Jordan and Evermann. — Fishes of North America. 1749 



Diodon nigi-olineatus, Ayees, Bost. Joiirn. Nat. Hist., IV, 1842, 68, Brook Haven, Long 



Island. 

 Diodon /uliginoms, De K.A.Y, N.T. Fauna: Fishes, 324, pi. 55, tig. 181, 1842, New York; 



young. 

 Diodon verrucosis, De Kay, N. T. Fauna: Fishes, 325, pi. 56, tig. 184, 1842, New York; 



young. 

 Chiiomycterus geometrictis, Kaup, Wiegm. Archiv 1847, var. a a,m\b; GOnthee, Cat.,vin, 



310, 1870; GooDE, Proc.U. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 109; Jordan & Gilbert, Synopsis, 863, 



1883 ; not IModon geometricus, Bloch & Schneider. 



2166. CHILOMYCTERUS SPIXOSUS (Linuaius). 



This species, according to Giinther, differs from Chiiomycterus schoepji 

 ouly in the coloration, the dark lines on the back being absent. AVe have 

 seen no specimens of it and do not know whether it is a distinct species 

 or not. In case the two species are identical the name sjnnosus has priority. 

 West Indies and coast of Brazil; not seen by us. {sjnnosits, spinous.) 



Guamaiacu atinga, Maecgeave, Hist. Brasil., 168, 1648, Brazil. 



Orbis muricatus, BancericHi Guamaiacu J^^ijii/a, Willcghby, Historia Piscium, 145, 1686, 

 Brazil ; description copied from Maecgeave, but with a new figure representing Chiio- 

 mycterus schoepfi. 



Atinga alter minor orbicularis, Listee, Willughby, Hist. Pise, 155, 1686. 



Guamaiacu atinga, Maecgeave, Hist. Nat., 168, 1648, "in mari." 



Ostracion svbrotundus ventre glabra, Artedi, Gen. 59, No. 15, 1738. 



Diodon sinnosus, Linn.eus, Syat. Nat., Ed. x, 335, 1758, India ; based on Artedi. 



Le Diodon orbe, Lac£pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., II, 16, 1798, Rio Janeiro. 



Diodon geometricus. Block &. Schneider, Ichth., 513, pi. 96, 1801, America. 



Cyclichthys cornutus, Kaup, Wiegm. Archiv 1855, 231, Bahia. 



Chiiomycterus geometricus, var. y, Gl'NTHEE, Cat., 311, 1870 ; type of Cyclichthys cornutus, 

 Kaup. 



2167. CHILOMYCTERITS AXTILLARUM, Jordan & Kutter. 



Allied to Chiiomycterus schwpfi, differing in having the whole body cov- 

 ered with black hexagonal reticulations instead of parallel lines. Supra- 

 orbital spines 2, 1 frontal spine, a single spine below and in front of eye, 

 2 between eye and gill opening; interorbital space deeply concave; a 

 transverse series of cirri on chin, and nearly all of the spines along the 

 margin of the belly have cirri, but there is none above the eyes. Spines 

 short and flat. Color in alcohol, above, chestnut brown, paler on sides, 

 yellowish below, the body everywhere covered with reticulating black 

 lines inclosing more or less nearly hexagonal areas somewhat smaller than 

 the pupil ; on the belly the lines become heavier, so that Poey's character of 

 "orange spots in a dark background" is not far wrong; an ocellated 

 black spot about the size of the eye above the pectoral, another behind it, 

 and 1 on each side of the dorsal; a black blotch on chin in front of the 

 row of cirri and another at each end. Cuba and Jamaica. Here described 

 from specimens taken at Kingston, {antillarum, of the Antilles.) 



Chiiomycterus fuliginosus au species dubia? Poey, Synopsis Peso. Cuba, 429, 1868, Havana. 

 Chiiomycterus antillarum, Jordan & Rutter, Proo. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1897, 131, Jamaica. 

 (Type, No. 5056, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. Coll. Rev. J. S. Roberts. ) 



