FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. I'M 



262. Cantliigaster bennetti i Bleeker). 



Pour specimens from Bacon (no 3749; length 1.25 to 1.75 in.). 



Tropidichlhys bennetti Bleeker, Nat. MM-. Ned. [nd vi,504, Amboyna. 



don I" nnelii, GUntber, Cat., > in. 301. 

 CtttUhogattcT ocellaltu Bleeker, Itlas, v,80. 

 Psilono i .... : Mi:-., pi, l i \1\ , I, 



263. Canthigaster compressus I Pra 

 Two specimens from Philippines (no local label, no. 1018; length 2.2 and 2.7") in.). 



Bull. Sue. Philom. 1822, 130, Manila. 

 retrod* r, Cat., 1 in, 304. 



■ ■ i - ■ Bleekei Itlas, v. sj. 



locus striolatu i pi. i cxm, fig. i 



264. Spheroides lunaris ( Bl.xh ^ Schneider). Botete. 



One specimen from San Fabian (no. 1033; length 3.25 in.). 



■ it: a Schni 1801, Malabar; Gttnther, Cat., ilippines and i 



i 3eali froe. 1 S. Nat. Mus., xxvin, 1905, 7 Negro 



265. Tetraodon nigropunctatus Blueh ^ S.hneidei. I)., I, 



One specimen from Bacon (no. W62; lengl li 8.5 in.). This example is uniform black, the spicules silven 

 white, -hoii and developed only on belly, hark, and sides; the caudal, cheeks, snout, chin, and a spol on the 

 middle "I' back naked; Ens black exc >p1 pi ctorals which have a slight wash of yellowish. 



i . . aeidl r, Syst. 1 eh lh.. 507, 1801, Tranquebar. 



' rtintber Cat., vm, " 



CCVI, fig. 4. 



Family 0STRACIID.fi. 

 266. Ostracion tuberculatum Linnaeus. 

 One specimen from Jolo (no. 3764; length 1 n.). 



i i Nat., > '1 \. 331, 1758, India. 



Ostraci Linnteus, Syst. Nat., ed. X, 332, 1758, India; Giintber, Cat.,vm, 200 (Red Sea; Zanzibar; - Uauri- 



la; Ceram; South lust ralia i. 



267. Ostracion gibbosum Linnaeus. 



One specimen from Jolo (no. 3853; length 2.1 in.). 



Nat., i 1 x, 332, 1758, India: Giinther, Cat., vm, 258. 

 OtUra pi. i i \\\i. fig. 4. 



Bleeker, Atlas v, 31, pi. ccm, Bg. 3. 



Family Si'nUI'.KMD.fi. 



HYP0MACRUS Evermann & Seale, new genus. 



Hypomacrw Evermann A; Seale, new genus oi Scorpsenjdse Hypomacrv* alba 



This genus i-. relate,! to Sebasiopsis Gill, from which it differs in having the tenth to thirteenth pectoral 

 much produced. The upper 9 rays are subequal, their length half thai of head; length of tenth ray 1.2 

 ad, the eleventh tu thirteenth successively shorter, the last 3 usuallj shorter than the upper !i ami no( 

 detached, (for a, under; uaKpos, long; referring to the j luced lower pectoral rays 



