Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 1749 



Diodon nigrolineatus, AYRES, Boat. Journ. Nat. Hist., iv, 1842, 68, Brook Haven, Long 



Island. 

 Diodon fuliginosus, DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna : Fishes, 324, pi. 55, fig. 181, 1842, New York; 



young. 

 Diodon verrucosus, DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna : Fishes, 325, pi. 56, fig. 184, 1842, New York ; 



young. 

 Chilomycterus geometricus, KAUP, Wiegm. Archiv 1847, var. a and b,- GUNTHER, Cat.,vm, 



310, 1870; GOODE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 109; JORDAN & GILBERT, Synopsis, 863, 



1883; not Diodon geometricus, BLOCK & SCHNEIDER. 



2106. CHILOMYCTERUS SPINOSUS (Lhmams). 



This species, according to Giinther, differs from Chilomycterus schcepfi 

 ouly iu the coloration, the dark lines on the back being absent. We have 

 seen 110 specimens of it and do not know whether it is a distinct species 

 or not. In case the two species are identical the name splnosus has priority. 

 West Indies and coast of Brazil; not seen by us. (spinosus, spinous.) 



Guamaiacu atinga, MARCGRAVE, Hist. Brasil., 168, 1648, Brazil. 



Orbit muricatus, Itancerictu Guamaiacu Atinga, WILLUGHBY, Historia Piscium, 145,1686, 

 Brazil ; description copied from MARCGRAVE, but with, a new figure representing Chilo- 

 mycterus scha'pfi. 



Atinga alter minor orbicularis, LISTER, Willughby, Hist. Pise., 155, 1686. 



(inainaiacu atinga, MARCGRAVE, Hist. Nat., 168, 1648, "in mari." 



Ostracion svbrotundus ventre glabro, ARTEDI, Gen. 59, No. 15, 1738. 



Diodon spinosus, LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 335, 1758, India ; based on ARTEDI. 



Le Diodon orbe, LACEPKDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., II, 16, 1798, Rio Janeiro. 



Diodon geometricus, BLOCH & SCHNEIDER, Ichth., 513, pi. 96, 1801, America. 



Cyclichthys cornutus, KAUP, AViegm. Archiv 1855, 231, Bahia. 



Chilomycterus geometricus, var. y, GtJNTHER, Cat., 311, 1870 ; type of Cyclichthys cornutus, 

 KAUP. 



2107. ( IHLOMYCTKKUS AXTILLARUM, Jordan & Rutter. 



Allied to Chilomycterus schccpfi, differing in having the whole body cov- 

 ered with black hexagonal reticulations instead of parallel lines. Supra- 

 orbital spines 2, 1 frontal spine, a single spine below and in front of eye, 

 2 between eye and gill opening; interorbital space deeply concave; a 

 transverse series of cirri on chin, and nearly all of the spines along the 

 margin of the belly have cirri, but there is none above the eyes. Spines 

 short and flat. Color in alcohol, above, chestnut brown, paler on sides, 

 yellowish below, the body everywhere covered with reticulating black 

 lines inclosing more or less nearly hexagonal areas somewhat smaller than 

 the pupil ; on the belly the lines become heavier, so that Poey's character of 

 " orange spots in a dark background" is not far wrong; an ocellated 

 black spot about the size of the eye above the pectoral, another behind it, 

 and 1 on each side of the dorsal; a black blotch on chin in front of the 

 row of cirri and another at each end. Cuba and Jamaica. Here described 

 from specimens taken at Kingston, (antillarum, of the Antilles.) 



Chilomycterus fuliginosus au species dubia? POEY, Synopsis Peso. Cuba, 429, 1868, Havana. 

 Chilomycterus antillarum, JORDAN & KUTTER, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1897, 131, Jamaica. 

 (Type, No. 5056, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. Coll. Kev. J. S. Koberts. ) 



