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299. Chsetodon ornatissimus Solander. “ KiJcakdpu.” Plate LIII. 
Head 3.3 in length; depth 1.4; eye 4 in head; snout 3; maxillary 3.5; interorbital 3.1; D. xxn, 28; 
A. in, 23; scales 12-58-25. 
Body very deep, compressed; head deep, upper profile from snout to origin of dorsal almost 
straight; snout very short, bluntly rounded; mouth small; terminal jaws a little produced; lips rather 
thin, broad; teeth in broad brush-like bands; eye high, a little anterior; preopercle very finely serrate; 
interorbital space broad, convex; nostrils close together, anterior with rim elevated, with fleshy flap, 
posterior circular; dorsal spines graduated to last, which is 1.6 in head; seventeenth dorsal ray 1.2; 
fourteenth anal ray 1.3, longest; caudal with slightly rounded margin, 1.2; pectoral short, 1.1; ventrals 
inserted a little before pectoral, 1.2; ventral spine 1.35 in length of fin; depth of caudal peduncle 2.4; 
scales ctenoid, in nearly horizontal series becoming very small on vertical fins; lateral line strongly 
arched, not continuous beyond base of last dorsal rays. 
Described from example No. 04560, from Honolulu. 
Color in life of a specimen (field No. 383), obtained by Jordan and Kellogg at Apia in 1902, gray; 
head and belly golden ; 6 black stripes across head, the interspaces yellow; 3 orange bars before pectoral ; 
6 rich orange-brown oblique stripes upward and backward; a seventh stripe on anal dark brown, this 
edged with a narrow black streak, then clear yellow; dorsal black, with a yellow and 2 black stripes; 
caudal with 2 black stripes and a dull yellowish one, its base gray; ventral golden; pectoral dull 
orange; breast anteriorly black. 
Color of a nearly fresh example white; head and belly light yellow; side with 7 oblique bands 
of orange-brown; 6 bands and blotches on head black; dorsal white with 2 black stripes and a 
yellowish one; anal with 2 black stripes and a yellow one; caudal white with 2 black stripes; 
pectorals yellowish; ventrals golden. 
Color in alcohol, pale brown ground-color tinged with yellow; side with 6 rather broad oblique 
creamy brown bands with gray edges; head with blackish vertical bands, 2 of which are broad, 1 
running from snout down on side of lower jaw, the other from above occiput down to eye, continued 
below and down to breast; lower lip broadly blackish; 2 narrow blackish vertical lines behind eye, 
first continued from behind eye up along margin of dorsal to last dorsal rays; a broad band of gray- 
brown between eyes; spaces between black bands and lines on head yellowish; margins of soft dorsal 
and anal narrowly blackish; anal with a broad black marginal band parallel with margin of fin; 
caudal with margin white, a blackish terminal band ; a black median cross band ; pectoral and ventrals 
pale, former with white bar across base. 
The collection contains 6 specimens obtained by ourselves, 2 by the Fur Seal Commission and 2 
by Doctor Jenkins, all from Honolulu, where the species is frequently taken among the coral reefs. 
The length varies from 4.5 to 7.25 inches. Other specimens were obtained at Honolulu by the 
Albatross. 
Chsetodon ornatissimus Solander in Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., VII, 22, 1831, Tahiti; Gunther, Cat., II, 15, 
1860 (Sandwich Islands; Amboyna); Gunther, Fische der Sudsee, II, 38, taf. XXX, fig. B, 1874 (Sandwich Islands); 
Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 513 (Sandwich Islands); Jenkins, Bull. IT. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 
23, 1903), 472 (Honolulu); Snyder, op. cit. (Jan. 19, 1904), 531 (Honolulu). 
Chsetodon ornatus Gray, Zool. Miscell., 33, 1831, Sandwich Islands. 
Cilharcedus ornatissimus, Kaup, Arch. Naturgesch., XXVI, 1860, 141. 
Tetragonoptrus ornatissimus, Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk. II, 282, 1865. 
Tetragonoptrus ( Citharoedus ) ornatissimus, Bleeker, Verh. Kon. Ak. Wet. XVII, 1877, 57 (Amboyna; New Guinea). 
300. Chsetodon quadrimaculatus Gray. Plate XLIX. 
Head 3.5 in length; depth 1.6; eye 3.5 in head; snout 2.9; maxillary 4.4; interorbital 3.4; D. xiv, 
24; A. hi, 18; scales 8-42-20. 
Body deep, compressed, back elevated; head very deep, upper profile oblique; snout long, oblique; 
jaws produced, blunt, equal; mouth small, nearly horizontal; teeth brush-like, in broad bands in 
jaws; eye small, anterior; marginal portion of preopercle crenulate below; interorbital space broad, 
convex; nostrils small, close together, circular, anterior with small fleshy flap; anterior dorsal spines 
strong, somewhat enlarged, fourth longest, 1.5 in head; second anal spine longest, 1.4; thirteenth anal 
ray longest, 1.5; caudal broad, slightly rounded; pectoral pointed, a little longer than head; ventrals 
