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Crayracion lineatus Bleeker, Atlas, v, 70, tab. ccvi, fig. 1, tab. CCXII, fig. 1, Bali, Singapore, Celebes, Amboina. 

 Tetraodon aerostations Jenyns, Voyage Beagle, 152, 1842, locality unknown. 

 Tetraodon Uneatus, Kner, Novara Fische, 409, Tahiti. 



This species, common from Japan to the East Indies, is recorded by Giinther from Fiji, by Kner 

 from Tahiti, and by Seaie from Guam. The black stripes on the abdomen on this and other species 

 disappear with age. 



It is very close to Tetraodon slellatus Bloch & Schneider, of the East Indies, with which Dr. 

 Giinther identifies it. The latter has, however, the dorsal spotted, like the caudal, besides other 

 minor differences. In Tetraodon aerostaticus the dorsal is immaculate. The back in both is profusely 

 spotted with black. 



1300. Tetraodon mappa Lesson. New Guinea (Macleay); East Indies. 



1301. Tetraodon hispidus Linnseus. Sue. Hawaii; New Guinea; Samoa; Aneiteum; New Han- 



over (Peters); China; East Indies; Panama. 



1 Tetraodon hispidus Linnseus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 1758, '33, China; after Lagerstrom (probably this species, the spots 



not indicated in Lagerstrom's figure): Syst. Nat., ed. xn, 1766, 411. 

 Tetraodon hispidus, Giinther, Cat., VIII, 297, 1870, Red Sea, Zanzibar, Ceylon, Mozambique, Port Natal. 

 Tetraodon perspicillarig Riippell, Atlas Fische, 63, Red Sea. 

 Tetraodon implulus Jenyns, Voy. Beagle, Fish, 152, 1842, Vanieolo. 

 Crayracion implutus (as iatema in plate), Bleeker, Atlas, v, 71, tab. ccv, fig. 3, Sumatra, Cocos, Solor, Timor, 



Batjan, Amboina, Banda. 

 Tetraodon iatema Richardson, Voy. Sulphur, 1842, 124, pi. lxi, fig. 2, Canton; after an incorrect drawing by John 



Reeves. Richardson, Ichth. China, 199, 1846, Canton. 

 Arethron Iatema, Bleeker, Enum. Pise. Archip. Ind., 200. 



Tetraodon hispidus {semistriatus), Giinther, Cat., vin, 1870, 297, Amboina, Aneiteum, Australia. 

 Arolhron crethizon Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 631, Panama. 



This species is very abundant in the lagoons and mullet ponds about Honolulu. It is regarded as 

 excessively poisonous, muki-muki, or deadly death, being its local name. A single specimen nearly 

 a foot long was taken at Apia. It is common in the East Indies, and we can see no difference between 

 Hawaiian specimens and others from the Riukiu Islands. It is not certain, however, that this species 

 is the original Tetraodon hispidus of Linnseus. 



The Samoan specimen is nearly smooth, dark olive, with round brown spots on sides of head as 

 well as on sides and back of body; base of caudal fin with many round spots, smaller than those 

 on body; dark stripes on belly persistent; gill-opening black with white rings; eye with white rings; 

 vent pale; tip of caudal dusky and unspotted. 



1302. Tetraodon reticularis Bloch & Schneider. New Guinea; New Britain; Guam; East Indies. 



Tetraodon reticularis Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 506, Malabar. Giinther, Cat. vin, 296, Amboina, Celebes, 



Pinang. Peters, Berl. Mon., 1876, 853, New Britain. Seale, Bishop Museum 1901, 119, Guam. 

 Arolhron tcstudiimrius Miiller, Arch. Nat., IX, 330. 

 Crayracion tcstudineus Bleeker, Atlas, v, 71, tab. ccxn, fig. 3, East Indies; not Tetraodon testudinens of Linnaeus. 



1303. Tetraodon nigropunctatus Bloch & Schneider. Sue. New Guinea; Fiji; Samoa; East 



Indies. (PI. xxxv. ) 



Tetraodon nigropunctatus Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, 507, Tranquebar. Giinther, Cat., vin, 293, Zanzibar, 



Amboina, Flores, Sumatra, Halmahera. 

 Crayracion nigropunctatus, Bleeker, Atlas, v, 74, tiib. ccvi, fig. 4, East Indies. 

 Tetraodon diadematus Ruppell, Atlas Fische, 65, pi. xvn, fig. 3, Red Sea. 



Tetraodon trichodenna Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., v, 532, Sumatra; examples with long bristles. 

 Tetraodon trichodermatoides Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., vi, 336, Flores. 

 Arolhron melanorhynchus Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., ix, 111. 

 Tetraodon nigropunctatus var. cflrfeeZta.Gun.ther, Cat., VIII, 293, 1870, Fiji; bright yellow examples. 



This species is very common about Apia and Pago Pago. It is known as sui, and is regarded as 

 poisonous. Most of our specimens are very typical, brown with black vent and snout, the caudal edged 

 with pale, and the spinules short. Some similarly colored have the body covered with bristles so long 

 as to give the appearance of coarse fur. Others are intermediate in this regard, and one has 'he 

 ground-color bright lemon-yellow. It seems clear that all belong to the same species that Giinther 

 has indicated. 



