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BLACK-AND-WHITE JiODIAN. 



Bodianus Melanoleucos. jB. argenteus, fasciis transversis, 



irregularibus, nigris. 

 Silvery Bodian, with irregular, transverse, black bands. 

 Bodianus melanoleucos. Cepede. 



Length, according to Cepede, four or five deci- 

 metres : shape lengthened : mouth and fins yellow : 

 pectoral and ventral fins marked at the base by a 

 black spot : teeth unequal, and in several rows : 

 palate also beset in one part with small teeth. Ob- 

 served by Commerson in the Indian seas. 



STAR-EYED BODIAN. 



Bodianus Stellifer. B. argenteus, dorso subluteo, orbitis subtits 

 spinosis. 



Silvery Bodian, with subluteous back, and orbits spiny beneath. 

 Bodianus stellifer. Bloch. 



A small species : length about five inches and a 

 half : shape somewhat like that of a small Tench, 

 but rather longer : head short and obtuse : scales 

 middle sized : orbits denticulated beneath in such 

 a manner as to appear furnished with a series of 

 small short spiny processes : tail oblong-rounded. 

 Native of the seas about the Cape of Good Hope. 



