238 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSFAJM. vol.xxiv. 
7. SPHEROIDES RUBRIPES (Schlegel) . 
MABUKU (TRUE PUFFER), TORABUKU (TIGER PUFFER), YANAdlBUKU 
(WILLOW PUFFER). 
Ttirodon rtihrijx's Schlegkl, Fauna Japoniea, 1847, p. 283, pi. cxxiii, fig. 1, 
Nagasaki. — Gunther, Cat. Fish., VIII, 1870, p. 279, Nagasaki. — Nystrom, 
Handl. Svensk. Vet. Ak., 1887, p. 48, Nagasaki.— Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, 
p. 2, Rikiiizen, Kaga. 
Gadrophysus rubripes Bleeker, Act. Soc. Indo-Nederl., Japan, VI, p. 68. 
Lacjocephalus rubripes Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. , 1900, p. 360, 
Tokyo. 
Head 3 in length; depth 3i; depth of caudal peduncle 3| in head; 
eye 8; snout 2|; interorbital space 2f ; dorsal rays 14; anal rays 13. 
Body rather stout, the caudal peduncle not very slender, compressed 
laterally. Head large, nearly square, in transverse outline, its length 
almost equal to distance between head and insertion of dorsal; inter- 
orbital space broad, fiat. Eye small, 3^ in snout. Nostrils sepa- 
rate, located almost transversel}^ in an oval elevation; about an eye's 
diameter from eye. Teeth rather pointed anteriorly, the cutting edge 
concave; groove between the upper ones well defined, the ridges 
prominent; lower teeth wider than the upper ones. Inner flap of gill 
opening exposed. 
Latter fold of ])ody rather distinct posteriorly. A line of nnicous 
pores extends from a point on the snout backward, below and close 
to the eye, bends upward behind the eye to a point above the gill- 
opening, from which point a branch crosses the occiput to meet the line 
of the opposite side; thence backward along the upper part of the side 
of body and caudal peduncle and slopes downward to middle of base of 
caudal fin; from a point behind eye a branch runs downward, disap- 
pearing on the throat; from behind the origin of this branch a line 
extends upward, bending forward above the eye and downward pos- 
terior to the nostril, joining the line first mentioned; no inclosed 
quadrangular space behind eye; snout with a transverse line above; a 
line passes backward from chin on each side and disappears on the 
breast; an indistinct line extends from below pectoral backward above 
base of anal to caudal tin. Back with rather small prickles from inter- 
orbital space to near insertion of dorsal fin; under parts with slightly 
larger prickles from just behind chin to vent; other parts of head and 
body naked. 
Dorsal and anal rather pointed, not falcate, both of about the same 
height, 2 in head; dorsal inserted a little in advance of anal. Caudal 
truncate, If in head. Pectoral convex posteriorly, about 3 in head. 
Color dark brown above, white or yellowish below; a large black 
ocellated blotch behind the pectoral; another at base of dorsal, extend 
ing on the fin; two or three smaller blotches faintly ocellate behind 
the pectoral blotch; caudal blackish; lower fins orange in life; no hori- 
zontal stripes on sides of body. 
