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high, higher than the posterior spines, the longest rays about $- head 5 anal 

 similar to soft dorsal, its second spine stouter than third, and about equal 

 to it in length, about % length of head ; caudal fin somewhat rounded, 1-J- 

 in head; ventrals not quite reaching anal; pectorals still shorter. Scales 

 of moderate size, the soft parts of the vertical fins less scaly than usual; 

 lateral line running very high and ceasing abruptly under first ray of soft 

 dorsal. Color in spirits, light yellowish, with 2 oblique jet-black cross 

 bands, and no other spots or ocelli, first baud involving first and second 

 dorsal spines, then extending downward and forward, close behind the 

 line of the profile and across the eye and across the cheek, where it is 

 fainter; this baud a little narrower than the eye; the second baud more 

 than twice as broad as the first, beginning abruptly Avith nearly all the 

 membrane of the fourth and fifth dorsal spines, covering the fifth spine 

 from its base to near its tip ; the posterior border of the black band 

 extending from near the tip of the fourth spine in a straight line across 

 the dorsal fin and the body to near the base of the last anal ray ; the 

 anterior margin runs in a slightly concave line from the base of the fourth 

 spine to the middle of the base of -the anal; the lower border follows the 

 base of the anal fin without including any of it; this baud broadest on 

 the dorsal fin and gradually narrows downward; middle line of forehead 

 with a dusky shade ; no dark on soft dorsal, caudal, caudal peduncle, anal, 

 pectorals, ventrals, or opercles. Gulf of Mexico, in rather deep water; the 

 type 1-| inches long, taken from the stomach of Neomamls ay a on the 

 Snapper Banks, (aya, specific name of the fish (Neomcunis aya) in. whose 

 stomach the type specimen was found.) 



Chcetodon aya, JORDAN, Proc.U. S.]S T at.Mus. 1886, 225, Snapper Banks, near Pensacola, 

 Florida (Type, No. 37747. Coll. Jordan & Stearns) ; EIGENMANN & HORNING, I. c., 8, 

 1887. 



2090. CHjETODON AT^NIATUS (Poey). 



Body oval, the depth 2 in total length; eye 3| in head (3 in young 

 of 1 inch) ; scales not in series, having contrary directions as in Chcetodon 

 capistratus; scales in lateral line 35, the series ending at end of dorsal. 

 Color steel gray; fins yellowish; ocular band present, but 110 other cross 

 bands; below end of lateral line and above middle of caudal peduncle a 

 black ocellus smaller than in Chcetodon capistratus. Havana (Poey) ; known 

 from one very young specimen, unless Chcvtodon unicolor is the same spe- 

 cies, as is probable, (a-, without; ratria, ribbon or band.) 



Sarothrodus atceniatus, POEY, Synopsis, 353, 1868, Havana. 



; Chcetodon unicolor, * SAUVAGE, Bull. Sci. Philom., iv, 222, 1880, Martinique. (Coll. Belan- 

 ger.) 



* The following is the original description of Chcetodon unicolor : D. XIII, 1 9 ; A. Ill, 15 ; 

 lat. 40. Hauteur du corps conteime deux fois dans la longueur. Museau pointu, un peu 

 plus long que le diametre de 1'oeil ; preopercule dentele. Corps de coleur brune uniforme, 

 rembrum sur le dos ; une bande oculaire etroite ; extremite de la dorsale molle et de Tan- 

 ale de couleur claire; ventrales griscttres. Longeur 08 

 (unicolor, one-colored.) 



