334 F.XI'F.DITIOX OF Till'. " AI.IiATKOSS.- |s;i!( lOOO. 



AISS. AI. C. Z. 2i»773, (I iiiclirs Idiij.-, fn.in .laluit, and A180, M. C. Z. 297(i7, 

 from Arhmi: and ()SS74, from Suva, Fiji Islands. 



OSTRACIIDAE. 

 Ostracion cornutus I.ixm':. 



Syst. Xal. cd. U), 17.5S, p. :«!. Dav, Fishr.s o( Iii.lia, ISTS, p. ll'.tT, ])l. 17(i, tiji. 4. 

 Ostracion (AcanlhostTadon) tircus Blkeker, .\tl:is Iclilh., ISti.'), 5, p. iil, o."), I:il). 'JO'J. Ostnir. 2, 

 fig. 3, and 204, Ostrar. 4, fig. 4. 



iMcUinn rontulii .Iokdax * Skai.e, Bull. V . .*!. Bui-. Fish.. UllXi. 25, p. :ifiS, 



No. .\ll(t. a siiecimcn U)\ inches loni^ from Tontial;il)U. Tonga Islands. 



Ostracion nasus Hi.odi. 



Ausl.Fi.sche, 17S7, 1, p. 121 (llSl, laf. 13S. Cii-NTHEU, Cat., 1.S7I). 8. ]). 20:). Day, Fisli.'s of 

 India, 1878, p. 690. 

 • iOsiranoi, Inhnriihiliitn .Iordan & Seale, Bull. F. .S. Bui-. M.sh., I!K)7, 26, ji. 3.5. 



Ono sjjcfiinen. No. 09092, one incli lonji from [Nloen, Truk (iroup, Caroline 

 Islands. One sj^jecimen M. C. Z. 29600, i^g^g inches long from Suva, Yi]\ Islands. 



The specimens agree closely with 0. tuberculatum as described by Jordan & 

 Seale, Cli'mther, and Day (lor. cit.). 



According to (iiinther, 0. cubicus, which he considers synonymous with 0. 

 tuberculatum. Cat., 8, p. 260, has the back slightly convex without raised ridge 

 in tlie m(>(lian line. According to Day — Utc. cil., in O. ikisus tlic width of the 

 body is greater than the height, and in 0. cubicus the width about cciuals the 

 height. In this character our specimens agree with 0. nasus. 



TETRAODONTIDAE. 



Spheroides hypselogeneion ( Hi.eekeh). 



Jordan & Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 1900, 25, p. 30S. 



Telrnodnn hypselntii-neinn Bi.eeker, Nat. Tijd.s. Nod. liid., I.S.")2, 3, ]). 300. Bi.eeker, .\tlas li-lith., 

 180.-), 5. p. 00, 01. tab. 2I.S, (iyninod. 9, fi(i. ."). 



No. 08837, three specimens 3 to 3g inches long fi'om Funafuti, EUice Islands. 

 M. C. Z. 29429 (1 specimen). 



