82 CIREHITIDiE. 



Dorsal fin low. The upper side of the head and the anterior part of 

 the back black, the remainder hghter. Six blackish cross-bars from 

 the base of the dorsal to the sides. 

 Coasts of Chile and Pern. 



10. Chilodactylus antonii. 



Cut. (^- Val. Lx. p. 494 ; Gay, Hist. CM. Zool ii. p. 201, Atl. Ictiol. 

 lam. 5 bis, f. 2. 



Five simple pectoral rays, the longest of which exceeds the pec- 

 toral by one-sixth of its length ; the seventh dorsal spine is about the 

 longest. Body with four or five greenish cross-bands ; cheek dotted 

 with blackish. 



Coast of Chile. 



11. Chilodactylus nigripes. 



Richards. Proc. Zool Soc. 1850, p. 66, and Ann. ^~ Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 1851, vii. p. 281. 



D-i- A.^. L.lat.61. 



Five simple pectoral rays, the second of which is the longest, and 

 faUs short of the vent, while al^out one-third of its length projects 

 beyond the membrane. Dorsal fin notched ; the fifth and longest 

 dorsal spine exceeds rather more than one-thii-d of the height of the 

 body. xVn eminence above the upper angle of the orbit. Fins 

 black. {Rich.) 



King George's Sound. 



12. Chilodactylus zonatus. 



Labre du Japou, Krusenst. Seise, Atl. taf. 63. f. 1. 



CheilodactAius zonatiis, Ctii: c^ Val. v. p. 365. pi. 129 ; Faun. Japon. 



Poiss. p. "64. pi. 29 ; Richards. Ichth. aiina, p. 239, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1850, p. 66, and Ann. ^- Mag. Nat. Hist. 1851, vii. p. 282 ; Bleek. 



Verhand. Batav. Genootsch. xx\'i. Japan, p. 83. 



D. -^. A.-. L. lat. 60. L. transv. 9/16. 



31-32 8 ' 



The simple rays of the pectoral of moderate length, the longest 

 reaching to the vertical from the vent. Dorsal fin deeply notched ; 

 the anterior part of the spinous dorsal elevated ; the foiuth spine is 

 the longest, and three-fiiths of the length of the head. Brownish, 

 with several dark-bro^vn oblique cross-bands ; opercular mem- 

 brane deep black ; the soft dorsal with a blackish longitudinal band ; 

 caudal with roimd light spots edged with bro^\'nish. In very old 

 specimens a pair of tubercles on the forehead and another on the 

 snout. 



Chinese and Japanese Seas. 



a. Adult. China. Presented by J. 11. Reeves, Esq. 



