CONSTRICTED 



of moderate size, and slightly lunated : gill-covers 

 without spine. Native of the American seas, where 

 it arrives at a considerable size. 



CONSTRICTED CH^TODON. 



Cliaetodon Constrictus. C. griseo-Jlavescens, nigro trattwersim 



fasciatus, corpore ntedio const ricto. 

 Yellowish-grey Chsetodon, with transverse black bands and 



body constricted in the middle. 

 Chaetodon constrictus. Nw Holl. zool. p.lj.t.6. 



LENGTH about eight inches : shape of the body 

 inclining to an oblong square, and remarkably con- 

 tracting in diameter about the middle, so as to 

 appear constricted in that part : scales of moderate 

 size : colour yellowish grey, tinged on the back 

 and part of the fins with blue: across the body 

 eight black bands, that in the middle narrowest : 

 on the back two very distinct fins, the rays of the 

 first being all spiny: tail inclining, though very 

 slightly, to a lunated form. Native of the Indian 

 seas, and observed about the coasts of New Holland. 



