BALISTES. 135 



Balistes mediuilla, Quoy fy Gaim. Voy. Uran. Poiss. pi. 46. f. 2 (not good) . 



erythropteron, Less. Voy. Coqu. Poiss. pi. 10. f. 3. 



ductus, Bleek. Act. Soc. Scient. Indo-Nederl. ii. Amb. p. 96. 



Balistes (Balistapus) cinctus, Bleek. Atl, Ichth. v. pi. 228. f. 1, and Ned. Tydschr. Dierk. iii. 1865, 

 p. 24. 



Mozambique. Bed Sea. Indian Ocean and Archipelago. China. Japan. Polynesia. 



462. Balistes stellatus. [200.] 



Balistes stellatus, Lacep. i. p. 350, t. 15. f. 1. 



stellaris, Bl. Schn. p. 476. 



brasiliensis, Bl. Schn. p. 470. 



? Russell, pp. 22, 23. 



Balistes vachellii, Richards. Zool. Voy. Sulph. Fish. p. 129. 



phalliatus, Richards. Ichth. China. 



Leiurus stellatus, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. v. pi. 215, and Ned. Tydschr. Dierk. iii. 1865, p. 21. 



Zanzibar. Mauritius. Mozambique. Bed Sea. Indian Ocean and Archipelago. 

 Neio Ireland. 



463. Balistes viridescens. [238.] 



Balistes aculeatus major, Forsk. no. 46. 



viridescens, Lacep. i. p. 378 ; Bl. Schn. p. 477. 



castaneus, Richards. Ichth. Voy. Sulph. p. 126, pi. 59. figs. 5 & 6. 



Balistes (Pseudobalistes) viridescens, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. v. t. 231. f. 2; and Ned. Tydschr. Dierk. iii. 

 1865, p. 21. 



Zanzibar. Mauritius. Bed Sea. East-Indian archipelago. 



464. Balistes niger. Plate XIX. fig. 1. [163.] 



' Balistes niger, Osbeck, Reise, p. 386. 



ringens, Bl. Schn. p. 472. 



piceus, Poey. 



Melichthys ringens, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. v. pi. 220. f. 2; and Ned. Tydschr. Dierk. iii. 1865, p. 21. 



Bleeker (wbo follows Swainson not only in adopting this as the type of a distinct 

 genus, but in the classical error involved in the formation of the name) enumerates as 

 one of the generic characters the smoothness of the caudal scales. In the Zanzibar 

 specimen (13 inches long) there are eight series of caudal scales provided with spines 

 directed forwards, and forming very distinct keels. Bloch also represents the keels in 

 his figure. 



Seychelles. Indian Ocean and Archipelago. China. Pacific. Havanna. 



