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167. Spheroides borealis Jordan & Snyder. 

 Chinnampo (No. 4261a). 



Fig. 41. Spheroides borealis Jordan & Snyder. (Proc. U. fcj. N. M., Vol. XXIV, p. 245.) 



168. Spheroides vermicularis (Temminck & Schlegel). 

 Chinnampo (No. 4111a). 



169. Spheroides basilewskianus (Basilewsky) . (Plate VIII, fig. 1.) 

 Tetraodon basilewskianus Basilewsky, I chthy agraphia Chinee Borealis, p. 262; 



Sea off Peking. 



Chinnampo (No. 4573). 



A large specimen agrees with the scanty account of Tetraodon basilewskianus 

 and differs from the closely related Japanese species Spheroides alboplumbeus in 

 the total absence of white spots. It may be provisionally accepted as a valid 

 species. 



The following description is from two examples 10 inches long, taken at 

 Chinnampo, Ivorea: 



D. 13; A. 13; head 3; depth 3; eye 8; snout 2.4; interorbital 2; least depth 

 of caudal peduncle 3.2 in head; width of body 3.33 in length. Back and belly 

 with small, stout prickles; caudal truncate; no lateral body fold; body rather 

 stout, elongate, greatest depth through gill-opening; ventral outline very convex, 

 dorsal less so; head broad; snout blunt; interorbital area slightly convex, broad; 

 caudal peduncle depressed, tapering, semi-conical; nostrils papilliform, elevated, 

 as near tip of snout as eye; eye small, elevated, entirely above level of pectoral 

 base; gill-openings vertical, equal to pectoral base, inner flap evident; mouth 

 terminal, broad, teeth large, cutting edges concave; anterior portion of teeth 

 slightly produced, bluntly pointed. 



Dorsal high, fifth ray longest, 1.5 in head; posterior rays gradually short- 

 ened to near last, then abruptly shortened; distance from insertion of dorsal to 

 tip of snout two and one-half times that from base of caudal, the latter equal- 



