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than ^ length, and iu the young the vertical diameter exceeding the 

 longitudinal. Form varying much with age, the body becoming more 

 elongate, the lins comparatively shorter, the eye much smaller, and a 

 hump being developed above the mouth, topped by an osseous tubercle. 

 Dark gray; sides grayish lirown, Avith silvery reflections; belly dusky; 

 a broad blackish bar running along the bases of the dorsal, caudal, and 

 anal lins. Pelagic, inhabiting most temperate and tropical seas, swim- 

 ming slowly about, near the surface, the high dorsal above the surface. 

 Common northward to England, Cajie Cod, and San Francisco ; rare in the 

 West Indies. It reaches a weight of 300 to 1,500 pounds. The largest 

 specimen known to ns was taken at Kedondo Beach, California, in June, 

 1893, and mounted by Mr. T. Shooter, of Los Angeles. This was 8 feet 2 

 inches long and weighed in life 1,800 pounds. The Pacific Ocean form, 

 which ranges from San Francisco to Maiatlan, seems to be fully identical 

 vfxth. Mola moJa. (Eu.) (mo?a, a millstone.) 



Tetrodon mola, Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 334, 412, 1758, Mediterranean; after Ostracion 



cathetoplatcics subrotunchis, Artedi, Genera, 61, 1738. 

 Tetrodon lime, LAcfipKDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., i, 509, 1708. 



Mola aculcata, Kolbeuter, Nov. Comm. I'etropol., x, 1766, 337, pi. 8, figs. 2 auil 3. 

 Orthragoriscus hispidios, Block &. ScHNEmEK, Syst. Icbth., 511,1801. 

 Orthragoriscus or Luna piscis, Rondelet, De Piscibus, 424. 

 Diodon carinatu*, Mitchill, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, n, 1815, 264, pi. 5, fig. 1, New 



York. 

 Acanthosoma caHnaHim, De Kay, New York, Fauna: Fishes, 330, pi. 55, flg. 179, 1842. 

 Mola rotunda, Cuvier, Tableau Elem. Nat. Hist., 323, 1798 ; after Tetrodon mola, Linn.eds ; 



Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 865, 1883. 

 Orthagoriscus mola, Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Icbtb., 510, 1801. 

 Orthagoriscus faseiatus. Block & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 511, 1801. 

 Cephalus brevis, Skaw, Gen. Zoology, v, 437, pi. 175, 1804. 

 Cephalus pallasianug, Shaw, Gen. Zool., v, 440, 1804. 

 Orthagoriscus gpinosiis, Cuvier, E6gne Anim., 1817. 

 Cephalus orthagoriscus, Eisso, Eur. Merid., in, 173, 1826. 

 Ozodura orsini, Ranzani, Nov. Comm. Ac. Sci. Inst. Bonon., iii, 82, 1839, Mediterranean 



Sea; Ranzani, I.e., pi. 6, 1839. 

 Tympanomium planci, Ranzani, I. c, table, 1839, Adriatic Sea. 

 THplanchias nasus, Ranzani, I. c, table, "in marei siculd." 

 Trematopsis willugbei, Ranzani, I. c., table, in oceano. 

 Orthragoriscus retzii, Ranzani, I. c. table, no locality. 

 Orthragoriscus ghini, RANZANI, I. c, table, Mediterranean Sea. 

 Orthragoriscus rondeletii, Ranzani, I.e., Mediterranean Sea. 

 Orthragoriscus blochii, Ranzani, I. c, "in mari oceauo." 

 Orthragoriscus alexandrini, Ranzani, I. c, Adriatic Sea. 

 Orthragoriicus redl, Ranzani, I. c, Mediterranean Sea. 

 Orthragoriscus oculeatus, Ranzani, I.e., no locality. 



Orthragoriscu.^ lunaris, Gronow, Cat. Fi.shes, Ed. Gray, 165, 1854, Mediterranean Sea. 

 Orthragoriscus Solaris, Gronow, Cat. Fishes, Ed. Gray, 165, 1854, Mediterranean Sea. 

 Orthragoriscus elegans, Ranzani, I.e., Atlantic Ocean. 

 Orthragoriscus battarm, Ranzani, I.e., Adriatic Sea. 

 Aledon storeri, Castelnau, Poiss. Afr. Aiistr., 75, 76. 

 Aledon capensis, Castelnau, I. c. 



PaUasia pallasi, Nardo, Ann. Sc. Regno Lombard. Venet., X, 112, 1840. 

 Orthagoriscus analis, Aykes, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci., n, 1854, 31, fig. 54, San Francisco. 

 Mola nasus, Steenstrup <t Lutken, Overs. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Forh., 36, 1863. 

 Mola retzii, Steenstrup & Lutken, I. c. 

 ? Orthagoriscus, sp., Swinhoe, Ann. Sc Mag. Nat. Hist., xil, 1863, 225. 



