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Family BALISTID^. 

 Balistes carolinensis Gmelin. 



Trigger Fish. 



Mr. Hand reports that a fish, probably this species, has been 

 seen in the pounds at Cape May Point. 



Family MONACANTHID^. 



Alutera schoepfii (Walbaum). 



Orange File Fish. 

 Noted at Sea Isle City on July 5th, 1906, by Mr. W. J. Fox. 



Family TETRODONTID^. 



Spheroides maculatus (Schneider). 

 Puffer. 



One was secured at Sea Isle City on July 1st, 1906, by Mr. W. 

 J. Fox. Again noted on July 15th. 



This fish occurs all along the shore of Delaware Bay from Cape 

 May Point to Green Creek. Abundant all along the bay shore at 

 Green Creek on June 9th, 1907. The largest examples were 

 about 10 inches long. One found on June 23d. Called "toad 

 fish." 



Spheroides testudineus (Linniseus). 



Plate 68, 

 Southern Puffer. 



Distinguished from the last by the very broad, flattened inter- 

 orbital space, its width more than one-half the snout. 



This species is included upon the authority of Dr. W. C. Ken- 

 dall. He writes that there is an example in the U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 about a foot in length, collected by S. F. Baird at Beesley's Point. 



