24 SQUAMIPINNES. 



d. Adult female : skeleton. Aniboyna. Purchased of 'Mr. Frank. 



e, f. Adult : not good state. From the Haslar Collection. 

 g. Adult ; bleached. Old Collection. 



The skeleton 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 infraorbital ring is exceedingly 

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

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

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

 although narrow ; the interoperculum is subtriangular ; the ca^^ty 

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

 small foramen between the ulna and coracoid. 



38. Chaetodon fasciatus. 



Chaitodon fasciatus, Fursk. p. 69; L. Gm. p. 12(5(5; CVr. c^- Val. vii. 



p. 61. 

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



D. if. A. •^. L. lat. 3G. L. transv. G/12. Ca?c. pylor. 7. 



Vcrt.i«. 



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

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

 rior angle rounded. The ocular band crosses the upper surface of the 

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

 interoperculum ; a broad white band behind the ocular band. Eack 

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

 w^ards ; 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 margin, and a black cross-bar near the margin ; ventrals 

 whitish. 



Red Sea ; China. 



a. Adult: stuffed. Red Sea. From Dr. Kiippell's Collection. — 



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

 margin. 



b. Adult : stuffed. China. Presented by J. K, Reeves, Esq. — The 



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

 margin. 



39. Chaitodon pictus. 



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



ChiBtodon pictus, Forskal, p. (5o ; lil. Schn. p. 22G ; Cuv. Sf Val. vii. 



p. 55; Blcck. Natuurk. lydschr. Nedcrl Indie, 1851, ii. p. 177. 

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



Chaetodon decussatus, Uuv. 8f Val. vii. p. 54 ; Blcek. I. c. xiii. p. 328. 

 vagabundus, Benn. Fishes of Ceylon, pi. 7 (not L.). 



B.l?. A.i L. lat. 35. 



The snout is slightly produced, and scarcely longer than the cy(; : 



