of Norfli AniPrlcd. 7 



across eye and cheek ; a very large jet-black spot, ocellated 

 with pale, below soft dorsal ; soft dorsal aud caudal with 

 two narrow black bands, the margins abruptly pale. Head 

 3^; depth U. D. XIII (XII), 19 ; A. Ill, 17. Scales 6-42-17. 



Capistratus, 8. 



2. ch.etodon nigkikostkis. 



Sarothrodvs nigrirostris Gill. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1862, 243 (C:ape San 



Lucas). 

 Chatodon nigrirostru Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 365 



(Cape San Lucas) ; Jordan, Cat. X. A. Fishes, 102. 1885 (name only). 



Habitat, Cape 8mii liiicas. 



This s])eeics is ktiowii to us only through tlie descriptions of 

 Gill. 'I'he orioinal Tvjies alone have been taken. 



3. CH^TODON OCEI.I.ATUS. 



C hcetodon ocellatus Bloch, Ichthyologia, taf. 211, fig. 2, 1787; Walbaum, 

 Artedi, Genera, 414, 1792 (copied) ; Turton. Syst. Nat., I, 777, 1806 

 (India) ; Jordan, Cat. Fish. North America, 102, 1885 (name only). 



C hcetodon Mmaculatus Bloch, Ichthyologia, taf. 219, fig. 1, 1790 ; Walbaum, 

 Artedi, Genera, 415, 1792 (copied) ; Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. 

 Nat. Poiss., VII, 67, 1831 (Havana, Martinique, Porto Rico, San Do- 

 mingo) ; Storer, Syn. Fish. N. A., 338, 1845 (copied) ; Poey, Mem. 

 de Cuba, II, 371, 1860 (Cuba) ; Glinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., II, 9, 

 1860 (Jamaica) ; Poey, Enum. Pise. Cub., 62, 1875 (Cuba); Jordan 

 & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 940, 1882. 



Scirothrodus Mmaculatus Cope. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, 1870, 474 (Santa 

 Cruz) ; Poey, Enum. Pise. Cub.. 62, 1875 (Cuba) : Goode, Bull. U. 

 S. Nat. Mus., V, 43, 1876 (Bermudas). 



Sarothrodus maculocinctus Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil., 99, 1861 (New 

 port). 



Chcetodon maculocinctus Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 616, 1882. 



Sarothrodus amplexicollis Poey, Enum. Pise. Cub., 63, 1875 (Cuba). 



Habitat, West Indian Fanna ; India. 



The nnmerons specimens examined by us are from Havana. 

 There is no donbt that Sarothrorhts macidocinctus from the Gulf 

 Stream, is the young of this common tropical species. 



