260 



SCLERODERMI. 



II. Carapace four ' or Jive-ridgcd, without spines. 



7. Ostracion cubicus. 



Ostracion prior, Aldrov. iv. c. ID, p. -OGO; Jonsto7i, p. 125, tab. 25. 



fig.?. 

 WillHffhtnf, Append, p. 20, tab. J. 10 and J. 12 ; Valent. p. 38G, iig. 120 ; 



Seha, iii. tab. 24. tig. 11. 

 Ostracion, sp., Artedi, Symm. p. 85, no. 8, and p. 84. no. 6 ; Genera, 



pp. 55, 5G. nos. 1 & 4; Gronoo. Mas. i. p. 64. no. 119; Zuophyl. 



p. 44. no. 173. 

 Osti'acion tetragonus, L. Mus. Ad. Fred. p. 59 ; Bleek. Atl. Ichth. 



Ostrac. p. 39, pi. 1. fig. 2, and pi. 3. tig. 2 ; Gunth. in Fish. Zanz. 



p. 129 ; Day, Fis/i. Malah. p. 254. 



tuberculatus, L. Syst. Nat. i. p. 409. 



cubicus, L. I. c. p. 410; Block, Ausl. Fisch. i. p. 115, taf. 137; 



Lacep. i. p. 4G1, pi. 22. fig. 1 ; llilpp. Atlas, 'i.tch. p. 3 ; Bleek. 



Verh. But. Gen. xxiv. Balist. p. 35, pi. 7. fig. 14; Lefehv. Voy. 



Poiss. p. 238, pi. 8 ; Hollard, Ann. Sc. Nat. 1857, \ii. p. 162. 

 Abu senduk, Forsk. Descr. An. p. 17. no. 48. 

 Ostracion deux-tubercules, Lacep. i. p. 459. 



bituberculatu.s, Bl. Schn. p. 501. 



cyanurus, Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 4, taf. 1. fig. 2 ; Hollard. Ann. Sc. 



Nat. 1857, vii. p. 167. 



ai'guS; Riipp. I. c. fig. 1 . 



? Ostracion maculatus, Quay 8f Gaim. Voy. TJran. Zool. p. 218. 

 Ostracion imniaculatus, Schley. Fazin. Japon. Poiss. p. 296 ; Bleek, 



Nal. Ichth. Ja]xin, p. 55 ; Brcvoort, Not. Jap. Fish. p. 284. 

 tesserula, Bleek. Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind. iii. p. 305, 



Carapace tour-ridged, "withuuL opines, forming a broad continuous 

 bridge across the back of the tnil, llidges rather blunt. Back 

 slightly convex, without raised ridge in the median line, Interor- 

 bital space concave. Snout with a hump immediately above the 

 i^outh, in very old examples. Body with bluish black-edged ocelli, 

 not more than one on a scute ; but frequently the ocelli are absent 

 on the abdomen or head, or on a portion of the sides or back. Head, 

 sides, and abdomen frequently with black dots. Tail immaculate, 

 or with black, never with white, dots. Yoiimj with scattered large 

 black dots. 



Indian Ocean and archipelago ; Australia, 



Var. a. Abdominal scutes with'* whitish ocelli, with or without 

 black dots. 



a. Adult (15 inches long). Red Sea. Purchasod of Mr, Jesse. 

 h-c. Adult and half-grown. Zanzibar, 

 d-f. Half-grown and young : skins, Zanzibar. From Lieut.-Col. 



Playfair's Collection. 

 (j-h. Adult. Seychelles. From Prof. E. P. Wright's Collection. 

 i, h-m. Half-grown and young. Mauritius. From the Collection 



of the Zoological Society. 

 n. Half-grown : skin. From Sir A. Smith's Collection. 



Var. /3. Abdomen without whitish ocelli, immaculate or with 

 black dots. 



