37$ CONSTRICTED CHiETODON. 



of moderate size, and slightly lunated : gill-covers 

 without spine. Native of the American seas, where 

 it arrives at a considerable size. 



CONSTRICTED CHiETODON. 



Chaetodon Constrictus. C. griseo-Jlavescens, nigro tranaversim 



fasciatus, corpore medio constrkto. 

 Yellowish-grey Chaetodon, with transverse black bands and 



body constricted in the middle. 

 Chaetodon constrictus. New Holl, zool. p. 27. t. 6. 



Length about eight inches : shape of the body 

 inclining to an oblong square, and remarkably con- 

 tracting in diameter about the middle, so as to 

 appear constricted in that part : scales of moderate 

 size : colour yellowish grey, tinged on the back 

 and part of the fins with blue: across the body 

 eight black bands, that in the middle narrowest : 

 on the back two very distinct fins, the rays of the 

 first being all spiny : tail inclining, though very 

 slightly, to a lunated form. Native of the Indian 

 seas, and observed about the coasts of New Holland. 



