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328. 
329. 
330. 
331. 
INSTITUTE OF JAMAICA, PROVISIONAL LIST OF THE FISHES OF JAMAICA. 
O. cornutus. Recorded by Hill, but it appears to be 
wrongly identified. 
O cornutus, L., is a species of the Indian Ocean, in 
which the carapace and tail have round bluish and 
blackish spots, and the interorbital space is deeply 
concave. 
Family GYMNODONTES. 
Jaws modified into a beak. 
cxLix. genus TeTRopon, (L.) Giinth. 
Tetrodon testudineus, L. Porpoise (so-called). 7. 
ammocryptus of Gosse. Brownish-black above, with 
whitish lines : sides yellowish with brown spots : 
abdomen and fins immaculate. 
T. psittacus, Bl. Schn. Brownish, with six dark 
brown bands across the back. Very doubtfully 
Jamaican. 
cL. genus Diopon, L. 
Diodon litwrosus, Shaw. Sour-sop Fish. Our form 
has the spines long: and twe bands, and three 
spots, which generally have a light edge, also 
scattered round small black spots. It is the D. 
maculatus of Giinther. ~ 
D. hystriz, L. D atinga of Hill’s list. All the up- 
per and lateral parts of the fins with numerous 
small round black or brown spots, 
cLI. genus Cuitomycrerus, Bibron. 
Chilomycterus antennatus, (Cuv.) Kaup. Upperand 
lateral parts with numerous black dots, some 
with a bluish pupil. Abdomen brown: fins un- 
spotted. The Diodon orbicularis of Hill’s list is 
probably this. It can hardly be D. orbicularis, 
Bl., as that is equivalent to Chilomycterus orbicu- 
laris, (Bl.) Giinth., a specis of the Indian Ocean 
and Archipelago. 
cLI. genus OrrHacoriscus, (BL, Schn.) Nardo. 
(Sun-Fishes.) 
An unidentified species of this genus is recorded by 
Hill. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
The following works containing references to the 
fishes of Jamaica may be consulted in the Library 
of the Institute :— 
1725. Sir Hans Sloane. A voyage to the Islands Madera, 
Barbadoes, Nieves, St. Christophers. and Jamaica, 
Vol. II. Of the Fishes of Jamaica, pp. 276-288. 
1774. S. Long. The History of Jamaica. Vol. III. pp. 
866-867. 
1789. Patrick Browne. The Civil and Natural History of 
Jamaica. Of Hishes, pp. 440-459. 
1806. William Turton. A General System of Nature. Vol. 
I. Fishes, pp. 703-932. [This is based on 
Linné’s Systema Natwre, translated and with many 
additions. The title-page in our first Vol. is 
wanting, but the other volumes are dated 1806. 
The dedication of Vol. I,, however, is dated 1800. } 
1828-1849. G. Cuvier and A. Valenciennes. Histoire Na- 
turelle des Poissons. Vols. I-X XII, 
P. H. Gosse, assisted by R. Hill. A Naturalist’s So- 
journ in Jamaica. 
1856. &.H. Fishes of the Jamaica Shores and Rivers. 
Trans. Jamaica Society of Arts. Vol.I. Octo- 
ber 1855, pp. 142-145. Sy 
1851. 
1860-1868. A. Giinther. Catalogue of the Fishes in the 
British Museum. Vols. [I-VIIT. 
1867-1868. R. H. Fishes. Trans. Incorporated Royal 
Society of Arts and Agriculture. Vol. 1.,pp. 24- 
26, 47-48, and 62-63. 
1881. Richard Hill. The Fishes of Jamaica. Handbook 
of Jamaica for 1881, pp. 121-126. [A reprint of 
the 1855 paper.] } 
1881. Anthony Musgrave, Jr. Fishes and Fishing. Hand- 
book of Jamaica for 1881, pp. 127-1387. 
T. H. Bean and H. G. Dresel, A Catalogue of Fishes 
received from the Public Museum of the Institute 
of Jamaica, with descriptions of . = ~ two 
new species. Proe. U. S. Nat. Museum, pp.151- 
170. 
1864-1889. The Zoological Record, Vols. I-X XVI. 
1884. 
