114 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



TELEOSTOMI. ' ACANTHOPTERI. 



MONACANTHIDAE. 



Balistes ciUatn.s Mitcliill, Amcr. month, iniiff. & crit. rev., 1S18, 

 vol. 2, p. 326. "B.\HAM.\ Straits." 



Monacanthus 7naftsachusette}isi.s Storer. Store r, Mem. Amer. 

 acad., 1S63, vol. 8, p. 425, pi. 34, fig. 4. 



Mass. — Massachusetts Bay (Storer 1839 and 1S()3). 



264. ]\IONACANTHUS HISPIDUS (Linn^). 



Filefish. 



Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. nat. nui.s., 1898, pt. 2, ]). 

 1715; 1900, pt. 4, pi. 259, fig. 635. 



Balistes hispidus Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 12, 1766, vol. 1, p. 405. 

 "Carolina." 



Mojiacanthus .s'ignifer Storer. Storer, Mem. Amer. acad., 1863, 

 vol. 8, p. 426, pi. 35, fig. 1. 



Mass. — Lynn and Nantucket (Storer 1843 a); Hingham; 

 Lynn; Nahant; Boston Harbor (Storer 1863); Marthas Vineyard 

 (B. S. N. H., Hyatt coll.); (;ape Cod (Goode 1879); Woods Hole 

 (Baird 1873; Bean 1880 and Smith 1898). 



R. I.— Newport (Bean 1880); Narragansett Bay (R. L fish 

 comm. 1899). 



Conn. — Stonington (Linsley 1844). 



265. Alutera schoepfii (Walbaum). 



Foolfish; Turbot; Hogfish. 



Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. nat. nuis., 1898. pt. 2, p. 

 1718; 1900, pt. 4, pi. 260, fig. 636. 



Balistes schoepfii Walbaum, Artedi Pise, 1792, p. 461. "Long 

 Island." 



Monacanthus aiiranticus DeKay. Storer, Mem. Amer. acad., 

 1863, vol. 8, p. 423, pi. 34, fig. 3. 



' Me.— Portland (Storer 1845, 1848 and 1863). 

 Mass.— Holmes Hole (Storer 1839); Salem (Storer 1845, and 



