426 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



2176a. Spheroid es annulatus politus ((Jiiard). 



racilip Coast of tro])i(al America, San Dicj^o to Mazatlan. 



Tdrodon jiolKus Girard, Pai. K. R. tfurv., X, 3-iO, 1858, Sau Diego, California. 



2177. Spheroides formosxis (fJiinthor). 



Paiiaiua. 



Tetrodon forinosus (iiiiithcr, Cat., viii, 283, 1870, South America. 



2178. Spheroides furthii (Steindaoliner). 



Pauauia. 



Tetrodon furthii Steindacbner, Ichth. Jieitr., v, 22, 1874, Panama. 



2179. Spheroides trichocephalus (Cope). 



(;!ilf Stream, off Newport. 



Tetrodon tricliucephdlnn Co]ie, Proc Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1870, 120, Gulf Stream, 

 ort' Is'e\vi>ort, Rliode Island. 



2180. Spheroides pachygaster (Miiller ».,: Troscliel). 



Bar!) ad OS. 



Tetrodo)) (CheiUchlhiis) paclii/fiasirr jMiiller iV Troscbel, in Schomburgk's Hist. 

 Barbados, ()77, 1840, Barbados. 



Genus 678. OVOIDES Lacepede. 



Lcs oroides Lac(^pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., i, 256, 1797 (fascr; French name 

 only; based on front view of Tetraodon stellatiis). 



2181. Ovoides erethizon (Jordan ifc Gilbert). 



Panama and neiofaboring islands. 



Arothron erethizon Jordan A: Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 631, Panama. 



2182. Ovoides setosiis (Rosa Smith). 



West coast of Mexico; Revillagigedo Islands; Gulf of California. 

 Tetraodon setosiis Rosa Smith, Bull. Cal. Ac. Sci., ii, November 13, 1886, 6, 

 "Mexico.'' 



Genus 679. COLOMESUS Gill. 



Colomesiis Gill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns. 1884, 422 (psittacns). 



2183. Coloniesns psittacus (Bloch A; Schneider). 



River mouths, Guiana and northern Brazil; Rio Branco, Essequibo, Mara- 



non, and Capm at Para; " West Indies." 

 Tetrodon psittacus Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 505, 1801, "Malabar." 



Family CLXXV. CANTHIGASTERIDiE. The Sharp-nosed Puffers. 



Genus 680. CANTHIGASTEB, Swainson. 



Canthiijiister Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fi-shes, ii, 194, 1839 (diagnosis only; no 

 species mentioned; rostratiis intended). 



2184 Canthigaster punctatissimus ((iiinther). 



Pacific Coast of America, Gulf of California to Panama. 

 Tetrodon 2>nnctati88imus Giintber, Cat., viii, 302, 1870, Panama. 



2185. Canthigaster rostratus (Bloch)- 



West Indian fauna; I'ensacola; Madeiras and Bermudas. 

 Tetrodon rostratus i'.loch, Iclitii., i, pi. 146, 1782, India. 



Family CLXXVI. DIODONTID.^]. The Porcupine-Fishes. 



Genus 681. TRICHODIODON Bleaker. 



Trichodiodon Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., Gymnodontes, 49, 1867 (})ilosus). 



2186. Trichodiodon pilosus (Mitchill). 



New ^'ork. 



Diodon pilosus Mitchill. Trans. Lit. Pliilos. Sex;. N. V., i, 1815, 471, supposed to 

 be from New York Harl)or. 



