3< »-l OYMXOBONTTIS. 



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

 blue, the upper band being continued on tho body ; spines on the 

 abdomen only. 

 West Indies. 



a. Adult. St. Croix. Purchased of Mr. 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 tho root of the 

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

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

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

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

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

 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 raj's. 

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

 snout straight. D. 10. 



Habitat ? 



a. Three and a half inches long. 



5r>. Tetrodon sancts heienae. 



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 smallca- than the pupil, lilue darker- 

 edged lines radiate from the eye. Caudal Jin with six or aeven 

 slighthj undulated bluish darJc-edijed vertical bands, about as broad 

 as the interspaces between iliem. Throat and abdomen Avithout 

 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, rreseiited by J. C. McUiss, 

 Esq. 



c. Adult. Japnu? 



d. Adult. 



57. Tetrodon striolatus. 



Vaknt!/n, p. 422, fig. 249 ; llenard, i tab 25. fig 138. 



Tetraodon striolatus, Qw»/ .N" ('<itm. Vo,j. Uran. Zool. p. 2U.J. 



compressus, Proce, Bid/. .Soc. Phdovi. IH22, p. U'iO. 



Tropidichthys striolatus, lil<;ek. Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ltd. vi. p. o03. 



Psilonotus striolatus, BUck. Atl. Ichih. Gijmnod. tab. 0. fig. 0. 



Canthogastcr strit)latus, Blcek. I. c. p. 82. 

 A 1.-.rsc black ocellus edged with blue, on the back, on each side of 

 the dorsal fin. Body finehj striolated with undulated, chief// lonrji- 

 tudinal, Ji</ht,r and darlrr lines ; the lower bnlf of the sid-^ of the 



