350 SPOTTED CH^ITODON. 



fin resembling those of the generality of fishes. 

 Native of China. 



SPOTTED CELETODON. 



Chaetodon Macula tus. C.flavus, corpore oblongo-ovato tongitu- 

 dinaliter fusco maculato,fasciisque pallidioribusfuscis. 



Yellow Chaetodon, with oblong-ovate body, spotted longi- 

 tudinally with brown, and crossed with bands of paler 

 brown. 



Chaetodon maculatus. Block, t. 42;. /. 2. 



SHAPE oblong-ovate, and in habit resembling 

 some of the Carp tribe : colour yellow, marked by 

 a longitudinal row of five or six large round brown 

 spots, some of those on the fore and hind part of 

 the body being partly obscured by a transverse bar 

 or cloud of a similar colour passing over each : the 

 middle spot is larger than the rest, and has no ac- 

 companying bar : the gill covers are smooth and 

 scaly, the fins simple and of a bright yellow : the 

 scales on the body are of moderate size : the tail 

 rather large, and nearly even at the end, though 

 perhaps, a very little inclining to a lunated shape. 

 Native of India and South America, inhabiting 

 fresh waters. 



