368 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



1289. Iiactoria schlemmeri Jordan & Snyder. Laysan. 



Lactoria schlemTneri Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., .\.\vir, 9J5, 1904, Laysan. 



1290. Lactoria cornuta ( Linnseus) . Moamoa. Samoa; Fiji; Guam; Marcus I.; New Guinea; Tahiti 



and Shortland 1. (Seale); East Indies; Japan. 

 Of this fantastic species, the most abundant of the group in the East Indies, we have two specimens 

 from Apia. Dr. Giinther records it from Fiji, Seale from Guam, and Bryan & Herre from Marcus 

 Island. In the length of the horns this species is subject to considerable variation. 



AEACANA Gray. 



1291. Aracana spilonota Gilbert. Hawaii. 



Family TETR.AODONTID^. 



Species of this group are more abundant in the East Indies than in the South Seas. About Samoa 

 they are not very common. They are known as sui and are regarded as poisonous, although none of 

 the species has the bad repute possessed at Hawaii by Telraodon Jdspidus. 



SPHEROIDES (Lac^pede) Dnmeril. 



1292. Spheroides oceanicus (Jordan & Evermann). Hawaii. 



Lagocephalus oceanicus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xxii. 199, 1902 (1903). Honolulu. 

 This species is known from two young examples taken at Honolulu. It is a typical Laijocephalua, 

 close to the European Spheroides pemwnii. There is a most perfect gradation between the type of 

 Lagocephalus and that of Spheroides. 



1293. Spheroides sceleratus (Forster). Tahiti; New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 



1294. Spheroides hypselogeneion (Bleeker). Fiji; Samoa; East Indies; Australia. 



Telraodon hypselogeneion Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., ni, 300. East Indies. Bleeker. Atlas, v, 61, tab. ccxiii, 

 fig. 5, East Indies. Gunther, Cat., vnir27", 1870, Zanzibar, Seychelles Fiji, Australia 

 Of this species we found four examples, two at Apia and two at Pago Pago. The coloration is well 

 represented in Bleeker's plate. The specimens from Apia have the dark bars on the head and the 

 dark lateral stripe strongly marked. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, dark olive, much speckled with whitish, a dark lateral stripe 

 with a creamy area below it; belly yellowish; iris golden yellow; four dark bars on side of head between 

 gill opening and snout, most distinct below eye; tins unicolored. 



1295. Spheroides oblongus (Bloch). Fate (Seale); East Indies. 



1296. Spheroides fiorealis Cope. Hawaii. 



This species is known to us from a few young examples from Hawaii. 



1297. Spheroides insularum De Vis. New Hebrides. 



Spheroides insularum De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soe. N. S. W., viii, 456, 1884, Api (New Hebrides). 



1298. Spheroides Isevis (De Vis). South Seas. 



Telraodon twvis De Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W,, viii, J.'ifi. 1884. South Seas. 



TETRAODON Linnasus. 



This genus contains short-bodied species, with the nasal tentacle bifid, without opening. The 

 species are especially abundant in the East Indies. 



1299. Tetraodon aerostaticus (Jenyns). Tahiti; Guam; New Guinea (Macleay); Fate (Seale); 



Japan; East Indies. 

 Tetraodon lineatus Bloch, Ausland. Fiache, i, 1786, 128, pi. CXLI. and of various authors (not of Linnaeus). 

 Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Poiss., 287, pi. cxxv, fig. 2, 1847, Nagasaki. 



