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III. — Fishes of the Fanning Group. 

 TETEODONTID^. 



TETRODON IMPLUTUS, Jenyns* [No. 19214]. 



Locality : Palmyra and Christmas Islands. 



Specimens large, and sparsely spinous. Round bluish-white spots on 

 the dorsal regions numerous, and the longitudinal lines on the under 

 surface indistinct. 



TETRODON NIGROPUNCTATUS, Bl. Schn. [No. 19215]. 



Tetrodon nigropunctatus, Bloch, Syst. Ichth,, ed. Schn., 1801, 507.— Gijnther, Cat. 



Fish., viii, 1870, 293. — Klunzinger, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges., xxi, 1871, Fische d. 



Eoth. Meer, 643. 

 Tetraodon diadematus, Euppell, Atl. Fiscli., 1828, 65, pi. 17, f. 3.— Gunther, Cat. Fish., 



viii, 1870, 293. 

 Tetrodon trichoderma, Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind., v, 1853, Sumatra, 532. 

 Tetrodon tricliodtrnmtoides, Blekker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. lud., vi, 1854, Flores, 336. 

 Arothron melanorhynchus, Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind., ix, 1855, 111. 

 Arothron trichoderma, Bleeker, Enum. Pise. Arch. lud., 1859, 201. 

 Arothron trichodermatoides, Bleeker, Euum. Pise. Arch. lud., 1859, 202. 

 Crai/racion nigropunctatus, Bleeker, Atl. Ichth., v, 1865, Gymnod., 74, pi. 2, f. 4. 



Locality : Fanning Group. 



This specimen belongs to what GUnther calls citrinella, a variety of 

 nigropunctatus. It is characterized by its lemon color, with small scat- 

 tered black spots on the sides, and large and small irregular black spots 

 on the back ; by its black dorsal fin, with a large black blotch around 

 its base J eyelids black, and black around the gill-openings. 



OSTRACIONTID^. 



OSTEACION TUBERCULATUS, Linn. [No. 19216]. 



Ostracion tetragonus, Linn., Mus. Ad. Fred., 1754, 59. — Bleeker, Atl. Ichth., v, 1865, 

 Ostrac, 39, pi. i, f. 2, pi. 3, f. 2.— GtJNTHER, Fish. Zauzi., 1866, 129. 



Ostracion tuberculatiis, Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 409. 



Ostracion cubicus, Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 410. — Bloch, Ichth., iv, 1787, 115, pi. 137. — 

 Laciep., Hist, des Poiss., i, 1798, 461, pi. 22, f. 1.— RtJPPELL, Atlas Fische, 1828, 

 3. — Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen., xxiv, 1852; BaUst.en Ostrac, 35, pi. 7, f. 14. — 

 HoLLARD, Ann. So. Nat., vii, 1857, 162.— GDntiier, Cat. Fish., viii, 1870, 2C0.— 

 Klunzinger, Verh. z.-b. Ges., xxi, 1871, 635. 



Ostracion hiiuberatlatus, Bloch, Syst. Ichth., ed. Schn., 1801, 501. 

 * See synoii. under Hawaiian Fishes. 



