TICTRAODONTIDAE. 165 



from soft dorsal to front of anal 2.26; snout 1.17 in head; orbit 4.6; dorsal spine 

 2.3, and reaching half way from its base to soft dorsal; dorsal I, 35; anal 32. 



Color dark brown with very faint traces of cross-bars; dorsal spine banded; 

 soft dorsal and anal yellowish; caudal darker than body; broad l)ars across chin, 

 throat and snout. 



OSTRACIIDAE. 

 Ostracion tuberculatum LiNNfi. 

 Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1758, p. 331. Jordan it Se.m.e, Hull. U. S. Bur. Fi.sh., 190.i, 25, p. 367. 



Two specimens 5 and Sie inches long from Manga Reva. M. C. Z. 29696 

 (1 specimen). 



TETRAODONTIDAE. 



Spheroides angusticeps (Jenyns). 



Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898, pt. 2, p. 1731. 



Tetrodon angusticeps Jenyns, Zool. Voy. Beagle. Fish, 1842, pt. 4, p. 154, pi. 28. 



Two examples, No. 3251, 3252, M. C. Z. 29664, respectively 12 and IO5 



inches long from Wreck Bay, Chatham Island. 



Spheroides lobatus (Steindachner). 



Jordan, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1895, ser. 2, 5, p. 490. 



Canlhoga<iter ''lobatus Steindachner, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1870, 61, p. 18, pi. 5, fig. 3. 



One specimen 2| inches long from Toboguilla Island, two fathoms of water 



among coral. 



Spheroides annulatus (Jenyns). 



Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898, pt. 2, p. 1735. 

 Tetrodon annulatus Jenyns, Zool. Voy. Beagle. Fish, 1842, pt. 4, p. 153. 



One specimen 8^ inches long, off Perico Island, Panama Bay in six feet of 

 water. 



Three specimens. No. 3208-3210, M. C. Z. 29657, respectively 111, 8s and 

 12 inches long from Wreck Bay, Chatham Island. 



Spheroides formosus (Gunther). 



Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898, pt. 2, p. 1736. 

 Tetrodon formosus GOnther, Cat., 1870, 8, p. 283. 



One specimen 9 inches long from Panama Bay. 



Two specimens 1^ and 9| inches long from off Perico Island, in six feet of 

 water. M. C. Z. 29693 (1 specimen). 



Tetraodon hispidus LiNxfi. 

 Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1758, p. 333. Gilbert & Starks, Mem. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1904, 4, p. 159. 



No. 3120, a specimen 122 inches long from Naos Island, Panama Bay. 



