FISHES OF NEW YORK G05 



Sarothrodus maculocinctus GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 99, 1861, New- 

 port R. I.; young. 



CJiaetodon maculocinctus JORDAN & GILBERT, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 616, 

 1883; BEAN, Bull. U. S. F. C. VII, 138, pi. I, fig. 4, 1888. 



Body subovate, strongly compressed; greatest depth three 

 fifths to two thirds of total length without caudal; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle about one third length of head. Head two 

 fifths of total without caudal; the upper profile concave except 

 for a slight protuberance over eyes; snout equals five sixths 

 diameter of eye, which is one third as long as the head; the 

 maxilla reaches to below the anterior nostril, its length equal to 

 length of snout; lower jaw somewhat produced; suborbital bone 

 one half as wide as the eye. First dorsal spine one fourth a 

 long as the head; second spine about one half as long as head* 

 third and fourth spines longest, as long as the head without the 

 snout; last spine two fifths as long as head; longest soft ray 

 one half as long as the head. Anal fin under the posterior half 

 of the dorsal; the first spine as long as the snout; the second 

 longest, nearly one half as long as the head; the third nearly 

 as long as the second; the longest ray as long as the second 

 spine; the base of the fin equals one third of total length with- 

 out caudal. Caudal rounded, the middle rays one half as long 

 as the head. Pectoral reaching to below the 10th spine of the 

 dorsal, as long as the head without the snout. Ventral reach- 

 ing to the second anal spine, four fifths as long as the head. 



D. XII or XIII, 18 to 20; A. Ill, 16 to 18; V. I, 5. Scales 8-45 

 to 50-20. 



Color golden gray, sometimes yellow or orange; a large, 

 oblong, dark blotch on base of soft dorsal extended downward 

 by a black band crossing the body and continuing faintly upon 

 the base of the anal; a dark band from the origin of the dorsal 

 through the eye and extending downward across the cheek. 

 The bands are nowhere more than one half as wide as the eye. 



The parche belongs to the West Indian fauna; it is common 

 at Havana, and the young follow the Gulf Stream northward in 

 summer to New Jersey, Long Island, Rhode Island, and Cape 

 Cod. In the vicinity of Woods Hole Mass, according to Dr 



