100 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



longest dorsal ray 1.75; longest anal ray 1.5; length of pectoral 2. Teeth very strong, the front ones conic; 

 dermal plates strong and rough, 29 from gill-opening to base of caudal; preocular groove distinct. 



Batistes flavimarginalus Ruppell, Atlas, Fische, 33, 1828, Red Sea; Gunther, Cat., vin, 223 (Red Sea; Amboyna). 

 Batistes (Pseudobalistes) fiavimarginatus, Bleeker, Atlas, v, 113, pi. ccxxiv, fig. 3. 



256. Balistapus undulatus (Mungo Park). 



Nine specimens from Bacon (no. 3374, 3375, 3438, 3439, 3604, 4058 to 4060, and 4123; length 4.75 to 6.5 

 'in.). 



Batistes undulatus Mungo Park, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond.,m, 1797, 37, Sumatra; Gunther, Cat., vm,226 (Red Sea; Zanzibar; 



Moluccas; Sumatra; Amboyna; Ceram; Zebu, Philippines; China; Japan). 

 Batistes (Balistapusi lincatus Bleeker. Atlas, v, 118, pi. ccxxix, fig. 2. 



257. Balistapus aculeatus (Linnseus). Pugvt. 



Nine specimens from Bacon (no. 3307, 3308, 3388, 3389, 3433 to 3435, 4118 and 4119; length 3.5 to 6.5 in.), 

 and 2 from Zamhoanga (no. 3364 and 3373). 



Batistes aculeatus Linnauis, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 328, India; Giinthor, Cat., vm, 223 ( Fie de France; Island of Johanna; Zanzi- 

 bar; Moluccas; Amboyna; China Seas; Fiji; Micronesia; Seychelles; Mauritius). 

 Balistapus aculeatus, Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xxm, 1903 (1905), 414, pi. lxu. 



Family MONACANTHID/E. 

 258. Monacanthus chinensis (Bloch). 



Three specimens from Bulan (no. 3259, 3260, and 4140; length 5 to 6.5 in.). 



Balistes chinensis Bloch. Icnth., V, 24, pi. CLU, fig. 1, 1797, Brazil and China. 



Monacanthus chinensis, Gunther, Cat., vm, 236 (North China; Pinaug; Singapore; Shanghai); Bleeker, Atlas, v, 125, pi. 

 ccxxil, fig. 2. 



259. Monacanthus macrurus Bleeker. Bungaong. 



One fine specimen from Jolo (no. 3693; length 7.5 in.), and one from Bacon (no. 3676; length 5.55 in.). 

 These specimens show traces of dark bands at base of anal. 



Monacanthus macrurus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind.,xn,226, 1857, Nias; Gunther, Cat., vm, 247, 1870. 

 Pseudo monacanthus macrurus Bleeker. Atlas, v, 134, pi. ccxxvm, fig. 2. 



260. Osbeckia scripta (Osbeck). Samarang. 



Three specimens from Jolo (no. 3313 to 3315; length 4.5 to 8.2 in.). Color in spirits, yellowish with 

 brown spots and reticulations; caudal 2.5 in length. 



These specimens differ from typical examples of O. scripta in having the dorsal spine very short, its length 

 being less than diameter of eye. They may represent an undescribed species, the describing of which we 

 defer until additional material can be examined. 



Balistes scriptus Osbeck, Reise nack Ostindien und China, 1, 144, 1705, China Seas. 



Batistes monoceros scriptus, Gmehn, Syst. Nat., 1463, 1788; after Osbeck. 



Monacanthus scriptus, Gunther, Cat., vm, 252. 



Osheckia scripta, Jordan & Evermann, Bull. V. S. Fish Comm., xxm, 1903 (1905) , 422, fig. 184 (Honolulu). 



Family TETRAODONTID.43. 

 261. Lagocephalus hypselogeneion (Bleeker). 



Three specimens from Bulan (no. 4023 to 4025; length 3.5 to 3.75 in.). 



These examples have the fold of skin on lower posterior portion of side and tail well developed; caudal 

 lunate and banded with numerous line vertical lines; cheek with 5 subvertical bars of brown; upper half of 

 body with numerous whitish spots. These seem to resemble Day's figure in every respect. 



Tetraodon hypselogeneion Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., m, 300, 1S52. Amboyna, Wahai. 

 Tetrodon hjlpselogenion, Gunther. Cat., vm, 277; Day, Fishes India, 702, pi. clxxxiii, fig. 5. 



