3. TETRODOX. 271 



1. Xenopterus naritus. 



Tctraodon naritufi, HicJiards. Voy. Samur. Fish. p. 18, pi. 8 ; Cant. 



Mai. FUh. p. ,",8.!, pi. 10 ; Bleck. Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiv. lilootk. p. 21, 



or Nat. Ti/dschr. Ned. Ind. iii. p. 439. 

 Tetrodon graudispiua, Van dcr Ilueven, Handb. Dlerk. 2nd edit. ii. 



p. 275. 

 Chonerliinus naritus, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. Gymnod. p. 77, pi. 7. fig. 2. 



D. 32-38. A. 28-32. The abdominal spines ascend to above the 

 level of the pectoral, in front and behind this fin. Eye uot larger 

 than the nostril (in adult examples). 



Vert. 12/17. This species has very frequently osseous tumors on 

 the first interhocmal and on the last haimal and neural spines. These 

 enlargements are constantly observed in certain Acanthopterygians. 



Eivers of Sumatra and Borneo ; Sea of Pinang. 



a. Type of the species. Sarawak. Presented by Sir J. Richai'dson. 

 h. Eleven inches long. Borneo. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection. 

 C'd. Half-gro-wTi : skins. Pinang. From Dr. Cantor's Collection. 

 e. Adult: skeleton, 



2. Xenopterus modestus. 



Tetraodon modestus, Bleek. Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind. i. p. IG, and iii. 



p. 440, or Verh. Bat. Gen. xxiv. Blootk. pp. 19, 21. 

 Chonerliinus modestus, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. Gymnud. p. 78, pi. 9. fig. 8, 



D. 25-26. A. 23-25. The abdominal spines do not extend up- 

 I'wards beyond the root of the pectoral. Eye larger than nostxil. 

 Rivers of Sumatra and Borneo. 



a. Four inches long. Borneo. Purchased of Hr. Frank. 

 h. One of the typical specimens. Borneo. From Dr. Bleeker's Col- 

 lection. 



3. TETEODON*. 



Tetraodon, sp., Linne. 



Gastrophysus (Phvsogaster) , Chelonodon, CheiUchtliys et Arothron, 



Miiller, Abhandl Bed. Ak. 1839, p. 252, and Wteym. Arch. 1843, 



p. 330. 

 Holacantlius, Gronor. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 23. 

 Prilonotus vel Anchisoiiius, Kai/p, in Voy. Herald, Fis?t. 1854. 

 Tropidiehthys, Bleeker, 1854. 

 Anosmius, Peters, Wieym. Arch. 1855, p. 274. 

 Promecocephale, Dilobomyctere, Tetrodon, Amblyrhyncliotc, Ge- 



neion, Catopliorhynque,l}atracliop8, Monotrete, Rhynchote, Bibron, 



Bev. et May. Zoul. 1855, p. 279 et seqq. 



* 1. Tetraodon brunneus, Brevoort, Ex]ped. Ja^an, Fish, p. 284. — Japan. — 

 Founded on a rude drawing. 



2. lineolatus, I'ocy, Hepert. Fis.-nat. Cuba, 1808, p. 432.— Cuba. 



3. granimatocephalus, Schley. Faun. Japon. Poiss. p. 28G, pi. 120. 



fig. 3. — Japan. 



4. Crayracion cocbinchinensis, Steinduchner, Verh. zool.-bof. Ges. Wien, 



1860, p. 481), taf. 5. fig. 1. — Cochinchina. 

 .'). Tctraodon blocbii, Casfelnau, Poisn. d'Afr. Ai's'r. p. 7."). — Ka'.k B.iv, 

 South Africa. 



