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orbital margin and on tbe shoulder. A broad groove between the ros- 

 tral ridges, which are separated along their entire length. Snout lighter 

 colored than the rest of the body. 



Length, 50 inches. 



Locality : St. Bartholom6 Bay, Lower California. 



We have examined Girard's type in the National Museum, and have 

 determined it to be identical with leucorhynchus of Giinther. The 

 "blackish band along the middle of the back, with diffused blotches up- 

 on the sides and a double baud of the same color along the middle of 

 the snout" are not discernible. The coloration is uniform, except the 

 light-colored snout. 



II. — Fishes of the Hawaiian Group. 

 TETRODONTID^. 



TETRODON IMPLUTUS, Jemjns [No. 17997]. 



Tetrodon implutus, Jenyns, Voy. Beagle, Fish., 1842, 152. 



Teiraodon laterna, Richardson, Voy. Sulpliur, Zool., 1844, 124, pi. 61, f. 2 ; Eep. Ichth. 

 Chin., Rep. 15tli Meet. Brit. Assoc, 1846, 199.— Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen., xxiv, 

 1852, Blootk. vissch., 23 ; Nat. Tyds. Ned. lud., iii, 1852, Bydrage Ichth. Mo- 

 luksch. eil., 299.— Gunthek, Fish. Zanz,, 1866, p. 131. 



Arothron laterna, Bleeker, Enum. Pise. Arch. Ind., 1859, 200. 



Crayracion implutus, BhiEEKKR, Atl. Ichth., 1865, Gymnod, p. 71. 



Crayradon laterna, Bleeker, Atl. Ichth., 1865, pi. 205, Gymnod., pi. 1, f. 3. 



Tetrodon hisjndus, Gunther, Cat. Fish., viii, 1870, 297 (in part — var. (3, 298). 



Locality : Honolulu Harbor, Oahu. 



Specimens small, under surface of the body densely covered with 

 short spines ; the longitudinal lines on the abdomen distinct, and the 

 round, bluish-white spots on the dorsal region are few in number. Speci- 

 mens of this fish from the Fanning group show some slight differences, 

 which will be pointed out in the account of the collection from that 

 locality. 



BALISTID^. 



BALISTES BUNIVA, (Lacep.) Gthr. [No. 18001]. 

 Balistes ringens, Osbeck, Voy. Chin., ii, 1771, 93. — Block., Ausl. Fisch., 1785, pi. 152, 

 f. 2.— Bloch., Syst. Ichth., ed. Schn., 1801, 472.— Lac^p., Hist, des Poiss., i, 

 1798, 370, pi. 18, f. 1.— Richardson, Voy. Samar., Fish., 1848, 21, pi. 16, f. 

 1-4; Rep. Ichth. Chin., Rep. 15th Meet. Brit. Assoc. 1846, 201.— Hollard, 

 Ann. Sc. Nat., 4th series, 1854, Zool. i, 317. — Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Ind. 

 N6erl., viii, 1860 ; Sumatra, viii, 69 (nee Linn.). 



