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pores similar to those of S. ahhotti^ except that the upper and lower 
branches just behind the eye are concurrent, and the line extendinj^ 
from the chin backward is very indistinct. 
Dorsal and anal of equal height; If in head; rounded. Caudal \\\ 
rounded posteriorly. Pectoral about 2 in head; its posterior edge 
convex. 
Pinkish brown above or chocolate color, becoming gradually paler 
below; back with scattered, very irregular l)lack spots and mottlings, 
all smaller than eye; no large black blotches behind pectoral or below 
dorsal; lins j)lain dusky; the caudal tipped with l)lackish in one speci- 
men; iris vellow. 
Fin. 7. — SPHEROIPES (-HRYSOPS. 
Coast of Japan, here described from four specimens, the largest 
about 300 mm. long, from Tokvo market and from Misaki. 
It is a well marked species, allied to S. pardal'ts^ but known at once 
by its color and its ])lump form. 
(Xpt'fTOs, gold; coi\\ eye.) 
3. TETRAODON Linnseus. 
Teiraodon LiNX.EUs, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1758 {lineatm). 
IjCS Oroides L.\cepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., I, 1797, p. 256 {fascc; French names 
only); based on front view of Tetraodon stellatus. 
Oruin Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 530 {rommersoni); after 
Lacepede; name preoccupied in mollusks. 
Oroides Dumeril, Zoologie Analytique, 1806; after Lacepede. 
Oonidus R.\finesque, Analyse de la Nature, 1815, p. 90 (substitute for Orurii). 
Arothron ]Muller, Abh. Berl. Akad., 1839, p. 252 {1estudinarius=reticularis) . 
Les Epipedorhynques {Epipedorlnjnrhus) Bibron, Rev. Zool., 1855, p. 279. 
I^es Dilohomycteres {Dilobomycter) liiBRoy, Eevue Zool., 1855, p. 279 {retiodaris, 
etc). 
I^es Dichotomycteres {Dicho(omycter) Bibrox, Rev. Zool., 1855, p. 279 {furiatilis; 
no diagnosis). 
Brachycephalus Hollard, Gymnodontes, 18(57, p. 324. 
Crayracion Bleekeh, Atlas Gymnod., p. 65, after Klein, 1742; type spengleri, 
erroneously supjwsed to belong to this group. 
