Etmopterus ; Spheroides. 9g] 
fine spineless tubercles arranged irregularly, without longitudinal striz ; lateral line high, 
concurrent with back. 
Color in alcohol brownish black, with dark blackish lower side abruptly set off 
from the rest, except beneath posterior edge of the second dorsal and in an oblong 
space above ventral, where the skin of the lower side is colored like upper portion of 
body ; upper eyelid with a crescent-shaped, milky white patch near posterior angle of 
eye ; a triangular, milky white patch at the middle of the interorbital ; all the fins except 
caudal much paler than body, but the outer portion all whitish ; caudal brownish black, 
darker at tip, with a broad paler transverse band in front of the terminal dark part. 
Described and figured from a specimen 20.1 cm. long as measured to tip of caudal, 
collected at Misaki, Prov. Sagami, by Mr. Oshima, No. 3162, Science College Museum, 
Tokyo. 
XL. Spheroides pardalis (Temminck and Schlegel). (Tetraodontids.) 
Plate XXIII, fig. 89 and go; Plate XXIV. fig. 97. 
Higan-fugu (equinox puffer). 
Letraodon pardalis Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 1850, p. 282, 

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