Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1677 



2091. CHJETODON STRIATUS, Linnaeus. 



(BUTTERFLY.) 



Head 3 ; depth U ; eye 3f . D. XII or XI, 21 ; A. Ill, 8 ; scales 8-40-16. Body 

 ovate, compressed, the anterior profile somewhat concave. Soft dorsal and 

 anal somewhat angulate behind; snout little produced, very little longer 

 than eye. Series of scales above lateral line running upward and back- 

 ward, less straight than in Chwtodon capistratus, above and below with a 

 continuous black streak, which is conspicuous, the streaks somewhat 

 undulate, eon verging backward. Series of scales below axis of body run- 

 ning downward and backward, more nearly horizontal than in Chcetodon 

 capislratus. Side whitish, with narrow dark lines between the rows of 

 scales; a black stripe from occiput through eye to lower side of head; a 

 broad, dusky band from anterior part of dorsal across sides behind pectoral 

 and ventral, not hiding the longitudinal markings; another similar one 

 from posterior part of spiuous dorsal to and across middle of anal ; an olive 

 band across caudal peduncle and fins adjacent; soft dorsal and anal light 

 at base, a broad olive band through middle, this edged with black, the tips 

 narrowly yellowish ; caudal similar, but with an additional colorless mar- 

 gin; olive mottlings at base of caudal; pectoral colorless; ventral plain, 

 dusky, lighter at base; sometimes a large, ill-defined, rosy blotch behind 

 pert .oral. West Indies to Brazil, rather common ; our specimen from Bahia. 

 (striatus, striped.) 



Chcetodon macrolepidoius, lineis ulrinque tribus nigris latii, ARTEDI, Synopsis, 95, 1738; no 



locality. 

 Labrus rostro reflexo fasciis lateralibus tribus fuscis, LINN^US, Amren. Ac., r, 595, 1749; after 



ARTEDI. 

 Chcetodon striatus, LINN^US, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 275, 1758, India (after Chcetodon macrolepi- 



dotus, etc., ARTEDI) ; CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VH, 10, 1831; POEY, 



Memorias, n, 371 ; 1860 ; GUNTHER, Cat., n, 8, 1860 ; EIGENMANN & HORNING, I c., 8, 1887. 

 Sarothrodus striatus, POEY, Synopsis, 352, 1868. 



Subgenus CHCETODON. 

 2092. CHJCTODON CAPISTRATUS, Linnasus. 



(PARCHE.) 



Head 3J; depth If. D. XIII (or XII), 19; A. Ill, 17; scales 6-42-17. 

 Body not very deep, the back moderately elevated, the anterior profile 

 somewhat concave; snout somewhat produced, as long as the eye; soft 

 dorsal and anal fins angulated behind; dorsal spines rather slender; 

 scales rather large, their arrangement peculiar, those above the level of 

 the upper part of the eye placed in straight series which run upward and 

 backward, those below this line in series running similarly downward and 

 backward, each series of scales being sharply marked by a continuous 

 blackish streak on the skin underneath the scales. Ocular band black, 

 edged on both sides with white, much narrower than eye, and extending 

 across eye and cheek, the 2 meeting on the nape; a very large jet-black 

 spot, i broader than eye, broadly ocellated with whitish on body below 

 soft dorsal; soft anal and caudal each with a brown band becoming black 



