22 syUAMlPlNNES. 



blotch ; the hand has a yclknv edge anteriorly and posteriorly. 

 Yentrals brown ; the soft dorsal and anal and the caudal whitish, the 

 two latter with a fine brownish line near the margin. 

 Japan ? 



a. Adult. 



6. Adult. Old Collection. 



33. Chjetodon pi-setextatus. 

 Cant. Catal. p. 156. pi. 3. 



D _1^ A 3 



26-28* 20-22* 



The snout is moderately produced, and much longer than the dia- 

 meter of the eye ; dorsal and anal rounded posteriorly. The white 

 ground colour of the head nearly suppressed by broad black bands : 

 one round the extremity of the snout ; the second oblique, roimd the 

 snout, behind the mouth ; the third, the ocular band, broader than 

 the eye, and divided into two by a white streak above the eye ; the 

 fourth occupjing the operculum. The soft dorsal with a red, white 

 and black, the anal with a red and black margin ; a black cross-band 

 on the middle of the caudal ; ventrals black. Body imiform. 



Sea of Pinang. 



Three typical specimens, in the Collection of the East India Co. 



34. Chaetodon reticulatus. 



Ciw. ^ Vol. vii. p. 32. pi. 171 ; Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. Poiss. p. 178. 

 pi. 30. f. 2. 



D. i--. A. -. 



27 22 



The snout is very little produced, and nearly equal in length to the 

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

 angle slightly rounded. Snout black, the margin of the lips yellow ; 

 the ocular band as broad as the orbit, occupying the whole neck, and 

 extending to the root of the ventrals, which also are black. The 

 scales of the body with a brown margin. The soft dorsal and anal 

 with a yellow and black edge ; the caudal with the base blackish, 

 and with two black cross-streaks near the posterior margin. (Cuv.) 



Polynesia. 



35. Chaetodon kleinii. 



Klein, 31tss. iv. tab. 10. f. 2. 255. 



Chfetodon kleinii, £loch, tab. 218. f. 2 ; Bl. Schn. p. 225. 



virescens, Cut: ^ Val. vii. p. 30 ; Bleek. Verh. Batav. Genooisch. 



xxiii. Clicetcxlont. p. 18. 

 ilavescens, Benn. Proc. Comm. Zool. Sac. i. p. 61. 



D-^- A.j^„. L.lat.33. L. transv. 5/11. 



The snout is obtuse, and about equal in length to the diameter of 

 the eye ; prseoperculum entire ; the dorsal and anal fins rounded pos- 

 teriorly. The ocular band extends from the first dorsal spine to the 



