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BIFASCIATED CH^TODON. 



Chaetodon Bifasciatus. C. albo-cazrukscens, corpore suborbicu- 

 lari,fasciis duabusfuscis, radio quarto pinnae dorsalis longissimo, 



Blueish -white Chaetodon, with suborbicular body marked by- 

 two brown bars, and the fourth ray of the dorsal fin ex- 

 tremely long. 



Chaetodon macrolepidotus. Lin. Block, t. 200. f, 1. 



Shape of the body round-oval ; or even orbicular: 

 colour blueish grey above, silvery-white beneath : 

 dorsal and anal fin of moderate breadth, and not 

 extending to the end of the tail ; but the fourth 

 ray of the dorsal fin, which is very thick and strong, 

 is extended to a vast distance beyond the rest, 

 reaching considerably farther than the tip of the 

 tail, over which it passes in a curved direction : 

 across the body, are two very broad blackish-brown 

 bands, viz : one from the origin of the dorsal fin to 

 the ventral fins ; the other from the middle of the 

 dorsal fin to the bottom of the anal ; passing through 

 both : this species is the C, macrolepidotus of 

 Linnasus ; but as the scales are not so large as in 

 some other species since discovered, I have given it 

 a different trivial name : it is a native of the Indian 

 seas, where it is said to arrive at a very consider- 

 able size, sometimes weighing upwards of twenty 

 pounds, and to be much esteemed as a food, re* 

 sembling the Sole in delicacy, 



