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CHILI CHtETODON. 



Chaetodon Chilensis. C. aureus, fasciis quinqm discobribus^ 

 cauda Integra, spinis dorsalibus undecim, Molin. Chil. p. 200. 

 Lin. Gmel. p. 1204. 



Golden Chaetodon, with five coloured bands, even tail, and 

 eleven dorsal spines. 



Native of the American seas. Observed by 

 Molina about the coasts of Chili. Length twelve 

 inches : shape oval : snout lengthened : scales 

 small: head crossed by a black band; body by 

 two brown ones, and tail by one cinereous and one 

 black band : dorsal fin large and yellow : tail 

 silvery. 



?LEAT-N0SE CHiETODON. 



Shsetodon Plectorhinchus. C. nigricans, maculis aWis nigrf* 



maculatis, naso. plicato. 

 Blackish Chaetodon, with white patches spotted with blacky 



and pleated snout. 

 Le Plectorhinque Chetodonoide. Cepede. 3. p. 135. 



Described by Cepede from a specimen in the 

 museum of the Prince of Orange, and, rather un- 

 necessarily, ranked under a distinct genus, by the 

 name of Plectorhinchus. Length, according to 

 the plate, about five inches : habit that of the 

 major part of the oblong-bodied Chaetodons : colour 

 blackish, or very dark, variegated with several large 

 roundish, white or light-coloured patches, which 



