130 WHERE, WHEN, AND HOW TO CATCH FISH 



Spade-fish ; 

 Angel-fish. 



136. "CHiETODIPTERUS FABER." 



Illustration. Page. 



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"Head 3 to 3^; depth 1 to 1%. D. VIII-I, 

 20; A. Ill, 18; scales 60; caeca 4 to 6. Vertical 

 fins low in the young, falcate in the adult. Third dorsal spine more 

 than Y-2 in head, in adult about as long as from tip of snout to edge 

 of preopercle, its membrane blackish, more produced in the young ; 

 chin with a row of pores ; preorbital nearly as wide as eye ; pectoral 

 considerably shorter than ventrals, the first soft ray of the latter fila- 

 mentous. Color, grayish ; a dusky band across the eye to the 

 throat ; a second similar band, broader, beginning in front of the 

 dorsal and extending across base of pectoral to the belly ; a third 

 band, narrower, extending to middle of sides, from the base of fourth 

 and fifth dorsal spines ; a fourth broader band from the last dorsal spine 

 to the anal spines, the remaining bands alternately short and long ; 



