422 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP FISH AND FISHERIES. 

 Suborder SCLERODERMI. 

 Family CLXX. TRIACANTHIDiE. 



Genus 665. HOLLARDIA Poey. 



Hollardia Poey, Memorias, ii, 348, 1861 (hollardi). 



2137. Hollardia hollardi Poey. 



HoUardia hollardi Poey, Memorias, ii, 318, pi. 18, fig. 11, 1861, Cuba. 



Family CLXXI. BALISTIDiE. The Trigger-Fishes. 

 Genus 666. BALISTES (Artedi) Linnseus. 



BaUstes (Artedi) Linn;eus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 327, 1758 {i-etula). 

 Subgenus CAPRISCCS Raflnesque. 



Capriscits Rafinesque, Indice, 41, 1810 {capriscus). 



2138. Balistes polylepis Steindachner. 



Lower California to Panama. 



Balistes pohjh'ins Steindachner, Ichth. Beitr., v, 21, 1876, Magdalena Bay; 

 Mazatlan ; Acapulco. 



2139. Balistes iiaufragium Jordan & Starks. Fez Puerco de las Piedras. 



Mazatlan. 



Balistes 7taufi-af/ium Jordan & Starks, Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. 189.5, 488, Mazatlan. 



2140. Balistes carolinensis Gmeliu. Leather Jacket; "Turbot"; Ciicuyo. 



Tropical parts of the Atlantic; Gulf Stream; Mediterranean. 

 Balistes carolinensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1468, 1788, Carolina. 



2141. Balistes forcipatus Gmelin. 



West coast of Africa and the neighboring islands. 



Balistes forcipatus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1472, 1788, Brazil; after Guaperva 

 lata of Lister. 



2142. Balistes powellii Cope. 



Newport, Rhode Island; West Indies; in the Gnlf Stream. 



Balistes powellii Cope, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1870, 120, Newport, R. I. 



Subgenus BALISTES (Artedi) Linnaeus. 



2143. Balistes vetula Linnreus. Bessy Cerlca. 



Tropical parts of the Atlantic; West Indies; Gnlf Stream to Woods Hole. 

 Balistes retnla Linuauis, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 329, 1758, Ascension Island; after 

 Balistes retula of Osbeck, Iter Chinensis, 294, 1757. 



Genus 667. PACHYNATHUS Swainson. 



Pachynathus Swainson, Classn. Fishes, ir, 326, 1839 ( triangularis ^ eapistra- 

 ti(s); not Paehyf/natha nor Paehygnathus; both these names earlier used. 

 for genera of spiders. 



2144. Pachynathus capistratus (Shaw). Pez Puerco. 



Pacific Ocean; East Indies; China; Pacific Coast of tropical America, from 



Magdalena Bay to the (^alapago.'?. 

 Balistes capistratus '^h.a.w, Genl. ZooL, v, 417, 1804, after Lac6p&:de. 



Genus 668. CANTHIDERMIS Swainson. Sohacos. 



Canthidermis Swainson, Nat. Hist. Classn. Anim., ii, 325, 1839 {angulosus=^ 

 maculatus). 



2145. Canthidermis sobaco (Poey). Sobaco. 



West Indies. 



Balistes sobaco Poey, Memorias, ii, 324, 1861, Havana. 



2146. Canthidermis asperrimus (Cope). 



St. Martins, West Indies. 



Balistes asperrimus Voitu, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1871, 478, supposed to be 

 from St. Martins. 



