THK SH()1{E FISHES. 337 



iuiterior inarj!;in of the eye, the third below the posterior margin; in one or two 

 specimens there is also a faint bloteh-like band aei'oss the back, just back of the 

 highest part of the back or hum]). 



These additional colors may be characters of the young and can hardly be 

 considered of specific value; the close agreement with Bennett's figure would 

 perhaps justify its identification with that species notwithstanding the remote- 

 ness of the two localities; however, Bleeker has described a species under the 

 name of C. bennetti which he considers identical with Bennett's C. ocellatus. 

 In his Atlas, 5, Bleeker restores C. ocellatus Bennett, and figures it (Tab. 214, 

 (lynmod. Tab. 10, hg. 5), but this figure is apparently of a quite different spe- 

 cies from Bennett's ('. ocellatus. 



Inasmuch as Bennett's name, ocellatus, is preoccupied by Bloch, our sj:)eci- 

 mens, even should they prove identical with Bennett's, would rec^uire a new name. 



Head 2.5 in length; eye 4 in head; snout 1.68; interorbital about S; dorsal 

 10; anal 9; bodj' covered with fine prickles. 



DIODONTIDAE. 



Diodon hystrix Linne. 



Sy.st. Nat. ed. 10, 17.5S, p. :3;5.j. Jordan & Evermax.n, Bull. V. S. Fitsli. Coiiim., 190.5, 23, |)t. 1, 

 ]i. 4:^7, fig. 192. 



No. A31, a specimen ll| inches long, from Papeete, Tahiti, Society Islands. 



ANTENNARIIDAE. 

 Antennarius bigibbus (LACEPf:DE). 



BucEKiCH, Atlas Iclilh., lS(i."i, 5. p. 10, •-'!, pi, I'.MI, tiji. 3. 

 (.iuNTHEU, Fisclic dor .Siidseo, 1S70, 5, ]). 16.5, t;if. 105, fig. B. 

 Loiihius bigibbus L.\c., Hist. Nat. Poi.ss., 179S, 1, p. 325. 



No. 05944, a specimen 24 inches long from Fakarava, Paiimotu Islands. 



