424 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



2158. Monacanthus oppositus Poey. 



Cuba. 



Monacanthus oppositus I'oey, MemoriiiB, ii, 331, 1861, Havana. 



Genus 673. PSEUDO MONACANTHUS Bleeker. 



rscudomonucantliiis ];it'fkt'r. Xedi^rl. 'J\vd. Dierkiiiuie. iii, l)S()(j, 11 {uutciuiua). 



2159. Pseudomonacanthus amphioxys (Cope). 



St. Martins Island, West Indies. 



Monacanthus amjihioxys Cope. Traus. Amer. I'liilus. Sue. 1S71, 477, St. M;irlius. 



Genus 674. ALUTERA Cuvier. 



Les aluiires Cuvier, Ki'gne Animal, ed. 1, 11, l.">3, 1817 (monoceros). 



Snbgenns CERATACAXTHUS Gill. 



Ceratacanthus Gill, Cat. Fishes East Coast U. S., 57, 18H1 (auranliacus). 



2160. Alutera schoepfii (Walbauni). File-fish; JAja; Fool-Jish. 



Cape Cod to tb(^ Carolinas and Florida. 



Batiste? schoepfii Walbauni, Artedi I'iscium, Itil, 17!)2, Lou;^ Island; after 

 St'hopf, Berlin. Ces. Naturf., viii, 186, 1788. 



2161. Alutera punctata Agassiz. Long Mingo. 



Jamaica to Babia. 



Alutera punctata Agassiz, Pise. Brasil., 437, i)l. 72, 1829, Brazil. 



Subgenus OSltKCKIA .Ionian & Kveriiiaiiii. 



Osheckia Jordan A: Evermaun, uew subgenus {scripla). 



2162. Alutera scripta (Osbeck). Unicorn-fish: Lija Trompa. 



Tropical seas; West Indies; Nortb Carolina; oft' west coast of Mexico; 



Clarion Island, Kevillagiii-edo Islands. 

 Batistes scriptus Osbeck, Iter Chiuensis, 1, 144, 1757, China. 



Subgenus ALUTERA Curler. 



2163. Alutera moiioceros (Osbeck). Lija Barbuda. 



West Indies; East Indies; Japan. 



Balistes monoceros Osbeck, Iter Chiuensis, 110, 1757, Asia. 



Suborder OSTRACODERMI. The Trunk-Fishes. 



Family CLXXIII. OSTRACIIDiE. 



Genus 675. LACTOPHRYS Swainson. Thrie-aiKjled I'ruuk-fishes, 



jMcto2)hr!is^wiunso\i, Nat. Hist. Classn. Fishes, ii,l'.l4, 324, IS'Sd (trigon us, etc.). 



Subgenus liHINESOMI'S Snaiuson. 



Jihinesomus Swainson, Nat. Hist. Classn. I'lshcs, ii, i;i4, 324, 1839 (IriqueUr). 



2164. Lactophrys triqueter (Liuna'us). Trnnk-fisli : lloik Shellfish; Drunken-fish; 



Chapin ; I'late-fish. 

 West Indies, north to the Bermudas; K<y West and Pensacola. 

 Ostracion triqueter Linna'us, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 330, 1758. India. 



Subgenus CHAPIM'S .Jordan ic Evermann. 



Chapinus Jordan & Evermann, new subgenus (hicuudalis). 



2165. Lactophrys bicaudalis ( Linna'Us). Chapin: Spotted Tnuik-fish. 



West Indies, from Cul>a to Ascension Island. 



Ostracion bicaudalis Linnanis, Syst. Nat., ed. x. 330, 17.58, India; aiter .Vrtedi. 



Subgenus LACTOPHRYS Swainson. 



2166. Lactophrys trigouus (Linna-us). Common Trunk-finh; Chapin: Shell-fish. 



West Indies, north to Bermuda and Key We.st; occasiouiilly northward in 



Gulf Stream to Holmts Hole, Mass;ichu.setts, and Chisapeake Bay. 

 (>stracio7i tritjouus Liunaiis, Syst. Nat., ed. \, 330, 1758, India. 



