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Illustration. 



CHYLOMYCTERUS SCHCEPFI." 649 



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1748 



Burr-fish ; 

 Common Burr-fish 

 Rabbit-fish ; 

 Swell-toad ; 

 Swellfish. 



"Head 2^; depth 3. D. 12; A. 10. 

 Body a little broader than deep at gill open- 

 ings ; interocular space broad, concave ; eyes 

 large, lateral, nearly as long as snout, each with 

 a cirrus above it, longer than pupil ; gill open- 

 ing about as wide as eye, opposite upper anterior part of pectoral. 

 About 9 spines between eye and tail, their height equaling diameter 

 of pupil ; spines on belly much smaller, partly imbedded in skin ; 

 some of the posterior with cirri ; spines on caudal peduncle ; ante- 

 rior root of each spine little if any larger than others. Pectoral fin 

 deeper than long, the margin undulate, the upper lobe longest. 

 Color, greenish, belly pale; a round, black, ocellated spot above 

 pectorals, not as large as eye, a larger one behind pectorals, another 

 at base of dorsal, with a smaller one below it ; back and sides with 

 parallel black stripes of uniform width, about as wide as the inter- 

 spaces, those on the back running longitudinally, those on sides 

 obliquely downward and backward, those on front of head running 

 crosswise, a dark bar at base of dorsal ; belly pale in the adult, often 

 black in the young ; other fins plain. Length, 6 to 10 inches." 



Blow-fishes. On page 425, U. S. Commission, 1895, in check 

 list of North American Fishes, Jordan & Everman, under "family" 

 name of "Puffers," give the various names of several varieties 

 of Blow-fish, Swell Toads, etc., which frequent the East Coast, 

 and which I have caught. I conclude to group them under the 

 general name of "Blow-fish," as above. They are the Toad-fish, 

 Smooth Puffers, Swellfish, Southern Puffers, Swell Toads, Tambors, 



