142 REPORT OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES. 



August 5, 1909; two specimens 3-5 inch (16.5 mm. and 18 mm.) long 

 taken August 3, 1908. September 2, 1909, seine, Cornelius Island, 4 

 specimens ranging from 16 to 70 mm. 

 From July to October 15th, young ^ inch to 1 inch long are very abundant 

 at Woods Hole on sandy beaches. Many young specimens, an inch 

 long and upwards, are taken in the seines on the shady beaches through 

 July and August. The adult reaches a length of ten inches. 



153. Spheroides testudineus (Linnaeus), 



Geog. Dist.: West Indies north to Newport. Not recorded from New 



York waters. 

 Season in R. I.: Has been taken at Newport. (Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. 



Sci., Phila., 1870, 120.) 

 Size: Reaches a length of seven or eight inches. 



153. Spheroides trichocephalus (Cope). 



This species is known only from Cope's description of a small specimen 

 four inches long taken by Mr. Samuel Powell in the Gulf Stream off 

 Newport. Possibly the young of *Sp/ieroides pac/ti/^aster. (Cope, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1870, 120.) 



DIODONTID^. The Porcupine-Fishes. 



154. Chilomycterus schoepfli (Walbaum). Porcupine-fish; Swell-toad; 



Puffer. 



Geog. Dist.: Cape Cod to Florida, abundant south ki shallow water. In 

 Massachusetts, reported in Massachusetts Bay (B. S. N. H.), Woods 

 Hole (Baird, 1873, Smith, 1898); in Connectiuct (Ayres, 18-43), at 

 Stratford, at New Haven (Liasley, 1844), Noank (Bean, 1880). Occa- 

 sional on Long Island coast (Bean, 1903). 



Season in R. I.: Two specimens from Rhode Island are in the U. S. 

 National Museum; one was taken at Newport (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 1880, 75); the other was taken at Watch Hill by the U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission, September 18, 1874. (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 24.) In 

 1903, Mr. Fowler, of Wickford, took a specimen in a dredge in Narra- 

 gansett Bay, opposite Hamilton. 



Food: Crustacea, molluscs. 



Rate of Growth: Specimen three inches long seined at Longport, N. J. 

 August 29, 1887 (Bean, 1903); specimens from 2h to 5 inches long at 

 Wods Hole, in the latter part of September and October (Smith) 

 1898). Adults reach a length of six to ten inches. 



