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anterior luargiii of the eye, th(> third hclow the posterior iiKirsiiii: in one or two 

 specimens there is also a faint l)loteh-like band across the back, just back of the 

 highest part of the back or luunp. 



These additional colors may be characters of the young and can hardly be 

 considered of specific xalue; the close agreement with Bennett's figure would 

 l^erhaps justify its iilentification with that species notwithstanding the remote- 

 ness of the two localities; howevei-, Bleeker has described a species under the 

 name oi ('. bcnnetti which he considers identical with Bennett's C. ocellatus. 

 In his Atlas, 5, Bleeker restores C. ocellatus Bennett, and figures it (Tab. 214, 

 Gymnod. Tali. 10, fig. •'>), fiut this figure is ai)]iarently of a ((uite different spe- 

 cies from Bennett's ('. dcvlhitus. 



Inasmuch as Bennett's name, ocellatus, is preoccu])icd l)y Bloch, our sjieci- 

 mens, even should they prove identical with Bennett's, would reriuire a new name. 



Head 2.5 in length; eye 4 in head; snout 1.68; interorbital about 8;. dorsal 

 1(1; anal 9; body covered with fine prickU^s. 



DIODONTIDAE. 

 Diodon hystrix Linne. 



Sysl. X:it. cil. lU, 17.")S, p. -i'-io. .Iordax & Hvermann, Bull. V . S. Fish. Cciiiiiii., l'.MI."i, 23, pi. 1, 

 p. 4.37, fig. I'.I2. 



No. A31, a specimen llf inches long, from Papeete, Tahiti, Society Islands. 



ANTENNARIIDAE. 



Antennarius bigibbus (L.\cepei)e). 



Bleeker, .\tlas Ichth.. lS(i."). 5. p. 10. 21, pi. HM), i\n. :'.. 

 GcNTHER, Fische (Ipr SiuUccN l,S7(i, 5, p. Ki.'), lul'. 10.'), fig. B. 

 Loi>luu.^ biyihbus Lac. Hist. Xat. Poi.ss., 179S, 1, p. :i2.-). 



No. 05944, a specimen 21 inches long horn Fakarava, Taumotu Islands. 



