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. STRIPED CRETODON. 



Chaetodon Striatus. C. albidus, corpore subrotundo-ovato, tincis 

 longitudinalibus &ubfuscis t fascmque quqtuor tramversis fuscis. 



Whitish Chaetodon, with roundish body, marked by several 

 longitudinal dusky lines, and by four transverse dusky bars. 



Chaetodon striatus. Lin. Gmel. Block, t. 1249. 



SHAPE roundish ovate : colour whitish, tinged with 

 yellowish brown on the upper parts, and marked 

 by four distant brown bands, the narrowest of which 

 runs on each side the head, passing through the eyes 

 to the breast ; the two next, which are much broader, 

 pass, at nearly equal distances, across the body, and 

 the third crosses the setting on of the tail : the pec- 

 toral and ventral fins are of a deep brown, and the 

 dorsal, anal fin, and tail, are deeply edged with the 

 same colour : the body is covered with scales of mo- 

 derate size, and is marked by several narrow longi- 

 tudinal dusky streaks between the rows of scales. 

 Native of the Indian and American seas. 



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DIVIDED CHAETODON. 



Chaetodon Bicolor. C. corpore oblongo-ovato, dimidio antic9 

 lacteoj posticofusco. 



Chaetodon with oblong-ovate body, the anterior half milk- 

 white, the posterior brown. 



Chaetodon bicolor. Lin. Block, t. 205. 



A SPECIES of moderate, or rather smallish size, and 

 asily distinguishable by the remarkable distribution 



