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SCLERODKRiri. 



II. Carapace four- or Jire-n'di/cd, witlioiit spivcs. 



7. Ostracion cubicus. 



O.stracion prior, Aldrov. iv. c. 19, p. •jOO; J(;«.s<()«, p. 125, tab. So, 



ii--. 7. 

 Wiihiiikhii, Append, p. -20, tab. J. 10 and J. 12 ; Vahnt. p. 380, tig. 120 ; 



6'cirt, iii. tab. 24. tig. 11. 

 Ostracion, sp., Artedi, Synon. p. 8-5. no. 8, and p. 84. no. ; Genera, 



pp. 5o, 50. nos. 1 & 4 ; Grunov. Mas. i. \t. 04. no. 1 19 ; Zoop/ii/l. 



p. 44. no. 173. 

 Ostracion tetragouus, i. Mas. Ad. Fred. p. 50 ; lihrk. Atl. Ichth. 



Ostrac. p. 39, pi. 1. tig. 2, and pi. 3. tig. 2 ; Gunih. in Fish. Zanz. 



p. 129 ; i)ff//, Jy^7t. .VfltoJ. p. 254. 



tuljcvculatus, L. Syst. Nat. i. p. 400. 



cubicus, L. I. c. p. 410; Bloch, Aitd. Fisch. i. p. 115, taf. 137; 



Lace'p. i. p. 4(51, pi. 22. tig. 1 ; Biipp. Aflas, Fixch. p. 3 ; Bleek. 



Vcrh. But. Gen. xxiv. Balist. p. 35, pi. 7. tig. 14 ; Lefehv. Voy, 



Foists, p. 238, pi. 8; Hullard, Ann. 8c. Xat. 1857, Tii. p. 102. 

 Abu senduk, Fur.'<k. F)escr. An. p. 17. no. 48. 

 Ostracion deux-tubercules, Lncep. i. p. 459. 



bituborculatus, Bl. Schn. p. 501. 



cyanurus, R't'q)}}. Atl, Fische, p. 4, taf. 1. fig. 2 ; TloUard, Ann. Sc, 



Nat. 1857, Tii. p. 167. 



argus, Biipp. I. c. fig. 1. 



? Ostracion maculatus, Quo;/ Sf- Gaim. J'oy. Uran. Zool. p. 218. 

 Ostracion inimaculatus, Sclde;/. Faun. Jnpon. Puiss. p. 290 ; Blcck. 



Nal. Ichth. Japan, p. 55 ; Brevoort, Not. Jap. Fi-ih. p. 284. 

 tesserula, Blceh. Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind. iii. p. 305. 



Carapace foiir-ridgod, without spines, forming a broad continuous 

 bridge across the back of the taO. Ridges rather blunt. Back 

 .'^lightly convex, without raised ridge in the median line. Interor- 

 bital space concave. Snout with a hump immediately above the 

 mouth, in very old examples. Body with bhiish black-edged occlU, 

 not more than one on a scute ; but frequently the ocelli are absent 

 on the abdomen or head, or on a portion of the sides or back. Head, 

 sides, and abdomen frequontlj- with black dots. Tail immaculate, 

 or with black, never A\'ith white, dots. You.n(j with .scattered large 

 black dots. 



Indian Ocean and archipelago ; Australia. 



Var. a. Abdominal scutes with whitish ocelli, with or M'ithout 

 black dots. 



a. Adult (15 inches long). Red Sea. Purchased of Mr. Jesse. 

 b-c. Adult and half-grown. Zanzibar. 

 ,1-f. Half-grown and young : .skins. Zanzibar. From Licut.-Col. 



Playfair's Collection. 

 (/-/(,. Adult. Seychelles. From Prof. E. P. Wright's Collection. 

 i, /.-)/(. Half-grown and young. Mauritius. From the Collection 



of the Zoological Society. 

 n. Half-grown : skin. From Sir A. Smith's Collection. 



Var. ft. Abdomen without whitish ocelli, immaculate or with 

 black dots. 



