Osbeckia. 63 
XXIX. Osbeckia scripta (Osbeck). (Monacanthide. ) 
Plate XV, fig. 52, 53 and 54. 
Soshi-hagi. 
Balistes scriptus Osbeck, Iter Chin., I, 1757, p. 144; China. 
Balistes monoceros var, scriptus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1788, p. 1463 (after Osbeck). 
Monacanthus scriptus Ginther, Cat. Fish., VIII, 1870, p. 252. 
Alutera scripta Jordan and Evermann, Fish. N. and M. Amer., III, 1808, p. 
R70: 
Osbeckia scrifta Jordan and Fowler, Proc. U.S, Nat. Mus., XXV, 1902, p. 
277; Kiusiu ; Nagasaki. 
Habitat.—In shore ; China ; Hawaii ; New Guinea ; East Indies ; islands off west 
coast of Mexico ; Jolo ; Nagasaki ; Tokyo. 
Head as measured to upper edge of gill-opening 33, height of body at origin of 
second dorsal 33, ditto at origin of dorsal spine 3} in total length without caudal. 
Hye 4%, interorbital 3%, snout 17 in head. D. I1—46; A. 48; P.. 14; € 12. 
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