608 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.xxiv. 
c?eca 3. Lower pharyngeals triangular. Species numerous; often 
brightly colored; about coral reefs in the tropical seas. We exclude 
from this genus all species with rounded, biserial teeth. 
{y\v(}>ig^ notch, of an arrow; odov;, tooth.) 
a. Axil of dorsal without black blotch or ocellus. 
h. Body with 5 distinct black cross bands, the fourth under front of soft dorsal; 
depth 1| in length; dorsa. rays XIII, 13; anal II, 12; scales 26 saxatUis, 9. 
bb. Body with 8 dark cross bands; depth about 1| in length; dorsal rays XIII, 
13; anal II, 13; scales 27 curacao, 10. 
aa. Axil of soft dorsal with a large black ocellus, persistent as a black blotch on 
caudal peduncle at all ages; body with about 5 narrow vertical silvery bands; 
depth 1| in length; dorsal rays XIII, 16; anal II, 16; scales 28.. sordidus, 11. 
g. GLYPHISODON SAXATILIS (Linnaeus). 
OYABITSUCHIYA.i 
Chsetodon saxatilis Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1758, p. 276 (after Chsetodon 
Cauda bifurca, fasdis 5, albis, Mus. Adolph. Fred., I, p. 64); India. — For- 
skAl, Descr. Anini., 1775, p. 62; Red Sea, and of the earliest copyists; not 
Glyphidodon saxatilis of most writers, the name having been wrongly trans- 
ferred to an American species, Glyphlsodon marginatus (Bloch). 
Glyph isodon saxatilis Jordan and Snyder, Fishes of Formosa MS.; Keerun, For- 
mosa. 
Chsetodon rotundus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., I, 1758, p. 277 (after Chxtodon 
rotundatus cinereus fasciis 5) ; India. 
Labrus sexfasciatus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., Ill, 1802, p. 477; pi. xix, fig. 2; 
Indian Ocean. 
Abudefdiif sexfasciatus Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1900, p. 755; 
Shimoda, Misaki." 
Chsetodon tyrwhitti Bennett, Fishes of Ceylon, 1833-1841, pi. xxv; Ceylon. — 
Richardson, Ichth. China, 1846, p. 253; Canton. 
Glyphisodon umgiensis Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie Poiss., 1824, p. 391; 
Waigion, Rauwak. — Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1830, 
p. 457 (fourth band under middle of soft dorsal, fifth on middle of caudal 
peduncle; body deep). . 
Glyphisodon rahti Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Poiss., V, 1830, p. 456; IX, 
p. 507; Red Sea, Java, Celebes, New Guinea. (Caudal without dark shades. ) 
Glyphisodon ca;lestinus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1830, 
p. 464; IX, p. 508; He de France, Malabar, Alietea. (Caudal with a dark 
band along each lobe.) — Richardson, Ichth. China, 1846, p. 253. — Gill, 
Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, p. 147; Shimoda, Canton.— GtJNTHER, Cat. 
Fish., IV, 1862, p. 38; Hongkong, Pinang, China, Amboyna, India. — Day, 
Fish. India, p. 386, pi. lxxxiii, fig. 2. — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Pomac, p. 408, 
pi. IX, fig. 5.— Bleeker, HoU. Maatsch. Wet., 1877, p. 101; Sumatra, Java, 
Singapore, Flores, New Guinea, Luzon, etc. — Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, 
p. 31; Riukiu. 
Glyphidodon saxatilis var. coelestinus GCnther, Fische. Siidsee, 1876, p. 229, pi. 
XXVI ; Tahiti, etc. 
Glyphisodon quadrifascialus Bleeker, Labr. Cten., p. 17. 
Head 2^\ in length; depth If; depth of the caudal peduncle 5i; eye 
2f in head; snout 3i; interorbital space 2f ; D. XIII, 12; A. II, 12; 
^ Name of some person; its application not explained. 
