100 UECt)Rl)s oK THE S.A. Museum 



Family OSTRACIONTIDAE. 



OSTRACION Linnaeus, 1758 ^•iibic'ii.s=tuberciil;ituiiO. 



OSTRACION TUBERCULATUM Linnaeus ( Box-fish j. 

 Oslravion t iibrrcitUil us and (>. ciihiciis Linn., Syst. Xat. (cd. x), IT.IS, p. ;331, 382. 

 Osfraciuii viibiciis Day, Fisli. India, 1878, ]). (>!)(), ])1. clxxxi, fig. 3 (syn.). 



Fii^'. ;il7. Osl nicidii 1 KbcrcHhifiuii. 



The scales are modified to form a i-i*iid cai-ajiace; i)arls around 1he <rill- 

 openin<js and l)ases of tlie fins are exjiosed to jiermil of l)reatliin^' and swimming. 



CAPROPYGIA Kaup, 18or) (unistriata). 

 CAPROPYGIA UNISTRIATA Kaup. 



f'tiprupijgid iDiistridfu Kanp. Arcii. f. Naturg., xxi, 180'). p. 220; Mernll. iS: Waite, 

 T.R.S., S.A., xxxix, l!)!.!, p. 478, pi. xvi. 



Fi<^. ;!1S. Cujirojii/fjid uiiistridtii. 



