21(i SCLERODEKMI. 



examples with some irregular oblique black lines following the series 

 of the scales. 



Tropical parts of the Atlantic, especially in the American parts ; 

 rare in the East Indies. 



n-h. Half-grown. Bahia. From Dr. Wncherer's Collection. 



f. Half-grown : stuffed. Bahia. 



d-e. Adult and half-grown. St. Croix. Purchased of Mr. Stevens. 



f-i. Adult and young : skins. Jamaica. 



k-J. Adult (16 inches long, without caudal filament). West Indies. 



wi-n. Half-grown : skins. West Indies. 



n-p. Adult : skins. Capo of Good Hope. 



q. Adult. Amboyna. From Madame Ida Pfeiifer's Collection. 



r. Half-grown : skin. India. Presented by G. U. Waterhouse, 



Esq. 

 s-iv. Adult (18 inches long, without caudal tilament)and half-grown : 



stuffed. 

 x-z. Young. 



«. Half-grown: skin. From Gronow's Collection. 

 /3. Adult: skeleton. Purchased. 



5. Balistes forcipatus. 



Stip-viscli, Xieuhof, Braz. Lant- en Zee-R. ii. p. 27o (c. tig. bona) ; 



WilliKjhhy, Append, p. 21, tab. J. 22. 

 Jialistes forcipatus, Gm. L. i. p. 1472 ; Hollard, Ann. Sc. Nat. i. 1854, 



p. 307. 



piiuctatus, Gni. L. I. c. 



ciliaris, JBl. Schn. p. 471. 



J). :i I 28. A. 25. L. lat. Go. 



Tail with scarcely a trace of minute tubercles. Forty-three scales 

 in a transverse series running from the origin of the soft dorsal fin 

 to the vent. A patch of enlarged osseous plates behind the giU- 

 oi)ening. About four of the anterior dorsal rays are ]3roduced into 

 long filaments ; and also the upper and lower caudal lobes are pro- 

 duced. Side of the head with curved blue lines, which are more or 

 less broken up into series of spots. Bluish lines radiate also from the 

 eye. Body and dorsal and anal fins with numerous small blackish- 

 brown spots. A large patch, without spots, on the side of the trunk 

 behind the gill-opening. 



Tropical and subtropical parts of the Atlantic. 

 {/. Fine specimen, 17 inches long. Cape Verde Islands. Presented 

 by the Rev. R. T. Lowe. 



b. Adult : skin. Fernando Po. Purchased, 



c. Adult. West Africa. Purchased of Mr. Ualtou. 



(/. Adult : skeleton. Cape Verde Islands. Presented by tliu Itev. 

 R. T. Lowe. 



H. Balistes vidua. 



Ii(iitin/,i. pi. 17. iig. W. 



