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We liave 20 specimens from Apia and Pago Pago. Life colors of one from Apia, blackish olive, 

 unmarked, the spines white; gill-opening black; all the tins dull olive, the posterior jiart fading to 

 yellow, brightest on pectoral. Some have sparse black spots on belly. Others are dark olive above, 

 bright yellow below, with or without black spots. Margin of caudal always yellowish, vent always 

 black. 



One specimen frotn Pago Pago, the variety rilrinflluK, was lemon-vellow, the back irregularh- 

 blackish olive. 



Fig. 'O.— Tclraodon nigrupunciatus Bloch & Schneider. 



1304. Tetraodou immaculatus Bloch & Schneider. Fiji (Giinther); Samoa; New Ireland; i\Ii 

 nesia; New Caledonia; Fat^; Shortland I. (Seale); New Guinea; East Indies. 



Adult e.xamples. 



Tetraodon immaculatus Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth. 1801, ."JOT; i 

 Gunther, Cat., vni, 291, Natal, Zanzibar, Mauritius. Pinang. Ne« 



Crayraclon immaculatus, Bleeker. Atlas, v, 75, tab. crxi, fig. 1. East Indies. 



Tetraodon.mrdidus Riippell, Atlas Fisehe, 64, 1S2.S, Red Sea. 



Tetraoilon panms De Joannes, Mag. Zool. 1835, iv, pi. l.^i. 



Tetraodon scaber Eydoux & Souleyet, Voy. Bonite, 214, pi. 10, fig. 1. 



Tetraodon baaUe\'skianus Basilewsky, Mem. Soe. Mose., -x, 1855, 202. 



Tetraodon kunhardti Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., 197. 



Tetraodon aspilus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., ii, 495, East Indies. 

 Young e.\amples. 



Tetraodon maniUensis Procfi, Bull. Philom. 1822, 130, Manila. Peters, Berl. Mon. l.S76,853, Amboina, New Ireland. 



Crai/racion manillensis Bleeker, Atlas, v, 69, tab. ccvni, fig. 2, Eas>t Indies. 



Tetraodon virgatus Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, 62, pi. 39, figs. 8 and 9. 1846. 



Tetraodon immaeulaius var. virgatus, Gnnther, Cat., viii, 292, Ceram, Amboina, Philippines, Cape York, Sydney, 

 Micronesia. 



Tetraodon carduus Cantor, Malay, Fish, 375, 185U, Pinang. 



Holacanthus pilosus Gronow, Syst., ed. Gray, 28, 18.54. 



DUdbomycter longicaudus Bibron, Rev. Zool. 185.5, 279. 



Tetraodon immaculatus. Fowler, Proe. Ac. Nat. Soi. Phila. 1900, Samoa. 



Of this species we have five young from Apia, agreeing very closely with Dr. Bleeker's figure of 

 Cmyracion manillensis. The color is greenish with about 8 dark streaks on each side, the caudal dark 

 with darker edge, the gill-opening black. 



Apparently Dr. Gunther is right in regarding Tetraodon manillensis, with the back streaked, as the 

 young of Tetraodon immaculatus, in which species the back is plain olive. Specimens before us from 

 Negros, in the Philippines, show that the black stripes on the back disappear with age. Both Giinther 

 and Bleeker record specimens of the striped form, vianilleiisis, of 10 to 12 inches in length. All our 



