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eating to eye and caudal peduncle while above 2 parallel short 

 bands and 1 below from cheek to caudal peduncle below ; dark 



bar on caudal above and below with age orientalis, 



f. Body with 6 to 9 black longitudinal bands. 



h^. Pectoral without large black medial blotch. 



f . Black longitudinal bands not inclined with age on dorsal 



flu bases or breaking into spots below. 



f. Six or 7 brown to black longitudinal bands, even, 



parallel ; vertical fins dark marginally, also 



with large dark spots ; dark bar across i)ectoral 



base diagrammus. 



;■. Seven or 8 black longitudinal bands, with third to 

 fifth with several connecting pale lines or bars ; 

 dorsal edges dusky and dark spots all along fins 

 basally; caudal with dark obUque bars on each 



half ; pectoral with dark basal spot radja. 



f. Nine black longitudinal bands, become oblique with age, 

 while lower portions break as spots and upper bars slope 

 upon dorsal basally ; upper dorsal edge dark ; all verti- 

 cal fins with numerous round black spots goldmanni. 



7^^ Pectoral with large black blotch medially ; 6 black longitudinal 

 bands, upper broader than pale interspaces and uppermost 

 on soft dorsal base; oblique black blotches or bands on 



each half of caudal lineatus. 



&'. Body without dark or black longitudinal bands in adults, sometimes 

 present in young, giving place to spots with age. 



fc*. Head immaculate ; young white, with 6 or 7 black longi- 

 tudinal bands, with age forming irregular large 



blotches on back and vertical fins gaterinus. 



k^. Spots when present extend on head. 

 V'. Lips moderately fleshy; paired fins never spotted. 

 w\ Body uniform gray or with golden spots, often 

 more or less connected spots and streaks on 

 head, body and fins, body sometimes with lighter 

 cross bars ; fins more or less blackish.__schotaf . 

 w^ Body uniform gray ; fins more or less blackish. 



chubbi. 



f. Lips broad, fleshy; young brown with several large 



white round blotches, brown areas with dark spots, 



extend over entire upper body and vertical fins 



with age, not on throat or belly chaetodonoides. 



«'. SpiLoncHTHYS. Scales 122 to 125 in lateral line; body brown, young with 

 7 broad longitudinal black bands, breaking into spots over head, body, 

 dorsal and anal with age ; paired fins and anal immaculate pictus. 



Subgenus Pseudopristipoma Sauvage 



Scales 50 to 60 in lateral line. Spinous dorsal strongly notched 

 along margin. 



PLECTORHINCHUS NIGRUS (Cuvier) 



Pristipoma nigrum (Meetens) Cuviee, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 5, 1830, p. 258. 

 Manila. — Cantoe, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 18, pt. 2, 1849, p. 1056 

 (Sea of Pinang).— GtJNTHEB, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 1859, p. 289 

 (copied). 



