of Xortli America. 3 



alone scaled. Caudal truncate ; uniform reddish brown, with 

 shining longitudinal streaks, following the series of scales ; spi- 

 nous dorsal and its base blackish ; soft dorsal bordered with 

 orange ; other fins yellowish or colorless ; border of opercle 

 orange ; ocular band dark, narrower than eye, Avithout paler 

 border, not extending below eye. D. XIII, 19 ; A. Ill, 15 ; 

 Scales 8-40-19. Depth 2 in length ; head 3.] {Gunther, Poey.) 



ACULEATUS, 1. 



1. PKOGNATHOI>ES ACULEATUS. 



Chelmon aculeatus Poey, Memorias, II, 202 (July, 1860). (Havana.) 



Prog imtliodes aculeatus Poey, Synopsis, 1868, 354 ; Poey, Euumeratio, 1875, 



63 (Cuba). 

 Chelmo pelta Glinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., II, 38 (September, 1860). (Lo- 

 cality unknoAvn.) 



Habitat, West Indian Fauna. 



This species is known to us only from the accounts of Glinther 

 and Poey. 



Oenu§ 2. CHiETODOSf. 



Ch^todon Artedi, Genera, 1738, 51 ; Synonymia, 1738, 89 (numerous spe- 

 cies, many belonging to Pomacanthus, etc.). 



Tetragonoptrus Klein, Historia Piscium, 1744, 37 (many species, stria- 

 tus, etc.\ 



Ch^todok Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, X, 1758, 272 (includes the then 

 known Chaitodontid(B, some Acanthuridce, etc.). 



Ch^todon Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. II, 1827 (striatus, capistratus, etc.). 



Rabdophorus Swainson, Fish., Kept., and Amph., 1839, II, 21 {ephip- 

 pm?)i}. 



CiTHARCEDUs Kaup, " Wicgm. Arch., 1860 {met/eri)." 



Eteira Kaup, "1. c {triangularis=strigangulus)" 



LixoPHORA Kaup, "1. c {auriga).'" 



Sarothrodus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 238 ("Chaetodon Cuv., 

 nee Artedi " substitute for Ghcetodon, transferred to Pomacanthus). 



Tholichthys Gunther, Ann. Mag. Kat. Hist., London, 1868, Abl {osseus, 

 larval form). 



Tetragonoptrus Bleeker, Rev. Famille Chaetodontoides, 1877, 52 {stri- 

 atus). 



