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CHjETODONTOID SPARUS. 



Sparus Chaetodontoides. S , niaculis magnis albis 



fusco-punctatis, labiis cxtcnsilibus carnosis. 

 Sparus, with large white spots speckled with brown, 



and with extensile, fleshy lips. 

 Lutian chsetodonoide. Cepcde. 4. p. 290. 



THIS species, says Cepede, exhibits on its whole 

 surface large white patches marked either by one 

 or more small dark spots, and is described from an 

 individual in the National Museum of France. 



This fish seems in some degree allied to the 

 Chretodon plectorynchus, before described by the 

 same author. 



TWO-SPINED SPARUS. 



Sparus Diacanthus. S , corpora pinnisque fwco- 



punctulatis pinna anali biaculeata. 

 Sparus, freckled on the body and fins with dusky 



specks j the caudal fin biaculeated. 

 Lutian diacanthe. Cepede. 4. p. 240. 



DESCRIBED by Cepede from a dried specimen in 

 the Prince of Orange's museum : teeth rather large, 

 curved, and distant ; with smaller behind : dorsal 

 fin with eleven spiny and twenty-two soft rays : 

 anal with two spiny and seven soft : pectoral with 

 nineteen rays : ventral with one spiny and five 

 soft : tail with eighteen rays. 



