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middle of the caudal, and continued on the soft dorsal and anal fins, 

 where it runs parallel to, and near the margin ; ventrals whitish. 

 Atlantic coasts of Tropical America. 



a. Adult : skin. Jamaica. From Dr. Pamell's Collection. 

 h. Adult. Trinidad. Presented hy J. B. Richardson, Esq. 

 0. Adult. Puerto Cabello. Purchased of Mr. Brandt. 



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



e. Adult: stuffed. 



/. Half-grown : stuffed. 



(/. Adult : skin. From Gronov's Collection. 



20. Chaetodon quadrimaculatTis. 



Gray, Zool. Miscell. p. 33. 



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



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

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

 roanded. The ocular band begins from the nape of the neck, is as 

 broad as the orbit^ black above the -eye, yellowish, edged with brown 

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

 the ocidar band by another yellow one. The upper half of the body 

 dai-k brown, with 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. — Tj'pe of tte species. 



/3. Without a round black spot. 

 aa. Body with distinct longitudinal bands. 



21. Chaetodon meyeri. 



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



Chsetodon meyeri, Bl. Schn. p. 223 ; Cuv. ^ Val. vii. p. 19 ; Cuv. 



R^ffne Anim. HI. Poiss. pi. 37. f. 2 ; Bleek. Act. Soc. Nederl. i. Am- 



hoina, p. 37. 

 Holacanthus flavo-niger, Lacep. iv. pp. 529, 538. pi. 13. f. 2. 



D. |. A. ^. L. lat. 52. L. transv. 7/27. Vert. 10/14. 



The snout is obtuse, but longer than the diameter of the eye ; 

 prseoperculum scarcely denticulated ; the vertical fins rounded pos- 

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

 the lower lip ; the second round the snout ; th» third from the nape 

 of the neck 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 praeopercular margin, and from hence along the abdo- 

 men and the basal half of the anal ; the sixth concentric with the 



