SQUAMIPINNES. 



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

 mai'gin being transimrent ; ventrals white. 

 Seas of Guam and Batoe. 



4. Chaetodon leachii. 



Chsetodon leachii, Cuv. 8f Val. vii. p. 49. 

 Megaprotodon leachii, Guichen. I. c. 



-U. jg. A. jg. 



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. (Cuv.) 



Hah. -? 



2. With three anal spines. 

 a. One or more of the dorsal rays elongate. 



5. Chaetodon setifer. 



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



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

 Chaetodon setifer, Bl. t. 426. f. 1 ; Bl. Sclm. p. 225 ; Cuv. ^- Val. vii. 



p. 76 ; Cruerin, Iconogr. Poiss. pi. 22. f. 1 ; Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. ii. 



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



liegne Anim. III. Poiss. pi. 38. f. 1 ; Jemjns, Zool. Beagle, Fishes, 



p. 61. 

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

 Chaetodon sebanus, Cuv. 8c Val. vii. p. /4. 



auriga, var., Ri'qyp. N. IV. Fische, p. 28. 



lunaris, Gronov. Sgst. cd. 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 ; pra^operculum 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 

 obliquely 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 Red Sea through all the Indian Seas to Polynesia. 



a. Adult. Isle de France. 



b. Adult. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



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



d. Adult. China. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



e. Adult : not good state. 



. Adult. Aneiteum. Presented by the Lords of the Admiralty. 



