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Seba, in Amsterdam, of Mr. Lillja, in Loudon, of Mr. (Don) Saltcros, in 

 Chelsey, and of seeing various specimens at Stratford, and "in spring- 

 garden." No other kinds of tislies appear to have been preserved 

 except ^^ the mo riTc- or Angel-fish Anglis, aliis Mermaidfish,^^ jyrobably a> 

 species of Squatiim, which he saw in London at the Naggshead and 

 in the town of Chelsey. The art of taxidermy was evidently not 

 thoroughly established in 1738. 



Of Ostracion Mcaiidalis, he remarks, "Vidi Loudini, in the White 

 Bear," and "Apud D"" Sebam vidi." Ostracion trigonus he saw " Apud 

 Sir Hans Sloane et in N'aggshead"; Ostracion triqueter and 0. quadri- 

 cornis, "Londini in the Kaggshead et apud Mr. LiUia." 



The specimens were all said to have come from India. 



OSTEACION TEIGONUS, Linn. 



Ostracion trigonus, LmN^us, Syst. Nat. ed. x, 1758, i, j). 330, No. 2: ed. xii,1766, i, p. 408. — 

 Bloch, Ichthyolo^ie, iv, 1787, p. 115, pi. cxxxv {coffre d. perles). — Gmelin, 

 Linn. Syst. Nat. 1788, i, p. 1441 (assigning erroneously 14 rays to first dorsal). — 

 LACfepfeDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., etc. i,1798, pp. 465-466; ed.ii, 1819, p. 842.— 

 Schneider, Bloch Syst. I^litli. 1801, p. 499 (erroneously described with orbital 

 spines).— Shaw, Gen. Zool. v, 1804, p. 422.— Cuvier, Efegne Anim. ed. 1, 

 1817, p. 154: ed. ii, 1829, p. 375, note.— Kaup, Arch, fur Naturg. 1855, p. 218 (a 

 quoted name: Kaup did not profess to have examples). — Hollard, Ann. Sci. 

 Nat. vii, 1856, p. 150.— Gunther, Cat. Fish Brit. Mus. viii, 1870, p. 256. 



Ostracion trigonum, Poey, Mem. sob. Hist. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1861, p. 362. 



Lactoi)hrys trigonus, Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fish, Eept. and Amphib. 1839, ii, p. 324, fig. 

 102.— Poey, Enum. Pise. Cubens. 1876, p. 174. 



Ostracion Yalei, Storer, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, i, 1837, p. 353, pi. viii. 



Lactophrya Yalei, Dekay, Zool. N. Y. Fishes, 1842, p. 302. — Storer, Mem. Am. Acad. Sci. 

 viii, 1861, p. 429, pi. xxxv, fig. 3 ; Hist. Fish Mass. 1867, p. 429, pi. xxv, fig. 3. 



Lactophrys oviceps, Kaup, 1. c. 



Ostracion (Lcetophrys) undulatus, Poey, Eep. Fis. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, p. 441 (a specifie 

 name founded solely on color). 



Lactophrys undulatus, Poey, Enum. Pise. Cubens. 1876, p. 176. 



Ostraciuvi expansum, Cope, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. 1870, p. 474, figs. 9, 10. 



Pisds triangularis clusii, cornibus carens. Lister, in App. Willughby, Hist. Piso. 1686, p. 

 156.— Eay, Syn. Method. Pise. 1713, p. 44. 



Ostracion triangulatus, limbis figurarum hexagonarum eminentibus, aculeis duohut in imo 

 ventre, Artedi, Gen. Pise. 1738, p. 56, No. 7. 



Ostracion triangulatus, limbis figuram hexagonam eminentibus, aculeis duobus in imo ventr^ 

 Artedi, Syn. Pise. 1738, p. 85, No. 11. 



Ostracion polyodon tetragonus, abdomine pone bicorni,'Lii^JEVS, Iter Scand. p. 160. 



Species dubia an Lcetophrys trigonus ? Poey, Eej). Fis. Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, p. 441. 



Chopin, Parra, Desc. Dif. Piez. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1787, p. 31, pi. xvii, fig. i, vide PoXT, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 183. 



L' Ostracion iriangulo-iubercuU, Bonnaterre, Encyc. Method. 1788, p. 21, pL xiii. 



Chapin, Cuba. Trunk-fish, Jamaica. 



distribution. 



Barbados (Schomburgk). 



St. Croix (Giinther). 



Jamaica (Giinther). 



Bermuda (Gopde). 



Cuba (Poey, National Museum). 



Holmes Hole, Mass. (Storer). 



Chesapeake Bay, October, 1877 (Lugger) 



St. Martins (Cope). 

 Tortugas (National Museum). 

 Bahia (Giinther). 

 Bahamas (National Mosemn). 



