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 CH^TODONTID^. 



SAROTHRODUS BIMACULATUS, {Block) Poeij. 

 FoTJR-EYED Fish. 



CJicetodon Mmaculatus, Bloch, Ichth. vii, 1797, tab. ccxix, f. 1. — Schneider, Bloch, Syst. 



Ichth. 1801, 225.— Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss. vii, 1831, 67.— Storer, Syn. 



Fish. N. Am. 1846, 86.— GtJnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. ii, 1861, 9.— Poey, 



Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1861, 37J. 

 Sarothrodus Mmaculatus, Poey, Eep. Fis. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, 353. — Cope, Trans. Am. 



Phil. Soc. 1870, 474. 



The "Four-eyed Fish" is usually seen in sheltered coves, lazily swim- 

 ming a few feet below the surface, under the shadow of some high rock. 

 Its local name has reference to the eye-like spots near the tail, which 

 the fishermen believe to be a true pair of eyes. The species is also 

 recorded from the northern West Indies. 



Color. — Pearly-gray 5 snout, posterior edge of operculum, base of pec- 

 toral, the anal, caudal, and dorsal bright yellow, blendiug into the gray 

 of the body. A band, black, edged with yellow, extends from a point 

 in front of and below the first dorsal spine across the eye to the margin 

 of interoperculum ; soft dorsal with a large round indistinct black spot 

 at its base between the fifth and twelfth rays, and a small spot of deep 

 black at its angle ; soft dorsal with narrow marginal line of black ; soft 

 anal with narrow, submarginal band of light blue, anteriorly edged 

 with black ; caudal with terminal band of bluish-white, with bright- 

 yellow center ; base of ventrals blotched with yellow. 



HOLACAXTHUS CILIARIS, [Linne) Lacepede. 

 Angel-eish. 



Acarauna major finnis cornutis, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama 

 Islands, ii, 31, tab. xxxi, 1743. 



Chcetodon griseus fasciis quatuor fuscis, LiNNfi, Mus. Ad. Fried. 1, 1754, 62, tab. xxxiii, f. 1. 



Chcetodon ciliaris, Linn:^, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1, 1758, 276; ed. 12, 1, 1766, 465.— Gmelin, 

 Linn(5, Syst. Nat. 1, 1788, 1252.— Bloch, Ichth. vi, 1788, 83, taf. ccxiv.— 

 Schneider, Bloch, Syst., Ichth. ed. 1801, 218. 



Holacanthus ciliaris, LAci;pi:DE, Hist. Nat. Poiss. iv, 1803, 527-534. — Cuv. & Val. 

 Hist. Nat. Poiss. vii, 1831, 154.— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. ii, 1861, 46.— 

 Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1861, 371 ; Eep. Fis.-Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, 351.— 

 Gill, Baird, Eep. on Sea Fisheries of Southern New England, 1873, 802. 



Gdbelita, Parra, Desc. Dif. Piezas Hist. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1787, 11, tab. vii, f. 1. 



Chcetodon Farrce, Schneider, op. cit. 235 (on Parra's figure). • 



