1678 Bulletin 4.7, United States National Museum. 



on each edge, the one on caudal most distinct; the edges of vertical fins 

 abruptly pale. Length 6 inches. West Indies, generally common; our 

 specimens examined from Havana. A most beautiful little fish, (capi- 

 st rat us, wearing a bridle or headdress.) 



Chcetodon capistratus, LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat.. Ed. x, 275, 1758, India; on a specimen in Mus. 

 Adolph-Frederici ; CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vn, 64, 1831; GUNTHER, 

 Cat., n, 12, I860; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 940, 1883; EIGENMANN & HORNING, I. c. 

 9, 1887. 



Sarothrodus capixtratus, POEY, Enumeratio, 62, 1875. 



2093. CHjETODON BRICEI, H. M. Smith. 



Head about 3; depth 1^ ; eye large, 2 in head. D. XIII, 20; A. Ill, 18; 

 scales 6-40-17. Body short, deep, and much compressed ; profile steep, 

 slightly convex; head rather large, pointed; mouth small, terminal; snout 

 not produced, length of eye ; lateral line beginning at posterior edge of 

 eye, curving upward and backward, and terminating under anterior part 

 of soft dorsal fin; scales large, the rows above longitudinal axis of 

 body directed upward and backward, those below inclined slightly down- 

 ward. Caudal peduncle very short, about as broad as eye. Dorsal long, 

 elevated, the longest spine f length of head; soft dorsal evenly rounded; 

 basal half of both portions of fin thickly covered with small scales ; dor- 

 sal origin opposite posterior edge of opercle; anal fin deep, long, rounded, 

 the proximal f- of soft portion deiisely squamated, the small scales also 

 covering the bases of second and third spines; caudal short, rounded ; 

 pectorals f length of head, rounded ; ventrals as long as pectorals, pointed. 

 Colors in life : General body color, pearly gray ; a glistening jet-black band 

 about f width of eye and having a forward curve beginning a short dis- 

 tance in front of dorsal and extending downward through eye and thence 

 downward and backward to lower margin of gill opening ; this not 

 extending on breast and hence not meeting its fellow of the opposite 

 side; above eye this stripe is bordered on each side by a very narrow pale 

 streak ; a dull blackish band, 1 times as wide as eye, running vertically 

 across body from base of dorsal to median line of abdomen ; the anterior 

 border of this band extending from front of dorsal to posterior angle of 

 opercle, thence obliquely downward and backward behind base of pectoral ; 

 behind this band and separated from it by a space somewhat wider than 

 eye is another dark band, duller and f wider, with its anterior edge curved 

 forward and its posterior margin on the caudal peduncle; involving about 

 f- width of this band, and extending from dorsal to ventral edge of body 

 is a large, circular ocellus, more than 1| times eye, consisting of a dark- 

 blue spot surrounded by a narrow white zone, which covers a part of the 

 base of the soft dorsal; immediately above this, and within the extension 

 on the dorsal fin of the dark band, is another 'similar but smaller ocellus, 

 about the size of eye, involving first 8 or 9 rays of soft dorsal; a narrow 

 dark-brown vertical bar on caudal peduncle, separated from base of caudal 

 rays and from that part of the broad body band posterior to the ocellus by 

 narrow white spaces; head in front of ocular stripes, and breast, greenish 

 yellow; a black crescentic mark on opercle; spiiious dorsal dusky, the 



