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posterior slender; eighteenth dorsal ray 1.7 in head; second and third anal spines longest, of about 
equal length, 1.6; pectoral rather long, a little longer than head; ventrals equal to pectorals; depth of 
caudal peduncle about 3; scales moderately large on middle of side, small on head and caudal pedun¬ 
cle, becoming very small on vertical fins; lateral line arched, running down to below base of last 
dorsal ray. 
Color in alcohol, very pale brown tinged with dull brassy olivaceous; a dark brown spot above 
occiput before spinous dorsal; below this a brown band running down through eye to edge of preo- 
percle; side with 7 nearly vertical olivaceous bands, last 2 rather indistinct; each scale with a dusky 
spot, becoming smaller as the scales become smaller toward the soft dorsal and anal, those of these 
fins being small and crowded; outer portion of dorsal with 2 submarginal longitudinal lines, the outer 
very pale, the 2 close together; anal with a blackish brown submarginal longitudinal line; caudal 
Fig. 162.— Chsetodon punc.tatofasciatus Cuvier A: Valenciennes; after Gunther. 
peduncle with a deep brown band; base of caudal dulUorange-brown; a median hlack lunate cross 
bar on caudal; pectoral and ventrals pale. 
Described from an example 3.9 inches long taken at Honolulu by the Fur Seal Commission. 
Another example 3.75 inches long was collected by Dr. Jenkins, and others, by the Albatross in 1902. 
The species was described by Garrett from the Hawaiian Islands. 
Chsetodon pwictatofcisciatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nut. Poiss., VII, 28. 1831, no locality given, but probably 
Hawaiian Islands. 
Chsetodon punctatolineatus Gronow, Cat. Fish., ed. Gray, 70,1854, no locality. 
Tetragon opt ms punvtatofasciatus, Bleeker, Atlas, IX, 40, tab. 374, fig. 3, (Buro; Obi Major; Solor; Amboyna: Banda; 
Aneityum; Sandwich Islands). 
Chsetodon midticinctus Garrett, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., Ill, 1863, 65. Sandwich Islands; Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, II. 44, taf. 
XXXIV, fig. B, 1874 (Sandwich Islands, after Garrett's drawing); Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII. 1902 (Sept. 
23, 1903), 472 (Honolulu); Snyder, op. cit. (Jan. 19, 1904), 53 (Honolulu). 
