CHINESE CH^TODON. 549 



broad transverse black bars, the first of which 

 crosses the head, the second the middle, and the 

 third the hind-part : both these latter bars pass 

 through the dorsal and anal fin as well as the body : 

 the ventral fins are black : the scales on the body 

 are rather large than small, and the gill-covers are 

 destitute of spines. Native of the Indian and 

 Arabian seas. 



In the Museum Adolphi Friderici this species is 

 named arcuatus, but as the author had before de- 

 scribed a different species under that name, it is to 

 be presumed, according to the opinion of Dr. 

 Bloch, that aruanus is the true reading. Perhaps 

 from the Aroo islands among the Moluccas. 



CHINESE CH^ETODON. 



Chsetodon Chinensis. C. albo-flircescens, corpore oblongo,fasciis 



pluribus fuscis , macula operculorum rotunda. 

 Yellowish-white Chsetodon, with oblong body crossed by 



several brown stripes, and a round spot on the gill-covers. 

 Chaetodon Chinensis. Block. t.2l8.f. 1. 



BODY oblong, and the whole habit more re- 

 gembling that of the generality of fishes than of 

 the major part of the Chsetodons : colour dull 

 yellowish white, brownish towards the back, and 

 transversely barred from head to tail with several 

 deep-brown stripes, some of which appear double : 

 on the gill-cover a large round spot, and behind 

 the eyes two small longitudinal streaks of the same 

 colour : scales moderately large : dorsal and anal 



