Sm'AJIiriNNES. 



edge posteriorly ; caudal with a black baud across the middle, the 

 margin being transparent ; veutrals white. 

 Seas of Guam and Batoe. 



4. Chsetodon leachii. 



Chsetodon leachii, Cuv. Sc Val. vii. p. 49. 

 Megaprotodon leachii, Guichen. I. c. 



The snout is shorter than the diameter of the eye ; the dorsal and 

 anal angular posteriorly ; the former reaches as far backwards as the 

 caudal, the fifth ray being the most elongate. Ocular band white- 

 edged. {Cm'.) 



Hub. ? 



2. With three anal spines. 

 a. One or more of the dorsal rays elongate. 



5. Chsetodon setifer. 



Renard, i. p. 39. f. 198, ii. pi. 31. f. 145 ; Valent. iii. p. 385. f. 116 ; 



Seba, iii. t. 25. f. 11. 

 Chc^todon setifer, Bl. t. 426. f 1 ; Bl. Schn. p. 225 ; Cuv. ^ Val. \-ii. 



p. 76 ; Guerin, Iconogr. Puiss. pi. 22. f. 1 ; Less. Voij. Coq. Zool. ii. 



p. 175, Poiss. pi. 29. f. 2 ; Richards. Ichth. China, p. 246 ; Cuv. 



Rh/ne Anim. III. Poiss. pi. 38. f. 1 ; Jenyns, Zool. Beagle, Fishes, 



p. 61. 

 Pomaeeutrus filamentosus, Lacep. iv. pp. 506, 511. 

 Chajtodou sebaniis. Cue. i5|'- Val. vii. p. 74. 



auriga, var., Riijjp. iV". W. Fiscfte, p. 28. 



luuaris, Groiiov. Sgst. ed. Gray, p. 70. 



auriga, Bleek. Celebes, iv. p. 164. 



D. |. A. ^. L. lat. 33. L. transv. 6/13. 



Snout produced, pointed, conical, one-half longer than the dia- 

 meter of the eye ; praeoperculum very indistinctly serrated. The 

 fifth dorsal ray more or less elongate, filiform. The ocular band 

 extends over the interoperculum, is narrower above the orbit and 

 wider below. The anterior part of the back with blackish streaks 

 obliquelj' descending forwards; the rest of the body with streaks 

 obliquely ascending forwards. Top of the dorsal behind the fifth 

 ray with a round black, white-edged spot. The vertical fins with 

 a very fine blackish marginal line ; ventrals whitish. 



From the Eed Sea thi-ough all the Indian Seas to Polynesia. 



«. Adult, Isle de France. 



h. Adrdt. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



c. Adult. China. Presented by Captain Sir E. Belcher. 



(I. Adult. China. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



c. Adult : not good state. 



/. Adult. Anciteum. Presented by the Lords of the Achnii'alty. 



