THE SHORE FISHES. 335 



These specimens are badly faded and show no dark l:)ars across the clieek, 



hut they agree very well with Riipi)eirs jilate of T. hoDckvnji (Atlas, 1828, i)l. 17, 



%. 2). 



Tetraodon lacrymatus Cuvier. 



Qiioy & Gaimari), Voy. Uranie. Zool., 1824, p. 204. Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. 8. Fish. 

 Cnmm., 1905. 23, pt. 1, i). 429, fig. 1S6. 



The collection contains Nos. x\37, M. C. Z. 29776, a specimen 7^ inches 

 long from Tikei; A55, 51 inches, Fakarava, and A63, 8| inches long from 

 Makemo, all in the Paumotu Islands. 



Tetraodon manillensis Proce. 



Hull. I'liilmn., 1S22, p. 130. 



Cidijmcion manilli'tisiii Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., 1865, 6, p. 66, 69, tab. 208, Gymnod. 4, fig. 2. 

 Tctmndoit imiiKiculdtii.'i var. vinialax GtiNTHER, Cat., 1870, 8, ji. 292. Jordan & Seale, Bull. 

 U. S. Bur. Fi.sh., 1906, 25, p. 370. 



Nos. A150, n\ inches and A139, M. C. Z. 29789, Sg inches long from Suva, 

 Fiji Islands, and 09061, f inches long from Arhno Atoll, Marshall Islands. 



Color of back, in A150, dark brown, growing lighter downward, becoming 

 white on a level with lower part of pectoral; about 11 narrow black longitudinal 

 stripes between the dorsal and anal with an occasional incomplete line, the 

 complete lines extending nearly to the caudal, especially those above; there are 

 similar, but lighter lines on the belly, extending from the throat to the region of 

 the anal; the lines on body extending on to head, three or four of them encir- 

 cling the pectoral fin; outer rays of caudal black. In the smaller example 

 (A139) the dark lines not evident on the belly; the prickles on the smaller 

 one proportionately longer. 



Jordan & Seale say: "Apparently Dr. CUinther is right in regarding T. 

 manillensis, with the back streaked, as the young of T. immaculahis in which 

 species the back is plain in life. Specimens before us from Negros in the Philip- 

 pines show that the black stripe on the back disappears with age. Both Giinther 

 and Bleeker record specimens of the striped forms of T. manillensis, of 10 to 12 

 inches in length." Since the black stripes are present as shown by Giinther & 

 Bleeker, and by our specimens in individuals of 10 or 12 inches in length, and as 

 the striped form is of such wide distribution, the presence of stripes is not a 



