Curagoa, Brenchley, 1873, 

 p. 410 (Misol, Moluccas). — Martens, Preuss. Exp. Ost-Asien, 1876, 

 p. 388 (Amboina). — Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fish., vol. 26, 1906 

 (1907), p. 34 (Manila).— Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 308 

 (Banda).— Fowler and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 62, 1922, p. 56 

 (Cebu).— Ahl, Arch. Naturg., vol. 89, abth. A, Heft 5, 1923, p. 100 

 Amboina). — Fowler, Bishop Mus. Bull., No. 22, 1925, p. 27 (Honolulu). — 

 Fowler and Ball, Bishop Mus. Bull., No. 26, 1925 (1926), p. 17 (Johnston 

 Island). — Herre and Montalban, Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 34, No. 1 

 September, 1927, p. 60, pi. 12, fig. 1 (Batangas and Calapan). 



Citharoedus punctatofasciatus Katjp, Arch. Naturg., vol. 26, abth. 1, 1860, p 

 144 (Amboina). 



Tetragonopirus {Tetragonoptrus) piaictatofasciatus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind 

 N^erland., vol. 9, 1877, p. 40, pi. (12) 374, fig. 3 (Burn, Obi, Solor, Amboina 

 Banda) . 



Chaetodon punctato-lineatus Gray, Cat. Fish. Gronow, vol. 2, 1854, p. 70 

 India. 



Chaetodon multicinctus Garrett, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., vol. 3, 1865, p. 65 

 Hawaiian Islands. — Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeflfroy, vol. 2-3, Heft 5-6 

 1874, p. 44, pi. 34, fig. B (Honolulu). 



Depth 11^ to 13^; head 2% to 3%, width 1% to 2,^. Snout 2% 

 to 3 in head; eye 2% to 2J'^, equals snout, greater than interorbital 

 in young to equal with age; maxillary half way in snout, 4 in head; 

 interorbital 2% to 3^/8, broadly convex. Gill rakers 5 + 11, short 

 points, }/Q of gill filaments, which IJ^ in eye. 



Scales 29 to 32 between gill opening and caudal base; tubes 34 to 

 37 in lateral line; 7 or 8 scales above lateral line, 14 or 15 below. 

 Scales with 11 to 15 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 64 to 137, 

 with 16 to 18 series of basal elements transversely; circuli fine. 



D, XIII, 22,1 to 25,1, last spine 13^8 to 1% in head, eleventh ray 

 IK to 1}4; A. Ill, 17, 1 or 18, i, last spine 13^ to 1}4, third ray IH 

 to 1%; least depth of caudal peduncle 2^ to 3J^; caudal 1% to 

 13^, hind edge little convex; pectoral 1 to l}/s; ventral 2% to 3^ 

 in combined head and body. 



Back brown with slight olive tint, abdomen, breast and lower 

 surface of head pale to whitish. On back, from bases of dorsals, 8 

 deep brown vertical bands, mostly parallel, fourth to sixth widest 

 and extend down half way in body depth. Scales between dark 

 bands and within their areas, also all of lower side of body each with 

 variable dark brown blotch, though blotches of costal region largest 



