336 KXPHDITIOX OF Till". " AI.liATIiOSS," l,SflO-U)00. 



character peculiar to tiu> youiifi;, aiul if a constant color character is of any speci- 

 fic value this should be consitlered a distinct species and not the youn<i of T. 

 inniiacidnluK. The disappearing l)lack stripe on Jordan i^' Scale's Xejiros speci- 

 mens nia\' lie (hie to the action of \\w pi'(>ser\ ati\(^ ratlier tlian to as(\ 



Canthigaster solandri i i\i( iiardson). 



Jordan & Sealk, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., I'JOG, 26, p :;71. 



Telrnndon solandri Richardson, Zool. \'oy. Sulpliur, Iclilh,, 1S4.'). ]i. 12.'), jil. ,')7, fig. 4-(). 



Nos. 059.^3, a s]ieciinen 3 inches long from Bora Bora, Society Islands, an<l 

 05823, M. C. Z. 294S7, a specimen 2| inches long from Makenio, Pauniotu 

 Islands. 



These sjiecimens are badly faded, but they agree vei\\' well with a s|)ecnnen 

 from Samoa identified by .loi'dan t^* Scale, and with \hv d(>scri])tioiis of ('. snhmdri. 



Canthigaster constellatus, sp. nov. 

 I'hiti' 7, lujurc .'. 



Type No. ()o7()7 U. S. N. AI., 2 inches long; cotype Xo. 2939(i, M. ('. Z. 



Xo. t)o922, nine specimens if to 2 inches long from Fakarava, Paumotu 

 Islands. These specimens are immature and faded and therefore difhcult of 

 identification. But, so far as the color can be detei-mined, they agree with tiie 

 hgure of Tctrodon ocellaius Bennett in Fishes of Ceylon, pi. 21, in having 

 apparently the same sort of subdorsal ocellus and the same sort of lines about 

 the eye and snout and back, es])('('iall\' between the dors;il and caudal: ilie longi- 

 tudinal row of blue spots in liennett's figure is indicated by a similar row ol 

 white spots in the present specimens; our specimens show in addition irregular 

 dusky blotches, sometimes coalescing, forming a soil of biuid, soni(Mimes barel\' 

 visible, extending from just above the gill opening to caudal; the lower edge* 

 of these dark blotches sharply define the white ventral portion of the fish; in 

 one or two of oui' si)ecimens the largest blotch, which is situated just iuitei-ior 

 to a vertical line from th(> subdorsal ocellus, extends a short distance on the side 

 of the belly as a faint dusky bar and upward toward the back; in several there 

 are faint traces of three blotches between the snout and the pectoral, the lirsl 

 situateil some distance back of the angle of llie mouth, the second below the 



