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The median, dark, vertical lenticular blotch extending- from back to 

 bell}' is indistinct on its edoes and somewhat broken, tending- to fade 

 in spirits, many of the scales in the region having a light, central 

 spot. The ])lotch is also ditiused backward, the whole posterior part 

 of the body, including the soft dorsal and anal tins, being nearly black, 

 slightly shaded with yellowish. The scales posterior to the blotch 

 have white centers as have also those anterior to it, only in a less 

 marked degree. Following- the longitudinal rows of scales, the cor- 

 responding rows of spots approach the character of stripes, converg- 

 ing and growing narrower on caudal peduncle. Anterior to the 

 l)lotch the body was yellow in life, the caudal tin bright yellow, some 

 of the color still persisting in spirits. The entire body may have 

 been washed with yellow. The ventrals are black. The soft dorsal 

 and anal have a black border, narrowly edged with white or yellow. 



In (Tiinther's plate, the soft dorsal and anal are shown as pale; they 

 are, in fact, almost black. 



22. FORCIPIGER LONGIROSTRIS (Broussonnet). 



23. HOLOCANTHUS IMPERATOR (Bloch). 



One young .specimen with the pale bands broad and only about X"! 

 in number. 



24. HENIOCHUS PERMUTATUS (Linnaeus). 



{Heniochus acuminatum of authors. ) 



25. ZANCLUS CANESCENS (Linnaeus). 



26. ZEBRASOMA FLAVESCENS RHOMBEUM Kittlitz. 



27. HEPATUS LINEATUS (Gmelin). 



28. ACANTHURUS LITURATUS (Forster). 



29. CTENOCH.(ETUS STRIATUS Quoy and Gaimard. 



30. BALISTAPUS UNDULATUS (Park). 



31. OSTRACION TUBERCULATUM Linnaeus. 



32. TETRAODON HISPIDUS Linnaeus. 



33. TETRAODON OPHRYAS Cope. 



(? Ovoides netosiis R. Smith. ) 



One example measuring 180 mm. The entire body, dorsal, anal, and 

 caudal fins are closely covered with small white spots, none of which 

 are quite as large as the pupil. They are largest on upper part of 

 snout, below and behind eye, around base of pectoral, on bases of dor- 

 sal and anal, and on caudal peduncle. On occiput and middle of back 

 they are reduced to mere specks. The pectorals are whitish, each ray 

 being dusky. Eye 8 in head; interorbital space 1,8; length of head 



