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CHAETODON ASSARIUS Waite 



Chaetodon assarius Waite, Rec. Austral. Mus., vol. 6, 1905, p. 66, pi. 11, 

 fig. 1. Between Freemantle and Houtman's Abrolhos. 



D. XIII, 21; A. Ill, 17. Yellow or pale brown. Dark ocular 

 band present. Four dark narrow bars on side slightly inclined. 

 Black ocellus, little less than eye at angle of soft dorsal. Anal with 

 submarginal blackish band. Length 119 mm, (Waite.) 



CHAETODON RAFFLESH Bennett 



Chaetodon rafflesii Bennett, Life of Raffles, 1830, p. 689. Sumatra. — 

 GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, 1860, p. 27 (types; Amboina); 

 Jouru. Mus. Godeffroy. vol. 2-3, Heft 5-6, 1874, p. 44, pi. 35, fig. C (Pelew 

 Islands; Fiji). — Martens, Preuss. Exp. Ost-Asien, 1876, p. 388 (Ambo- 

 ina). — Meyer, An. Soc. Espanola Hist. Nat. Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 17 

 (Manado, Celebes). — Steindachner, Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Ges., vol. 

 25, 1900, p. 419 (Batjan). — Fowler and Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 

 71, 1927, p. 8 (Poetoe Tokus Island, Sumatra). 



Chaetodo7i rafflesi Ahl, Arch. Naturg., vol. 89, abth. A, Heft 5, 1923, p. 158 

 (New Pomerania, Amboina, New Hannover, Pitatuki Buka, Thalassia, 

 New Guinea, Ralum, Sipora, Matupi). — Herre and Montalban, Philip- 

 pine Journ. Sci., vol. 34, No. 1, Sep. 1927, p. 36, pi. 6, fig. 2 (Aloneros, 

 Calapan, Tagbilaran, Canigaran, Cotabato, Tubigan). 



Tetragonoptrus (Linophora) raffled Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., 

 vol. 9, 1877, p. 49 (Sumatra, Java, Bawean, Celebes, Sumbawa, Timor, 

 Halmaheira, Ternate, Ceram, Amboina, Haracu, Goram, Aru, Waigiu, 

 New Guinea). 



Chaetodon princeps Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 33. New 

 Ireland.— Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool., vol. 2, pt. 1, 1830 (1831), p. 177 

 (Port Praslin, New Ireland). 



Chaetodon scbae Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 7, 1831, p. 52. New^ Guinea. 



Coradion chrysozonus (not Cuvier) Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerland., 

 vol. 9, 1877, p. 49, pi. (14) 376, fig. 5. 



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

 to 2% in head; eye 3 to 4, 1 to 1}/^ in snout, greater than inter- 

 orbital in young to 13^ in interorbital with age; maxillary 3^ to ^ 

 in snout, 33^ to 3^ in head; interorbital 3^ to 4, broadly convex. 

 Gill rakers 4 + 9, short points, 4}/2 in gill filaments which 1^^ in eye. 



Scales 27 to 29 between gill opening and caudal base; scales 26 or 

 27 in lateral line; 5 or 6 scales above lateral line, 12 or 13 below. 

 Scales with 9 to 18 basal radiating striae; apical denticles 61 to 157, 

 with 7 to 12 transverse series of basal elements; circuli fine. 



D. XIII, 22, I or 23, i, last spine l}i to 1% in head, twelfth ray 

 1% to 13^; A. Ill, 19, I or 20, i, third spine 1^ to 1%; tenth ray 

 13^ to 1%; least depth of caudal peduncle 33^ to 4; caudal 13^ to 

 1^, hind edge slightly convex; pectoral 1^ to 13/^; ventral 13^ to 13^. 



Brown, paler on breast, abdomen and lower surfaces. With age 

 large diffuse dusky blotch, longer than head, on front side of back. 



