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incisors on each side of the upper jaw. The upper lobe of the caudal fin is 

 slightly longer than the lower. The scales of the body are very minute. 

 In life the color was brillant yellow, w'hich has changed in spirits to a dull 

 lustreless yellow. The dorsal, anal, and ventral fins are edged with dusky 

 brown, almost black in some places. There is a diffuse patch of light brown 

 on the operculum. 



Type (M. C. Z. No. 29,053) a single specimen five inches long taken near 

 Cooper's Island, in Castle Sound, Bermudas, by Messrs. 0. Brj^ant and J. T. 

 Xichols. 



BALISTIDAE. 

 Balistes carolinensis Gmelin. Turbot. 



B. capriscus G.melin. Goode, '76\ p. 25. 



Distribution. — Tropical Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea. 



D. 3 + 27 ; A. 25. 



We took several specimens in fish pots in about five fathoms off Flatts 

 Inlet, and I have also one very small one from Sargassum of the Challenger 

 Banks given me by Mr. J. T. Nichols. The species grows to considerable size 

 and is frequently eaten, although the flesh is drj" and tasteless. 



B. vetula Lixne. Queen turbot. 

 Goode, '76^ p. 26. 

 Distribution. — West Indian region generally. 

 D. 3 + 29 ; A. 27. 



Not taken by Goode, but nevertheless rather common. A regular visitant 

 at Bermuda, as several are taken every year. The specimen before me was 

 brought into the Biological Station during the summer of 1904. 



MONACANTHIDAE. 



Alutera soripta (Osbeck). 

 Goode, '76% p. 26. 



Distribution. — Tropical seas of both hemispheres. 

 D. 1 + 47; A. 51. 



A single specimen of this species was speared at Bermuda during the summer 

 of 1904 and obtained by Professor Mark. 



TETRAODONTIDAE. 

 Spheroides spengleri (Bloch). Puffer. 



Chilichthys spengleri (Bloch). 

 Goode, '76«, p. 22. 



Distribution. — Eastern Atlantic. 

 D. 7 ; A. 6. 



