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Colors in life if a specimen from Apia, creamy orange, grayer above, with many streaks of violet 

 blue; head with jaws blackish, forehead brown; a golden streak, then the ocular band, then a whitish 

 streak, yellow below, then brownish, whitish, and purplish black, the black stripe parallel with the 

 ocular band; spinous dorsal light yellow with a purplish line below; soft dorsal yellow, black, yellow, 

 violet, gray-purplish, violet-gray, the outside creamy brown, the black surrounded by golden; caudal 

 peduncle slaty, then whitish, golden, black, golden, and transparent, the black forming a broad bar; 

 anal with a golden stripe at base, then black, becoming rich brown on spines, then golden, then dark 

 brown, then golden, the black area surrounded by golden as on the dorsal; breast golden with a black 

 blotch; ventral golden; pectoral pale yellow. 



1154. Chsetodon ornatissimus (Solander). Tifitifi a'au. Hawaii; Samoa; Tahiti; Guam; New 



Guinea; Rarotonga (Seale) ; East Indies. 



Chtetodon ornatissimus Solander, in Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VII, 22, 1831, Tahiti. Giinther, Fische 



der Sudsee, 38, with plate, Sandwich Is. Seale, Bishop Museum 1901, 100, Guam. 

 Tetragonoptrus ornatissimus, Bleeker, Atlas, Ch<et., 32, tab. xi, Amboina, New Guinea. 

 Chtetodon ornatus Gray, Zool. Misc. 183-1, 33, Sandwich Is. 



A large and very handsome species generally common in the South Seas and northward to Hawaii. 

 We have 15 examples from Hawaii and Pago Pago. It is readily known by the presence of six 

 oblique stripes of orange on the side of the body. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, gray; head and belly golden; five or six black vertical stripes 

 across head, the interspaces yellow, these all parallel with the ocular band, which is the broadest; 

 three orange bars before pectoral; six oblique stripes on body upward and backward, of rich orange- 

 brown; a seventh stripe of dark brown on anal, this edged with a narrow black streak, then clear 

 yellow, then black; dorsal with two yellow and a black stripe; caudal with two black stripes and a 

 dull yellowish stripe between; base of fin gray; ventral golden; pectoral dull orange; breast anteriorly 

 black at the meeting of the ocular bands. 



1155. Chsetodon bennetti Cuvier & Valenciennes. Tahiti; Paumotu Is.; Gilbert Is.; Kingsmill 



I. ; East Indies. 

 Chsetodon bennetti Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vn, 84, Sumatra. Gtinther, Fische der Sudsee, p. 37, 



pi. 29, fig. A, Paumotu, Tahiti, Gilbert Is., Kingsmill I. 

 Chsetodon vinctus Bennett, Zool. Beechey's Voy. 62, pi. 17, fig. 1, 1849, Sumatra. 

 Tetragonoptrus bennetti, Bleeker, Atlas, Cheet., 34, tab. XIV, Sumatra, Java, Halmahera, Amboina. 



1156. Chastodon speculum Cuvier & Valenciennes. New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 



1157. Chsetodon plebejus (Broussonet). South Seas (Tahiti?) ; New Guinea (Macleay); India. 



Chsetodon plebej us (Broussonet) Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vn, 68, South Seas. Giinther, Fische der 

 Sudsee, 35, taf. 32, fig. B, same specimen. Day, Fishes of India, 104, pi. 26, from Broussonet's specimens, 

 Andaman Is. 



This species was long known from Broussonet's original type only, supposed to be from the South 

 Seas, and preserved in the British Museum for one hundred and thirty years. The presence of four 

 anal spines would necessitate the reference of the species to Megaprotodon, but the number is certainly 

 accidental, as in other regards the species is a true Chsetodon. Day counts three dorsal spines only 

 in his description, presumably drawn from a specimen from the Andaman Islands. His figure is 

 from Broussonet's specimen and shows four. The species is recorded by Macleay from New Guinea. 



1158. Chastodon quadrimaculatus Gray. Hawaii. 



Chtetodon quadrimaculatus Gray, Zool. Misc., 33, 1831, Sandwich Is. Giinther, Fische der Sudsee, 38, taf. 30, fig. a, 

 Upolu, Sandwich Is. Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Coram., xxm, 1903 (1905), 373, pi. XLIX, Hawaii. 



This fish is rather common about Honolulu. It has been recorded by Gtinther from Samoa, the 

 figure published differing a g«od-:deal from our specimens of the fish. The species is well distinguished 

 by the black back with two pale blotches and by the mesial yellow of the ocular stripe. 



1159. Chastodon corallicola Snyder. Hawaii. 



ChsstodoncorallicolaSnyder , Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (1904), 53, with pi. 11, fig. 20, Albatross Station 4032, 

 on Penguin Bank, south coast of Oahu I. 



This species is known only from the specimens collected by the Albatross. It is a dull-colored 

 species, with a broad, diffuse ocular band. It is an ally of Chsetodon flarirostris. 



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