24 SliUAMIPJNNES. 



(/. Adult female : skeleton. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 

 <', /. Adiilt : not good state. From the Haslar Collection. 

 g. Adidt ; bleached. Old Collection. 



The sMeton differs from that of Chcetodon meyeri in the following 

 points : — The angular bone of the mandibula is larger than the den- 

 tary ; the orbital margin of the anterior frontals shows no serrature 

 whatever ; the posterior portion of the iafraorbital ring is exceedingly 

 narrow, and separated from the inner ridge of the prfeoperculum by 

 a slight interspace ; the length of the inferior pra3opercidar limb is 

 more than one-half of the posterior ; the subopcrculnm is elongate, 

 althoiigh narrow ; the interopcrenlum is subtriangiilar ; the cavity 

 for the pectoral muscles is broad and deep, and there is only a veiy 

 small foramen between the ulna and coracoid. 



38. Chsetodon fasciatus. 



Chffitodon fasciatus, Forsk. p. 59; L. Gm. p. 1266; Cuv. i)- Val. vii. 



p. 61. 

 flavus, Bl, Schn. p. 225 ; Riipp. Atlas, Fische, p. 40. taf. 9. f. 1. 



D. i?. A. ^. L. lat. 36. L. transv. 6/12. Caec. pylor. 7. 



25 19 ! i-j 



Vert.i^. 



The snout is produced, conical, longer than the diameter of the 

 eye ; praeopereulum entire ; the dorsal and anal fins with the poste- 

 rior angle rounded. The ocular band crosses the iipper siu-face of the 

 head above the eyes, and is not continued to the neck or to the 

 interoperculum ; a broad white band beliind the ocular band. Hack 

 blackish-brown ; body with blackish bands obliquely descending for- 

 wards ; the soft dorsal and anal are margined with black, and the 

 former has a blackish band besides, near its base ; the caudal with 

 a light margiu, and a black cross-l>ar near the margin ; ventrals 

 whitish. 



Red Sea ; China. 



a. Adult: stuifed. Red Sea. From Dr. lliippoU's Collection. — 



The cross-bar on the caudal is nearly as broad as the light 



margin. 

 h. Adult : stuffed. China. Presented by J. 11. lleeves, Esq. — The 



cross-bar on the caudal is nearly twice as broad as the light 



margin. 



39. Chaetodon pictus. 



? Klein, Hist. Pise. iv. t. 9. f. 2. 



Chfetodon pictus, Forskal, p. 65 ; Bl. Sehn. p. 226 ; Cnv. Sf Val. \\\. 



p. 55 ; Bleek. Natimrk. Tydschr. Nederl. Indie, 1851, ii. p. 177. 

 Rmsell, i. pi. 87, (var.) pi. 83. 



Chsetodon decussatus. Cur. Sf- Val. vii. p. 54 ; Bkek. I. c. xiii. p. 328. 

 vagabimdus, Ben7i. Fishes of Ceylon, pi. 7 (not L.). 



D. i?. A. i. L. lat. 35. 



The snout is slightly produced, and scarcely longer than the eye ; 



