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region between the two dor.saL, and the other not extending- on the 

 soft dorsal at all, blackish brown; back blackish brown behind second 

 dorsal l)and to the base of the upper caudal ray; on the throat a round 

 black spot on each side; head and lower surface of the body marked 

 with various brownish spots and blotches becoming- large and few in 

 number on the posterior sides of body; soft dorsal, anal, and pectoral 

 fins plain; caudal plain except indistinct blackish lunate bar from base 

 of upper ra3^s to ])ase of lower and marked w^ith small whitish spots; 

 length 2j^jr inches. Here described from Wakanoura, from the only 

 specimen of this pretty and interesting little fish taken by us. It dif- 

 fers a little in coloi- from Bleeker's figure, but it is probably the same 

 species. 



{TtpioDv^ saw; ovpa, tail.) 



13. ALUTERA Cuvier. 



Lcs Ahiieres Cuviek, Regne Anim., 1st eil., 1817, p. 153 {monoreros). 

 Alutera Agassiz, Spix, Pise. Brasil, 1829, p. 137 {monoreros). 

 Aluteria, Aluterms, etc., corrected spelling. 



Body elongate, strongly compressed, covered with minute scales; 

 snout short, the anterior profile convex; mouth and teeth essentially 

 as in llonacanthus, but the lower jaw more projecting, so that the 

 lower teeth are directed obliquely upward and backward. Gill open- 

 ing an oblique slit, longer than eye, situated below and in advance 

 of eye, its posterior end behind base of pectorals; pelvic bone long, 

 falcate, movable under the skin, without spine at its extremity; dorsal 

 spine small, inserted over the eye, rough, but without barbs; soft 

 dorsal long and anal long, each of 45 to 50 rays; caudal fin short, 

 shorter than head, almost truncate, the middle rays little produced; 

 pectorals small. Size, large. 



(tv, pri Amative; XvT?'/fj^ a deliverer; or (according to Dumeril), cxXovrog, 

 unwashed, sordid.) 



17. ALUTERA MONOCEROS (Osbeck). 



Capriscus murium (k)itibus ^nimUis Klein, Ichth. Missus, III, p. 25, 1742, pi. iii, 



fig. 9; very bad, no locality. 

 Balistes monoceros Osbeck, Iter Chinensis, 1757, p. 110; China. — Linn.eus, Syst. 



Nat, 10th ed., I, 1758, p. 327 (after Osbeck). 

 Balistes ohlongiusculus, etc., Gronow, Zoophyl., 1765, No. 193; Indian seas. 

 "iLija barbuda Parra, Dis. Piezas Hist. Nat., 1787, p. 48, pi. xxii, fig. 2; Habana. 

 Balistes kleinii Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1788; Indian seas (after Gronow and Klein). 

 Balistes barbatus Walbaum, Artedi Piscium, III, 1792, p. 464 (after Klein). 

 Balistes monoceros var. unicolor Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 463 



(after Gmelin). 

 Balistes serraticornis Fremixville, Nouv. Bull. So. Soc. Philom., No. 67, 1813, 



p. 249, pi. IV, fig. 1. 

 Aluter.es berardi Lesson, Voyage Coquille, Zool., 1828, p. 108, pi. vii; New Guinea. 

 Alutera einerea Schlegel, Fauna Japon., Poiss., 1846, p. 292, pi. cxxxi, fig. 1; 



Nagasaki. 

 Alutarius amphacuntlius Bleeker, Yerh. Bat. Gen., Balist., XXIV, p. 23, pi. 11, 



fig. 5; East Indies. 



