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Seba, in Amsterdam, of Mr. Lillja, in Loudou, of Mr. (Don) Saltcros, in 

 Chelsey, and of seeing various specimens at Stratford, and "in spring- 

 garden." No otlier kinds of lislies appear to have been preserved 

 except " the monli- or Angel-fish Anglis, aliis Mermaid fiah,''^ probably a 

 species of Squatinu, which he saw in London at the Naggshead and 

 in the town of Chelsey. The art of taxidermy was evidently not 

 thoroughly established in 1738. 



Of Ostraeion hlcaudalis, he remarks, "Vidi Loiidiui, in the White 

 Bear," and "Apud D'" Sebam vidi." Ostraeion trigonus he saw "Apud 

 Sir Hans Sloane et in ]S"aggshead"; Ostraeion friqiieter and 0. qiiadri- 

 cornis, "Londiui in the ISTaggshead et apud Mr. Lillia." 



The speciaieus were all said to have come from India. 



OSTRACION TRIGONUS, Linu. 



Ostraeion tr'ujonm, Linn/eus, Syst. N.at. eel. s, 1758, i, j). 330, No. 2: ed. xii,17G6, i, p. 408. — 

 Block, Ichtbyologie, iv, 1787, p. 115, pi. cxxxv {coffre a perles). — Gmelin, 

 Linu. Syst. Nat. 1788, i, p. 1441 (assiguing erroneously 14 rays to first'dorsal). — 

 LACfcPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., etc. i, 1798, pp. 465-466; ed.ii, 1819, p. 842.— 

 Schneider, Blocli Syst. Ichtb. 1801, p. 499 (erroneously described with orbital 

 spines). -Shaw, Gen. Zool. v, 1804, p. 422.— Cuvier, Regne Anim. ed. 1, 

 1817, p. 154 : ed. ii, 1829, p. 375, note.— Kaup, Ai'cb. fiir Naturg. 1855, p. 218 (a 

 quoted name: Kaup did not profess. to have examjiles). — Hollard, Ann. Sci. 

 Nat. vii, 1856, p. 150.— Gunther, Cat. Fisb Brit. Mus. viii, 1870, p. 256. 



Ostraeion trigonum, Poey, Mem. sob. Hist. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1861, p. 362. 



Lactophrys trigonus, Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fisb,Rept. and Ampbib. 1839, ii, p. 324, fig. 

 102.— Poev, Euum. Pise. Cubcns. 1876, p. 174. 



Ostraeion Yalei, Storer, Bost. Jouru. Nat. Hist, i, 1837, p. 353, pi. viii. 



Lactoplirys Yalei, Dekay, Zool. N. Y. Fisbes, 1842, p. 362.— Storer, Mem. Am. Acad. Sci. 

 viii, 1861, p. 429, pi. xxxv, fig. 3 ; Hist. Fisb Mass. 1867, p. 429, pi. xxv, fig. 3. 



Laetophrgs ovice2)s, Kaup, 1. c. 



Ostraeion (Lwtojihrys) unduJatiis, Poey, Rep. Fis. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, p. 441 (a specific 

 name founded solely on color). 



Lactopkrys undulatus, Poey, Euum. Pise. Cubeus. 1876, p. 176. 



Ostracium expansum, Cope, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1870, j). 474, figs. 9, 10. 



Piseis triangularis clusii, cornihus earens, Lister, in App. Willugbby, Hist. Pise. 1686, p. 

 156.— Ray, Syn. Method. Pise. 1713, p. 44. 



Ostraeion triangulatus, limhis figurarum hcxagonarum eminentibus, aeuleis diiohus in imo 

 ventre, Artedi, Gen. Pise. 1738, p. 56, No. 7. 



Ostraeion triangulatus, linibis figuram hexagonam eminentibus, aeuleis duobus in imo ventre, 

 Artedi, Syn. Pise. 1738, p. 85, No. 11. 



Ostraeion polyodon tetragonus, abdomine pone fticorHJ, Linn^us, Iter Scand. j). 160. 



Speeies duhia an Lcetophrys trigo7iusf Poey, Rej). Fis. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, p. 441. 



Chapin, Parra, Desc. Dif. Piez. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1787, p. 31, pl.xvii.fig. i, vide POEY, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. Phila. 1863, p. 183. 



V Ostraeion iriangulo-iubereule, Bonnaterre, Encyc. Method. 1788, p. 21,pl. xiii. 



Chapin, Cuba. Trunk-fish, Jamaica. 



distribution. 



Barbados (Schomburgk). 



St. Croix (Gunther). 



Jamaica (Gilnther). 



Bermuda (Goodo). 



Cuba (Poey, National Museum). 



Holmes Hole, Mass. (Storer). 



Chesapeake Bay, October, 1877 (Lugger). 



St. Martins (Cope). 



Tortugas (National Museum). 



Bahia (Gilnther). 



Bahamas (National MusQum). 



