FAMILY OSTRACIONIDE — LACTOPHRYS. 343 
For the above description, I am indebted to Dr. Storer. It will undoubtedly be found in our 
waters. 
The Ostracion sex-cornutus, or Six-horned Trunk-fish, which appears in Dr. Mitchill’s 
Supplement to his Memoir on the Fishes of New-York, was brought from the Gulf of Mexico. 
It belongs to this genus. 
The Shagreened Ostracion, noticed by Pennant as occurring off the coast of New-England, 
is not sufliciently described to enable us to indicate with any certainty the species, 
