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OCELLATED CHjETODON. 



Chaetodon Ocellatus. C. corpore ovato argenteo, capite fascia, 

 nigra, pinna dorsali macula rotunda nigra albo marginata. 



Chaetodon with silvery- white ovate body, head crossed by 

 a black bar, and dorsal fin marked by a round black spot 

 edged with white. 



Chaetodon ocellatus. Block, t. 211. f. 2. 



A small species : length about four inches : shape 

 ovate : colour silvery white, with a few oblique 

 yellow streaks : dorsal and anal fin broad, rounded 

 at the hind part, and very scaly at the base, dorsal 

 marked with a large, round deep-black spot, edged 

 with white, head marked by a transverse black band* 

 running across the eyes. Native of the Indian seas. 



KOSTRATED CILffiTODON. 



Chaetodon Rostratus. C. corpore subrotundo-ovato albido,fasciis. 



transfer sis fuscis, rostro longo, pinna dorsali macula nigra. 

 Whitish Chaetodon, with roundish-ovate body crossed by brown 



bands, long snout, and dorsal fin marked by a black spot. 

 Chaetodon rostratus. Lin. Block, t. 202. f. 1. 

 Chaetodon EnceladuS. Nat. Misc* 2. pi. 67. Jaculator. PkU, 



Trans. 1J65. 



Shape roundish-ovate : length about six or eight 

 inches : snout lengthened into a tubular form : 

 colour of the body whitish, with a dusky tinge on 

 the back, and marked by five transverse, and nearly 

 equidistant, brown bands, with milk-white edges : 

 the first band, which is narrower than the rest, 

 passes across the head, through the eyes, the three 



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