]ll() BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



longest dorsal ray 1.75; longest anal ray 1.5; length of pectoral 2. Teeth very strong, the front ones eonic; 

 dermal plates strong and rough, 29 from gill-opening to base of caudal: preocular groove distinct. 



Batistes ftavimarginatus Riippell, Atlas, Fische, ;::i. lsjs. Red Sea; Gunther, Cat., vm, .'23 (Red Sea; Amboyna). 

 Batistes (Pseudobalistcs) ftavimarginaius, Bleeker, Atlas, v, 113, pi. ccxxiv, fig. 3. 



256. Balistapus undulatus (Mango Park). 



Nine specimens from Bacon (no. 3374. 3375, 3438, 34*1. 3604, 4058 to 1060, and 4123: length 4.75 to6.5 



in 



es undulatus Mungo Park. Trans. Linn. Soc. I. "ml., in, 1797, 37, Sumatra; Giinther, Cat., vm, 220, (Red Sea; Zanzibar: 

 Moluccas; Sumatra; Amboyna; Ceram; Zebu, Philippines; China: Japan 

 Batistes {Balistapus linealus Bleeker, Atlas, v. lis. pi. ccxxix, fig. 2. 



257. Balistapus aculeatus (Linnaeus). Pugut. 



Nine specimens from Bacon (no. 3307, 3308, 3388, 3389, 3433 to 3435. Ills and 4119; length 3.5 to 6.5 in.), 

 and 2 from Zamboanga (no. 3364 and 3373 



! oi uleatus l.mmens. Syst. Nat., ed. x, 32.S, India; Gunther. Cat., vm. 223 I He de France; island oi Johanna; Zanzi- 

 bar; Moluccas; Amboyna; ChinaSeas; Fiji; Micronesia; Seychelles; Mauritius). 

 Balistapus aculeatus, Jordan A: Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xxm. 1903 (1905', 414, pi. lxii. 



Family M0NACAXTH1D.-E. 

 258. Monacanthus chinensis (Bloch). 



Three specimens from Bulan (no. 3259, 3260, and 4140; length 5 to 0.5 in.). 



! chinensis Bloch, Icat.l., V. 24. pi. CLII, fig. 1, 1797. Brazil and Caina. 

 Monacanthus chinensis, Gunther, Cat., vm, 236 iS'nrth China: Pinang; Singapore; Shanghai); Bleeker, Atlas, v. u: 

 • > XXII, lie _' 



259. Monacanthus maerurus Bkvk r. Bunjaong 



One line specimen from Jolo (no. 3693: length 7.5 in.), and one from Bacon (no. 3070; length 5.55 in.). 

 These specimens show traces of dark bands at base of anal. 



l/o . anthus mat rurui Bleeker, Nat. Tods. Ned. [nd., XII, 22a, lsr>7. Nias: Gunther, Cat., vm, 247, ism 

 Pseudomonacantkus foacrurus Bleeker, Atlas, v, 134, pi ccxxvin, lie 2. 



260. Osbeckia scripta (Osbeck i Samarang 



Tine, specimens from Jolo (no. 3313 to 3315: length 4.5 to S.2 in.). Color in spirit-, yellowish with 

 brown -pot- and reticulations; caudal 2.5 in length. 



These specimei - differ from typi al i xamples of <>. scripta in having the dorsal spine very short, ii- length 

 being less than diameter of eve. They may represent an undescribed species, the describing of which we 

 defer until additional material can he examined. 



■ scriptus Osbeck, Reise nack Ostindien und China, 1, 144, 1765, China Seas. 

 \es manoceros scriptus, Gmelm, Syst, Nat., 1463, i7ss; alter Osbeck. 

 u macanthus scriptus, Gunther, Cat., vm, 252. 



isct pta, Jordan & Evermann, Hull. I". S. Fish Comm., xxm. 1903 I 1905 . 1-'-'. lie Isj i Honolulu). 



Family TETRA<)I>0\TII).£. 

 261. Lag-ocephalus hypselogeneion (Bleekei I 



Three specimens from Bulan i no. 4023 to 4025; length 3.5 to 3.75 in. I. 



Tie se exampli - Inn e the fold of skin on lower posterior portion of side and tail well developed: caudal 

 lunate and handed with numerous fin vertical lin -: cheek with 5 subvertical bars of brown; upper half of 

 body with numerous whitish spots. Th 's • -.• in to resemble Day's figure in every respect. 



Tetraodon I Bleekc r, Nat. rijds. Ned. led., in, 300, 1852, Amboyna, Wahai. 



■ I . vm. 277: Day, Fishes India, 702, pi. clxxxiu, fig. 5. 



