32 SQTJAMIPINNES. 



angularly bent, with the angle pointing foi-wards. Head red, witli a 

 black, white-edged ocnlar band. Tlie posterior part of the body, 

 inchiding the soft dorsal and anal and the caudal fins, is black, the 

 extremity of the caudal whitish ; sometimes a white-edged spot of a 

 deeper black at the root of the caudal. 

 Kcd boa. 



56. Chaetodon tau-uigrum. 

 Cuv. 8f Val. vii. p. 38. 



D. ^. A. ^. 



21 2C 



The snout is short, obtuse, and ccfuals in length the diameter of 

 the eye. Body with blackish longitudinal streaks. Ocular l)and 

 narrow ; a black vertical streak between the extremities of the dorsal 

 and anal fins, to which is joined a black triangle, the whole forming 

 a mark like a T. Fins pale. (Cuv.) 



Sea of Guam. 



57. Chaetodon blackb.urni. 



Jienard, f. 22. n. 121 (bad). 



Chiotodoii blackbuini, Desjard. Compt. Rend. Soc. Hid. Nat. He de 

 France ; Cuv. Rbyne Anim. III. Pom. pi. 87. f. 8. 



D. r- A. f„. L. lat. 43. L. transv. 7/18. 



The snout is slightly produced, and longer than the diameter of 

 the eye ; pra)opcrculum indistinctly denticulated. The anterior 

 dorsal spines are rather low, the length of the third being equal to 

 that of tlic snout ; tlie dorsal and anal fins posteriorly with an obtuse 

 angle. The anterior portion of the body is light-coloured, with a 

 brownish-black ocular band, narrower than the eye ; the soft dorsal 

 and anal fins, and the tail between, are brownish-black, the colour 

 becoming deeper posteiiorly. Six narrow dark stripes descend 

 obliquely forwards towards the head and belly ; pectoral, ventral, and 

 caudal fins colourless (in spirits). 



Sea of lie do France. 



a. Adult. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



58. Chaetodon nignnipinnis. 

 Peters in Wiegm. Archiv, 1865, p. 24C. 



The snout is pointed, prominent. Yellow, with a black ocular 

 band and seven or eight })lack transverse stripes ; the soft dorsal 

 and anal, and the tail between, black ; dorsal and anal with a yellow- 

 ish margin. (Pet.) 



Mozambi(]ue. 



