1. CH-ETODOX. ^3 



iiiiddle of the caudal, and continued on the soft dorsal and anal tins, 

 where it runs parallel to, and near the margin ; ventrals M'hitish. 

 Atlantic coasts of Tropical America. 



«. Adult: skin. Jamaica. From Dr. Parnell's Collection. 



b. Adult. Trinidad. Presented by J. B. Richardson, Esq. 



c. Adult. Puerto Cabello. Piu'chased of Mi-. Brandt. 



d. Adult : not good state. Demerara. Presented by Dr. Smith 



e. Adult: stuffed. 



/. Half-grown: stuffed. 



g. Adult : skin. From Gronov's Collection. 



20. Chaetodon quadrimaculatus. 



Gray, Zool. Ifkcell. p. .33. 



D. |. A. ^. L. lat. 40. L. transv. 8/17. 



The snout is very sHghtly produced, and scarcely longer than the 

 diameter of the eye ; the dorsal and anal fins with the posterior angle 

 rounded. The ocular band begins fi-om the nape of the neck is'^as 

 broad as the orbit, black above the eye, yeUowish, edged vrith brown 

 beneath. The dark brown coloration of the back is separated from 

 the ocular band by another yeUow one. The upper half of the body 

 dai-k brown, ^^'ith two white blotches on each side, one below the 

 middle of the spinous dorsal, the other below the middle of the soft. 

 The soft dorsal and anal with a brown-edged inframarginal stripe • 

 ventrals and caudal yellowish. ' 



Sandwich Islands. 



a. Adult : skin : not good state. Sandwich Islands. From the 

 Collection of the Zoological Society.— Type of the species. 



p. Without a roimd black spot. 

 aa. Body with distinct longitudinal bands. 



21. ChgBtodon meyeri. 



Valent. iii. p. 455. f. 347 ; Renarcl, i. 25. 135. 



Chfetodon meyeri, Bl. Schn. p. 223 ; Cuv. ^- Veil. vii. p. 19 • Cuv 



lieffiw Antm. HI. Poiss. pi. 37. f. 2 ; Bleek. Act. Soc. Nerlerl. i. Am- 



hoina, p. 37. 

 Holacanthus flavo-niger, L(tcep. iv. pp. 529, 538. pi. 13. £ 2. 



^- i- ^- To- ^- lat. 52. L. transv. 7/27. Vert. 10/14. 

 The snout is obtuse, but longer than the diameter of the eve • 

 prffioperculum scarcely denticulated; the vertical fins rounded p'os- 

 tenoriy. Body, head, and fins with curved black stripes : one across 

 the lower Up ; the second round the snout ; the third fi-om the nape 

 of the ne<;k through the eye to the base of the ventrals : these stripes 

 are yellow-edged ; the fourth from the first dorsal spine to the supra- 

 scapula ; the fifth along the upper margin of the dorsal, bent down- 

 wards to the prffiopercular margin, and from hence along the abdo- 

 men and the basal half of the anal : the sLxth concentric with the 



