JORDAN AND THOMPSON: FISHES OBTAINED IN JAPAN IN 1911. 269 



Family TETRAODONTID^. 



227. Spheroides spadiceus (Richardson). 



Osaka, No. 6430a-b; Shimonoseki, No. 6179a-c. 



Three young; some with a dark blotch at base of dorsal, upper jaw-teeth 

 grooved, with parallel ridges. 



228. Spheroides poecilonotus (Temminck & Schlegel). 

 Shimonoseki, No. 6175a. 



Spots above pectorals confluent across the back. The pore-line across the 

 nose is convex anteriorly, not posteriori}^, as described and figured by Richardson, 

 whose Chinese fish alboplumbeus is probably different from the Japanese form 

 called poecilonotus. The specimen called Spheroides ocellatus by Jordan and Ever- 

 mann, from Formosa, is the same species as this. 



229. Spheroides pardalis (Temminck & Schlegel). 

 Shimonoseki, No. 6269a. 



230. Spheroides chrysops (Hilgendorf ) . 

 Misaki, No. 6150a. 



Fig. 39. Spheroides chrysops (Hilgendorf). (From Proc. U. S. N. M., Vol. XXIV, p. 249). 



Distinguished from other species of the genus by the short and deep caudal 

 peduncle, the extension of the pectoral over half-way to dorsal, and by the color. 



231. Spheroides borealis Jordan & Snj'der. 

 (Mem. Carn. Mus., Vol. VI, fig. 41, p. 46). 

 Misaki, No. 6116a. 



232. Canthigaster rivulatus (Temminck & Schlegel). 

 Misaki, No. 6163a-d. 



