182 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Family BALISTIDZ. 
Balistes carolinensis Gmelin. 
Trigger Fish. 
Mr. Hand reports that a fish, probably this species, has been 
seen in the pounds at Cape May Point. 
Family MONACANTHID. 
Alutera schoepfii (Walbaum). 
Orange File Fish. 
Noted at Sea Isle City on July 5th, 1906, by Mr. W. J. Fox. 
Family TETRODONTIDE. 
Spheroides maculatus (Schneider). 
Puffer, 
One was secured at Sea Isle City on July 1st, 1906, by Mr. W. 
J. Fox. Again noted on July 15th. 
This fish occurs all along the shore of Delaware Bay from Cape 
May Point to Green Creek. Abundant all along the bay shore at 
Green Creek on June oth, 1907. ‘The largest examples were 
about 10 inches long. One found on June 23d. Called “toad 
fish.” 
Spheroides testudineus (Linnzus). 
PLATE 68. 
Southern Puffer. 
Distinguished from the last by the very broad, flattened inter- 
orbital space, its width more than one-half the snout. 
This species is included upon the authority of Dr. W. C. Ken- 
dall. He writes that there is an example in the U. S. Nat. Mus. 
about a foot in length, collected by S. F. Baird at Beesley’s Point. 
