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TRICOLOR CH^TODON, 



Chsetodon Tricolor. C. antlce flavus, postice niger, cauda 



marginibusque pinna-rum rubris. 

 Yellow Ohaetodon with the hind-part black, the tail and fin* 



bordered with red. 

 Chsetodon tricolor. Block, t. 425. 



A HIGHLY superb species, and remarkable for the 

 singular disposition of its colours : general shape 

 resembling that of the golden, angel, and ciliated 

 Chsetodons, but longer in proportion : colour of 

 the fore-part golden-yellow, of the hindrpart, ex- 

 cept the tail, jet-black, the two colours abruptly 

 separated, in an oblique direction : edges of the 

 gill-covers and of all the fins bright red : tail yellow, 

 growing red towards the end, and terminating in 

 pretty long tips, but not deeply divided in the 

 middle : scales rather large : falcatures of the 

 dorsal and anal fin not reaching to the tips of the 

 tail : at the gill-covers a very large, long spine : 

 mouth surrounded by a black zone. Native of the 

 Indian and American seas ; length about a foot* 



