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smaller than pupil of eye and with many smaller spots of more or less equal size distributed in oblique 
rows above, becoming straight on side below; tins all pale. 
Described chiefly from example No. 04556, from Honolulu. 
Our collection contains 37 excellent specimens from Honolulu, where it is common about the 
coral reefs, and 4 from Hilo, ranging in length from 1.5 to 6.25 inches. Of those from Honolulu 1 was 
collected by Jordan and Snyder in 1900 and 8 by Doctor Jenkins. 
Chxtodon miliaris Quoy & Gaimard, Voyage de l’Uranie, Zool., 380, pi. 62, fig. 6, 1824, Sandwich Islands; Eydoux A Sou- 
leyet, Voy. Bonite, 1, 163, pi. 2, lig. 2,1841 (Sandwich Islands); Gunther. Fische der Siidsee, 46, 1874 (Sandwich 
Islands); Steindachner, Denks. Ak. Wiss. Wien, LXX. 1900, 489 (Honolulu; Laysan); Fowler, Proe. Ac. Nat. Sei. 
Phila. 1900, 512 (Sandwich Islands; not of Blceker); Jenkins, Bull. 11. S. Fish. Comm., XXII, iy02 (Sept. 23, 1903), 
472 (Honolulu); Snyder, op. cit. (Jan. 19,1904), 531 (Honolulu; Hanalei Bay, Kauai; Laysan Island). 
Chxtodon mantelliger Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 1899 (June 8, 1901), 394, fig. 7, Honolulu (Type, No. 49699, U. S. Nat. 
Mus.) 
298. Chaetodon trifasciatus Mungo Park. Plate LII. 
Head 3.75 in length; depth 1.75; eye 3.5 in head; snout 3.25; maxillary 4; interorbital 3; D. xiii, 
22; A. hi, 20; scales 7-40-14. 
Body deep, rather elongate, compressed; back trenchant; head very deep, profile steep above; 
snout short, blunt, rounded; mouth small, horizontal; teeth brush-like, in rather narrow bands; eye 
high, anterior; interorbital space broad, convex; nostrils close together in front of eye; sixth and 
seventh dorsal spines longest, former 1.6 in head; fourteenth dorsal ray longest, 1.75; third anal spine 
longest, 1.6; anal rays long, thirteenth ray 1.7; caudal small, margin rounded; pectoral a trifle less 
than length of head; ventral 1.2; caudal peduncle compressed, its least depth 2.8. 
Color in life of a specimen (field No. 260), taken by Jordan and Kellogg at Apia in 1902, creamy 
orange, grayer above, with many streaks of violet-blue; head and jaws blackish, forehead brown, a 
golden streak, then the ocular band, then a whitish streak, yellow below, then brownish, whitish, and 
purplish black; spinous dorsal light yellow, with a purplish line below; soft dorsal yellow, black, 
yellow, violet, gray, purplish, violet-gray, the outside creamy brown; caudal peduncle slaty, then 
whitish, golden, black, golden, and transparent; anal with a golden stripe at base, then black, liecom¬ 
ing rich brown on spines, then golden, then dark brown, then golden; breast golden, with a black 
blotch; ventrals golden; pectoral pale yellow. 
Color in alcohol, pale brown above, lower surface whitish; side with longitudinal narrow brown 
hands extending up on spinous dorsal, where they are very narrow and close together; snout and 
lower jaw blackish brown, fading to a lighter brown on interorbital space; a blackish-brown band 
from occiput to eye, bordered narrowly with white continued through eye and below to front of 
throat; a white vertical band from below nostrils separating brown of snout and band below eye; broad 
white vertical band behind dark band below eye; a narrow dark line from below anterior dorsal spine 
obliquely down and close behind eye; soft dorsal with a black band beginning on upper part of first 
dorsal rays, continued down along base of soft dorsal and upper part of caudal peduncle, at first narrow 
then widening below; two narrow dusky lines close together on upper part of soft dorsal running 
down farther apart and at equal distance; soft dorsal, anal, and caudal grayish, a median vertical 
blackish band on caudal; anal with a long blackish longitudinal band edged with pale yellow broad¬ 
ening posteriorly, running along basal portion at first, then extending out on median part of soft anal 
posteriorly; margin of anal narrowly light gray below, above this a broad area of dark gray, edges 
above and below deeper; pectoral and ventrals pale or whitish. Described chiefly from example No. 
04549, taken at Honolulu. 
The collection contains but 5 specimens, 4.75 to 6 inches long, all from Honolulu. Of these, 1 was 
obtained by the Albatross in 1896, and 2 were collected by Doctor Jenkins. The species is widely 
distributed throughout Polynesia, but is rare about the coral reefs at Honolulu. 
Chxtodon trifasciatm Mungo Park, Trans. Linn. Soc., Ill, 1797, 34, Shores of Sumatra; Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV. 462, 
494, and 498,1802; Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 474 (Honolulu). 
Chxtodon vittatus Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 227, 1S0I, Sumatra; Cuvier A Valenciennes, Hist, Nat. Poiss., VII, 34. 
1831; Bleeker, Vcrh. Batav. Genootsch., XXIII, 1850, Chretod., 18 (Amboyna); Bleeker, Enum. Spec. Arch.India, 
49, 1859 (East Indian Archipelago); Gunther, Cat., 11, 23, 1860 (Ceram; Amboyna); Gunther, Fisehe der Siidsee, II, 
41, 1874. 
Chxtodon tau-nigrum Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VII, 38, 1831, Guam. 
