Nof inK'dHiiJioii iildiiu; tlie cojist, etiteriiii;- rli(- hays ; only 

 met with in .summer, never in colil \v(\-i1her : SDmeliines com- 

 mon in Wofcesler county. 



AcAit. (Vi(j,. S. I. 



Tin(^Hoi)Toi)ox r,]eek. 



T. I'lLOSLV. 



The Hairy l^ox Fish. 



Form oval, a- little llattened above, inllated. The spines 

 are hair-like, one-eighth of an inch long in an example lA 

 ineh long. The larg« specimen in the Paris Museum {'Ih 

 ieet long) is covered witji round, lu'own spot.s. 



Fin-rays:--D. 12: 1'. 20 : A. 1 1 ; C. '.). 



T. pilosus, (Guenther XIU. ].. :;il"..^ 



DioJon [liJo-sx^, iMitcli. Ti-ans. Lit. iV- Phil. Soc. New York. 

 I. p. 471, ]d. <;, tig. I. 



Enters Chesapeake J^ay i'rom tlie iKvan, 1)Ut seems t'-- he 

 rare in IMarvland watci-s. 



Til— TETIIODON™ )^ E. 



THTRODON. Linue". 



T. r-.EVKATU,-. 



The Lineated PiifFer, or Sniootli Swell Fish. 



liody elongated, cylindrical, gradually tai)ering heliiud: 

 anterior portion of body most prominent; abdomen [)cndu- 

 lous, and t'uruished with small three-rooted spines, ['ni- 

 ibrm dee]> olive-green above, sides silvery, abdomen white. 



Fin-rays:-~D. i:;— 14; P. IG— 17; A. 12; 0. 11 — i:5. 



T. In'vigatus, L. Syst. Nat. I, ]). 411; DoKay, Now York 

 Fauna, Fish. p. 329, pi. rA\, lig. 182; Storer, Mem. Am. 

 Acad. VIII, p. 418 pi. 34, tig. 1. 



— mathcmatlcus, Mitch. Lit. iV: I'hil. Triins. New \'ork, I, 

 p. 474, ]d. ('». lig. (V, Storcr, Boston Journ. Nat. Hist. IV, p, 

 183. 



