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2158. Monacanthus oppositus Poey. 



Cuba. 



Monacanthus oppositus Poey, Memorias, ir, 331, 1861, Havana. 



Genus 673. PSEUDOMONACANTHUS Bleeker. 



Pseudomonacanthus Bleeker, Xedt^rl. Tyd. Dierkuude, iii, 1866, 11 {mavrurus). 



2159. Pseudomonacanthus amphioxys (Cope). 



St. Martins Island, West Indies. 



Monacanthus amphioxys Cope. Trans. Amer. Pbilos. Soc. 1871, 477. St. Martins. 



Genus 674. ALUTEKA Cuvier. 

 Les alutires Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. 1, 11, 153, 1817 (monoceros). 



Snbgenns CERATACAXTHDS Gill. 



Ceratacanthus Gill, Cat. Fishes East Coast V. S., 57, 1861 {anranliacus). 



2160. Alutera schoepfii (Walbaum). File-fish; Lija; Fool- fish. 



Cape Cod to the Carolinas and Florida. 



Batistes schoepfii "Walbaum, Artedi Piscium, 461, 1792, Long Island ; after 

 Schopf, Berlin. Ges. Naturf., viii, 186, 1788. 



2161. Alutera punctata Agassiz. Long Mingo. 



Jamaica to Bahia. 



Alutera punctata Agassiz, Pise. Brasil., 437, pi. 72, 1829, Brazil. 



Subgenus OSflECKlA Jordan & Everniaun. 



Osbeckia Jordan & Evermann, new subgenus (scripta). 



2162. Alutera scripta (Osbeck). Unicorn-fish: Lija Trompa. 



Tropical seas; West Indies; North Cnrolina; off west coast of Mexico; 



Clarion Island, Revillagigedo Islands. 

 Balistes scriptus Osbeck, Iter Chinensis, l, 144, 1757, China. 



Subgenus ALDTERA Cuvier. 



2163. Alutera monoceros (Osbeck). Lija Barhuda. 



West Indies; East Indies; Japan. 



Balistes monoceros Osbeck, Iter Chinensis, 110, 17.57, Asia. 



Suborder OSTRACODERMI. The Trunk-Fishes. 



Family CLXXIII. OSTRACIIDiE. 



Genus 675. LACTOPHRYS Swainson. Three-angled Trunk-fishes, 



Lactoj)hrysSvfa.iiiiiOU, Nat. Hist. Classn. Fishes, ii,194, 324, 1839 (/nV/owMs, etc.). 



Subgenus RHLNESOMIS Swalnson. 

 Bhinesomus Swainson, Nat. Hist. Classn. Fishes, ii, 194, 324, 1839 {triqueter). 



2164. Lactophrys triqueter (Linnfeus). Trunk-fish: Rock Shellfish; Drunken-fish; 



Chapin ; Plate-fish. 

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

 Ostracion triqueter Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 330, 1758, India. 



Subgenus CHAPINDS Jordan & Evermann. 



Chapinus Jordan & Evermann, new subgenus (bicaudalis). 



2165. Lactophrys bicaudalis (Linnaeus). Chapin; Spotted Trunk-fish. 



West Indies, from Cuba to Ascension Island. 



Ostracion bicaudalis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 330, 1758, India; after .Vrtedi. 



Subgenus LACTOPHRYS Swainson. 



2166. Lactophrys trigonus (Linnaeus). Common Trunk-fish; Chapin: Shell-fish. 



West Indies, north to Bermuda and Key West; occasionally northward in, 



Gulf Stream to Holmes Hole, Massachusetts, and Chesapeake Bay.. 

 Ontracion trigonus Linuiuus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 330, 1758, India. 



