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4027. Alutera monoceros ^- Linntcus. Lija barbuda; Loidu. 



Pacific Ocean; East Indies; Japan; Hawaii. 



Capriscus minima etc., Klein, ^liasus, II, 1742, 25 (no locality; figure 



very bad). 

 Batistes monoceros Osbeck, Iter Chinensis, 1757, 110, Asia; Linnaeus, 



Svst. Nat., ed. X, 175S, 327, Asia and America. 

 Lija barbuda Parra, Dif. Piezas Hist. Nat., 1787, 48, pi. 22, fig. 2, 



Habana. 

 Balistes kleinii Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1788, 1472, Indian seas; after 



Klein. 

 Balistes barbatus Walbauni, Artedi Pise, III, 1792, 464; after Klein. 

 Balistes monoceros unicolor Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 



463, after Gmelin. 

 Aluteres berardi Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zool., 1830, 108, pi. 7, New 



Guinea. 

 Alutera cinerea Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japon., Poiss., 1850, 



292, pi. 131, fig. 1, Japan. 

 Alutarius macracayithus Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen., Balistini, XXIV, 



Art. 11, 1852, 22, pi. 3, fig. 7, East Indies. 

 Alutarius ayn-phacanthoides Bl'^eker, loc. cit., 23, pi. 2, fig. 5, East Indies. 

 Alutarius oblitcratus Cantor, Malayan Fishes, 1850, 352, Pinang. 

 Balistes linguatula Gronow, Cat., ed. Gray, 1854, 35, Indian seas. 

 Aluterus anginosus Hollard, Ann. Sci. Nat., IV, 1855, 11, East Indies. 

 Balistes unicornu Basilewsky, Nouv. Mem. Soc. Nat. Moscow, X, 



1855, 263, China. 



4028. Alutera guntheriana Poey. Ldza barbuda. 



West Indies; once taken at Woods Hole (1898). 



Alutera guntheriana Poey, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XV, 1863, 

 184, Habana. 



Suborder OSTRACODERMI 



Family 298. OSTRACIIDiiE. Trunkfishes 



Genus 1441. OSTRACION Linnaeus. 



Ostracion Linnanis, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 1758, 330 (0. cubicus Linnaeus). 

 Cibotion Kaup, Wiegmann's Archiv, XXI, 1855, 215 {Ostracion cubicus 



Linnaeus) . 

 Ostracium of authors; improved orthography. 



4029. Ostracion punctatum Bloch and Schneider. 



Tropical Pacific in general; Clipperton Island, Galapagos Islands, 



Hawaiian Islands. 

 Ostracion lentiginosum Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 501, 



lie de France. 

 Ostracion punctatus Bloch and Schneider, loc. cit., 501, Honolulu. 



4030. Ostracion clippertonense Snodgrass and Heller. 



Clipperton Island. 



Ostracion clippertonense Snodgrass and Heller, Shore Fishes, Galapagos 

 Islands, in Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., VI, 1904, 4J0, Clipperton Island. 



Genus 1442. RHINESOMUS Swainson. 



Rhinesomus Swainson, Nat. Hist. Classn. Fishes, II, 1839, 194, 324 

 (Ostracion triqueter Linna;us). 



4031. Rhinesomus triqueter (Linnaeus). Trunkfish; Rock shellfish; Drunken- 



fish; Chapin; Platefish. 

 West Indies, north to the Bermudas; Key West and Pensacola; Woods 



Hole, Mass. 

 Ostracion triqueter Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ed. X, 1758, 330, "India." 

 Ostracion concatenatvs Bloch, Naturgesch. Ausl. Fische, I, 1785, 101, 



Martinique. 



Genus 1443. CHAPINUS Jordan and Evermann. 

 Chapinus Jordan and Evermann, Check List, 1895, 424 (Ostracion 

 bicaudalis Linnaeus). 



•» Whether the West Indian Alutera guntheriana is distinguishable from Alutera monoceros of the Pacific 

 is uncertain. 



