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CHALYBEAN CH^TODON. 



numerous oblique dusky lines, running towards the 

 tail, and forming so many acute angles along the 

 sides of the body : the head is crossed by a brown 

 band passing through the eyes : the base of the tail 

 is crossed by a smaller bar ; the dorsal and anal fin 

 are edged on their broadest part by a brown margin, 

 and on each side the body, a little above the tail, 

 is a large, round, black spot, with a white border. 

 Native of the American seas, and found about the" 

 coasts of Jamaica, &c. 



CHALYBEAN CHJETODON. 



Chsetodon Faber. C. subargenteus, cceruleo tinctus, pinnis fasciis* 



que corporis sex transversis cceruleis. 

 Subargenteous Chsetodon, tinged with blue, with blue fins, 



and six transverse blue bands. 

 Chsetodon Faber. Block, t. 212. 



Shape roundish ovate : length about twelve 

 inches : ground-colour silvery white, but with a 

 strong tinge of dusky blue on the upper parts, and 

 marked by six unequal, dark-blue, transverse bands, 

 of which the first, which is narrow, passes across 

 the head, through the eyes; the next, which is 

 much broader, through the body; the third passes 

 only half way down from the back ; the fourth 

 completely through the body; the fifth, which is* 

 narrower, across the end of the body; and the 

 sixth, which is the narrowest of all, across the 

 base of the tail : all the fins are of the same deep- 

 blue colour with the bands, and the hind-parts of 



