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opening, the lateral line obsolete and no groove before the eye. The 

 species are numerous in the Indian seas. They are small and rather 

 brightly colored. 



(balistes, (XTtovs, footless.) 



a. Body covered from snout to tail with many oblique wavy reddish lines; D. Ill, 

 25, A. 24; scales 50; spines on tail in a black patch muluhdm, 6. 



aa. Body greenish above, brownish or whitish below; 4 or 5 oblique stripes on sides 

 posteriorly; 3 blue stripes vertically from eye; the colors anteriorly separated 

 by a blue line; 3 blue stripes vertically from eye; a pale patch under caudal 



spines 



aculcatus, 7. 



6. BALISTAPUS UNDULATUS (Park). 

 TOKUSA ZAME (SCOURIN(t RUSH SHARK). 



Balistes imdiUatiis Mungo Park, Trans. Linn. Soc, III, 1797, p. 37.— Guntiiek, 



Cat. Fish., VIII, 1870, p. 226; Red Sea, Zanzibar, Moluccas, Sumatra, 



Amboyna, Ceram, Cebu, Louisiades, China, Japan. 

 Balwtes lineatus Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 466, pi. lxxxvii. 



Coromandel. — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., 1865-69, p. 118, pi. xv, fig. 2. 

 Balistes aculeatus viridis Bennett, Fish, Ceylon, 1830, pi. x; Ceylon. 

 Balistes lamouroiixi Quoy and Gaimard, Yoy. Uranie Zool., 1824, p. 208, pi. 



XLVII, fig. 1. 

 Balistes sesquilineatus Bennett, Beechey's Yoy., 1839, p. 69, pi. xxi, fig. 3; Tahiti. 

 Batistes porcatus Grot^ov:, Syst., Ed. Gray, 1854, p. 32; Indian seas. 



Head 3; depth 1^; D. III., 2.5 to 27; A. 22 to 24; scales in lateral 

 line 41, or about 50 from gill opening to under part of caudal; no 

 groove before eye; eye 3^ to .5^ in head, 2 to 4 in snout. Head higher 

 than long, slightly concave above; lips broad and fleshy; jaws equal; 

 patch of 4 enlarged scales behind gill opening. A transverse series of 

 24 scales running from the origin of the dorsal fln to the vent; dorsal 

 and anal tins rather low, with rounded profile; caudal fin subtruncate; 

 pectoral obtusely rounded; ventral toothed; double series of lateral 

 spines, 4 to 8 in number, on the caudal peduncle. Color bluish- violet, 

 fin rays yellow or golden-rose; membranes hyaline-blue or violet; head 

 and body with numerous oblique and somewhat undulated reddish or 

 yellowish stripes, two broader than the others, proceed from the lips 

 and are confluent posteriorly; spinous dorsal reddish with brownish 

 yellow and black margins; the spines on each side of the tail in a black 

 patch; base of caudal washed with blackish. (Bleeker, Giinther.) 



Of this species Giinther records a stufl'ed specimen from Japan, 

 probably from the Riukiu Islands. Another from unknown locality 

 is in the Imperial Museum at Tokio. It is common in the East Indies. 



{undulatus, waved.) 



