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TETRAODONTID^. 



6. Spheroides sp'? 

 No. 23,773. 



The skin is perfectly smooth above, and the inflated abdomen is 

 beset with rather large and sparsely distributed prickles. The eye 

 is contained about twice in the somewhat flat interorbital space. 

 The origin of the D. in advance of the A. Above blackish, 

 below lighter, and the caudal with a median black blotch. Sides 

 of the body with a number of blackish spots about the size of the 

 eye. 



This example is in very bad condition. 



OANTHIGASTERID^. 



7. Canthigaster margaritatus (RUppel). 



Tetraodon margaritatus Riippel, Atlas zu der Reise ira Xiirdl. Afrika, 

 1826, p. 66. 



Nos. 23,774 and 2-3, 77-5. 



SCORP^NID^. 



8. Pterois radiata Cu\ier and Valenciennes. 



Pterois radiata Cavier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., IV, 1829, 

 p. 271. 



Nos. 23,776 and 23,777. 



BLENNID^. 



9. Salarias periophthalmus Cuvier and Valenciennes. 



Salarias periophthalmus Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 

 XI, 1836, p. 230, PI. 328. 



No. 23,778. 



