304 onoronoNraa. 



vertical bands on the tail, the upper and lower margins of the caudal 

 blue, the upper baud being continued on the body ; spines on the 

 abdomen only. 

 West Indies. 

 a. Adult. St. Croix. Purchased of IMr. Stevens. 



55. Tetrodon caudofasciatus. 



No black spot on the back. A narrow brownish band runs from 

 the root of the upper caudal ray to above the pectoral, where it is 

 accompanied by a white line, which turns round the root of the 

 pectoral, and runs backwards for some distance, parallel to the brown 

 band. The back above the band and tlie side of the head are spotted 

 with brown, the spots being small. Upper side of the head with 

 white ocelli and brown spots. A few short subhorizontal lines pass 

 through the eye. Lower parts immaculate. A black spot on the 

 base of the dorsal rays. Caudal fin with about six narrow curved 

 brown bands, the convexity being directed backwards. A vertical 

 cuneiform brown spot across the root of the lower caudal rays. 

 Smooth ; only a few spines on the abdomen. Upper profile of the 

 snout straight. D. 10. 



Habitat ? 



a. Three and a half inches long. 



56. Tetrodon sanctse helense. 



No black dorsal spot. Head and body with numerous, but rather 

 distant, more or less rounded bluish, darker-edged spots, the largest 

 being larger, and the smallest smaller than the pupil. Blue darker- 

 edged lines radiate from the eye. Caudal fin ivith siv or seven 

 slighth/ undulated bluish darlc-edged vertical hands, about as broad 

 «s' ihe'^ intcrsjxu'es between them. Tlu'oat and abdomen without 

 median line. Abdomen with distinct spines, but the head and 

 remainder of the body are spineless. Upper profile of the snout 

 straight. D. 10. 



St. Helena. (Japan?) 

 a-b. Adult, 5 inches long. St. Helena. Presented by J. C. Melliss, 

 Esq. 



c. Adult. Japan? 



d. Adult. 



57. Tetrodon striolatus. 



Valenti/n, p. 422, fig. 249 ; Rmard, i. tab. 25. fig. 138. 



Tetraodon striolatus, Qimj &,- Gaim. Voy. Uran. Zool. p. 203. 



compressus, Proce, Bidl. Soc. Phihm. 1822, p. 130. 



Tropidichthys striolatus, Bleek. Nat. Ti/ds. Ned. Ind. vi. p. 503. 



Psilouotus striolatus, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. Gymnod. tab. 9. fig. 6. 



Cauthogaster striolatus, Bleek. I. c. p. 82. 

 A large black ocellus edged with blue, on the back, on each side of 

 the dorsal fin. Body fi^nely striolated with unduleited, chiefly lotie/i- 

 tudinal, liyhter ami darl-er lines ; the lower half of the side of the 



