238 REVIEW OF TETRAODONTID^. 



1884, 147) is a full description of the coloration of Sphwroides spengleri, 

 together with the following account of the variations in the prickles: 



"Young exami^les have the back and belly covered with rather large, 

 not close-set, stellate prickles, as described in the original account of 

 Tetrodon nephelus. Of the larger specimens, some have prickles only 

 on the back, others on the belly only, one or two only a small area be- 

 hind the eyes near the median line, while a majority of the largest (as 

 well as some of the smaller ones) are entirely smooth. There is no 

 doubt that these specimens all belong to one species, and that this is 

 the original Tetrodon nephelus of Goode and Bean. The loss of the 

 prickles is probably to some extent dependent on age." 



Half-grown exam^^les usually correspond very closely to the current 

 descriptions of G. spengleri^ and there seems to be no doubt that the 

 original Tetrodon spengleri of Bloch, was based on such specimens. Te^ 

 rodo7i plum ieri is, evidently the same and the '■'■ sphceroide tuhercule" of 

 Lacei)ede is founded on a iront view of the same fish. Eanzani's de- 

 scription and figure of Tetrodon marmoratus, as Professor Goode has al- 

 ready stated, rej) resents 8. spengleri very well. 



This description of Lacepede was originally accompanied only by a 

 French form of the name, but in a reprint of Lacepede, edited by Pillot 

 in Paris, in 1831, the Latin form, Sphceroides tuberculatus is supplied. 



7. Sphaeroides maculatus. 



Toad-fi>ili Scbopf, "Beobacht. Gesellscli. Naturf. Freunde, viii, 189, 1788 

 (^Rhode Island). 



Tetrodon hispidus vai*. Walbaiim, Artedi Piscium, 1792,594 (after Schopf) (not 

 of Liunseus). 



Tetrodon hispidus var. maculatus Bloch «& Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 504 (after 

 Schopf). 



Tetrodon /wrj^MMS Mitchlll, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. 1, 473, pi. 6, f. 5, 1815 (New 

 York) ; Cuvier, R^gue Animal, Ed. ii, 1828 (name only). Storer, Rept, Fishes, 

 Mass. 1839, 169 (Massachusetts) ; DeKay, New York Fauna, Fishes, 1842, 321, 

 pi. 55, f. 178 (New York); Ayies, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist. 1842,285 (Brook- 

 haven, Long Island) ; Baird, Ninth Smithsonian Rept., 1854,352 (Great Egg 

 Harbor.N.J.); Storer, Synopsis Fish. N. A., 1840, 241 Bean, Proc. U. S.Nat. 

 Mus., 1880, 76 (Wood's Holl, Noank, Conn., East shore of Va., Cohasset Nar- 

 rows, Mass.) ; Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 619, (Charleston) ; 

 Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. A., 1883, 861, Jordan Cat. Fish. N. Am. 141, 

 1885. 



GastropJiysus turgidus Gill, Cat. Fish, East Coast, 1861 (name only). 



Cirrhisovlua turgidus Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1878, 366 (Beau- 

 fort) ; Goode & Bean, Bull. Essex Inst., 1879, xi, 3 (Salem, Provincetown, 

 Mass.) ; Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1879, 109 (St. John's River, Florida). 



Chilichthys turgidus Gill, Cat. Fish. East Coast N. A., 15, 1873 (name only). 



Habitat. — Atlantic coast of United States ; Cape Ann to Northern 

 Florida. 



This well-known species is common along our Atlantic coast, its range 

 apparently not extending farther southward than the Carolinas. The 

 numerous specimens before us are from Wood's Holl and Beaufort. On 



