1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 1223 



stronger than the rest, conical, pointed ; preopercle toothed, lateral 

 line terminating opposite the soft part of the dorsal fin ; branchio- 

 stegous rays five. 



Tetradrachmum arcuatum, (Linn£.) 



Chsetodon arcuatus, Linne : Mus. Ad. Fr. I. PI. 33, Fig. 5. 



Chsetodon arcuanus, Linne : ibid. Fig. 8. 



Chsetodon abudafur, ForsHl, 65, No. 93. 



Chsetodon arcuatus, Linne: Syst. 1243. 



Chsetodon arcuanus, Linne: ibid. 1250. 



Chsetodon aruanus, Bloch, Tab. 198, Fig. 2. 



Lutjan aruane, Lacepede, IV. 720. 



Chsetodon arcuatus, Shaw, IV. 341. 



Chsetodon aruanus, Shaw, IV. 348. 



Dascyllus aruanus, Cuv. R. A. II. 179( 6 ). 



Pomacentrus aruanus, Ruppell : Atlas, 39. 



Dascyllus aruanus, Bennett : Life of Raffles, 688. 



Chsetodon araneus, Bennett : Ceylon, No. 17. 



Dascyllus aruanus, Ruppell: Neue Wirbelth. Fische, 129. 



Dascyllus aruanus, Cuv. and Val. V. 434. 



Dascyllus aruanus, S. Miiller and Schl. Verh. 21. 



Dascyllus aruanus, Bleeker : Verh. Batav. Gen. XXI. 1 Ged. 2, 5. 



Alternately black and white ; the anterior band black, occupying the 

 space from the throat to the third dorsal spine, excepting the forehead, 

 from between the eyes to the lips, which is white; next a second 

 oblique whitish band bordering upon the root of the ventrals and the 

 pectorals, and continuing along the sixth dorsal spine ; next a black 

 band, comprising the ventral fins to a little in front of the anus, over 

 the sides, and over the seventh, eighth and ninth dorsal spine ; next a 

 whitish band from the second anal ray, not comprising the spiny portion 

 which is black, over the body along the first dorsal ray ; next a nearly 

 vertical black, comprising the rest of the anal rays, the anterior half of 

 the narrow part of the body in front of the caudal, and the rest of the 

 dorsal rays ; the rest of the space in front of the caudal is whitish, the 

 anterior half of the latter fin is black, the rest paler or grey -, pectorals 

 bluish- or greyish-white. Iris narrow silvery round the pupil, the rest 

 bluish black. 



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