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blackish band; a transverse band between the eyes, much narrower than 

 eye ; a band between dorsal fin and interorbital area, descending to tem- 

 ples and bordered with whitish ; another across dorsal fin, caudal peduncle, 

 and near margin of anal, the anterior margin of which extends from the 

 base of the anterior soft rays to axilla of anal fin ; caudal, produced part 

 of dorsal, margin of anal, and all of pectoral and ventral fins pale. Cape 

 San Lucas; only the original types known, (niger, black ; rostrum, beak.) 



Sarothrodus nigrirostris, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1862, 243, Cape San Lucas. Coll. 



Xantus.) 

 Chcetodon nigrirostris, JOKDAN & GILBERT, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 365 ; EIGENMANN & 



HORNING, I. c., 7, 1887. 



2086. CH/ETODON OCELLATUS, Bloch. 



(PARCHE; ISABELITA DE LA ALTO.) 



Head 3; depth 1|. D. XII or XIII, 20; A. Ill, 16; scales 6-34-15, 31 in 

 a median series. Body subrhomboidal, the anterior profile concave; snout 

 somewhat produced, longer than eye in adult; lateral line extending to 

 below posterior third of soft dorsal ; dorsal and anal fins angulated behind. 

 Color golden gray ; a large nonocellated black spot on base of soft dorsal, 

 an indistinct band extending vertically from this spot to base of anal ; a 

 small black spot on tip of soft dorsal (not present in young) ; ocular band 

 narrower than eye, extending from in front of dorsal through eye and 

 over interopercle ; no humeral band; a black spot on opercle above. West 

 Indian fauna ; common at Havana, the young straying northward in the 

 Gulf Stream to New Jersey and Rhode Island, (ocellatus, with eye-like 

 spots.) 



Chcetodon ocellatus, BLOCK, Ichthologia, pi. 211, fig. 2, 1787. 



Chcetodon bimaculatus, BLOCK, Iclithologia, pi. 219, fig. 1, 1790; CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, 



Hist. Nat. Poiss., vn, 67, 1831; POEY, Memorias, II, 371, I860; GUNTHER, Cat,, n, 9, I860; 



JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 940, 1883. 



Sarothrodusmaculocinctus* GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1861, 99, Newport, R. I.; young. 

 Sarothrodus amplexicollis, POEY, Enumeratio, 63, 1875, Cuba; young. 

 Ohcetodon maculocinctus, JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 616, 1883. 

 Chcetodon ocellatus, EIGENMANN & HORNING, L c., 7, 1887. 



2087. CHCETODON HUMERALIS, Giinther 



(MUNECA; DOLLFI8H.) 



Head 3; depth 1; eye 3. D. XIII, 20; A. Ill, 17; scales 6-30-17. Body 

 deep, the back elevated, the profile steep and slightly concave or straight; 

 snout very slightly produced, shorter than eye. Scales rather large; all 



* Chcetodon maculocinctus (GiLL). Head 2|; depth 1. D. XII, 19; A, III, 17. Body 

 suborbicular, closely compressed; profile steep, concave, the short snout projecting; 

 mouth very small, maxillary not reaching the vertical from the anterior nostril; caudal 

 peduncle very short ; lateral line beginning at upper angle of opercle, running obliquely 

 upward to opposite the base of soft dorsal and then decurved, ending opposite extremity 

 ot soft dorsal. Olivaceous, darker above; a dark-brown band from beginning of dorsal 

 nn obliquely forward through eye and across the cheeks; a second bar beginning in a 

 blotch on soft dorsal, runs vertically across the body. Atlantic coast in the Gulf Stf earn ; 

 doubtless the young of Chcetodon ocellatus. 



