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Brown, breast and abdomen below paler. Above lateral line 5 

 darker bands, parallel with its course, below 13 or 14 horizontal, 

 each extending medially on scale row. Broad blackish-brown band 

 from predorsal, meeting its fellow and including most of eye and 

 down across cheek to edge of gill opening, but not on chest; broad 

 white band all along posterior border and narrow white band along 

 front border below eye. Lips deep brown. Iris dark brown. Ver- 

 tical fins dark brown like back; soft dorsal and anal each with pale to 

 whitish submarginal line; caudal broadly pale behind, inner half of 

 band yellowish. Paired fins dull brown. 



Red Sea, India, East Indies, Formosa, China, Japan. 



7104 and 7105. Port San Pio Quinto, Camiguin Island. November 11, 1908. 



Length 167 to 173 mm. 

 6910. Santo Domingo, Batan. November 7, 1908. Length 174 mm. 

 7183. West coast of Palaui Island. November 18, 1908. Length 170 mm. 

 6936 to 6939, 6948, 6968 to 6970. West coast of Sabtan Island. Length 163 to 



173 mm. 

 674, 4816, A1591, A1592. Hokuko, Soo Wan, Formosa. January 29, 1910. 



Length 148 to 157 mm. 

 A1661, A1566, A1567. San Wan, Kwa Siang Bay, Formosa. January 25, 1910. 



Length 163 to 175 mm. 

 22585 U.S.N.M. Sagami, Japan. Japanese Government. Length 135 mm. 

 50427 U.S.N.M. Hong Kong, China. P. L. Jouy. Length 139 mm. 

 71290 U.S.N.M. Misaki, Sagami, Japan. Albatross collection, 1906. Length 



42 mm. As Chaetodon lunula. 

 71487 U.S.N.M. Tanegashima. Albatross collection. Length 48 to 67 inm. 



Two examples. As Chaetodon lunula. 

 72112 U.S.N.M. Kagoshima, Satsuma. Bureau of Fisheries. Length 113 to 



145 mm. Two examples. 



CHAETODON RETICULATUS Cuvier 



Chaetodon reticulatus Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 32, pi. 171. 

 Tahiti and Ulea.— Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool., vol. 2 (1), 1830 (1831), 

 p. 178, pi. 30, fig. 2 (Tahiti).— SwAiNSON, Nat. Hist. Animals, vol. 2, 1839, 

 p. 211.— GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 22 (copied). — 

 Kner, Raise Novara, Fische, 1865, p. 271 (Tahiti). — ELERA.Cat. Fauna 

 Filipin., vol. 1, 1895, p. 486 (copied). — Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. 

 Fish., vol. 25, 1905 (1906), p.. 342 (Apia and Pago Pago).— Ahl, Arch. 

 Naturg., vol. 89, abth. A, Heft 5, 1923, p. 139 (Samoa and Jaluit). 



? Chaetodon bellicosus Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool., 1825, p. 383. 

 Guam. (No description, passing reference.) 



Chaetodon superbus (Broussonet) Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, 

 p. 32. Ulea. (Name in text.) 



Citharoedus collaris (not Bloch) Kaup, Arch. Naturg., vol. 26, abth. 1, 1860, 

 p. 141 (Tahiti). 



Chaetodon collaris Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 2-3, Heft 5-6, 1874, 

 p. 40, pi. 31, fig. A (Paumotu). — Fowler, Occas. Papers Bishop Mus., 

 vol. 8, No. 7, 1923, p. 384 (Honolulu); Bishop Mus. Bull., No. 22, 1925, 

 p. 34 (Samoa). — Fowler and Ball, Bishop Mus. Bull., No. 26, 1925 

 (1926), p. 18 (Wake Island). 



Depth IH to 1%; head 2% to 3K, width IJ^ to 2. Snout 2% to 

 3 in head from snout tip; eye 3 to 3%, 1 to 13^ in snout, little greater 



