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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



We have 20 specimens from Apia and Pago Pago. Life colors of one from Apia, blackish olive, 

 unmarked, the spines white; gill-opening black; all the tins dull olive, the posterior part fading to 

 yellow, brightest on pectoral. Some have sparse black spots on belly. Others are dark olive above, 

 bright yellow below, with or without black spots. Margin of caudal always yellowish, vent always 

 black. 



One specimen from Pago Pago, the variety cilrvrwllus, was lemon-yellow, the back irregularly 

 blackish olive. 



Fig. 70.— Tetraodon nigropunctalus Bloeh & Schneider. 



1304. Tetraodon immaculatus Bloch & Schneider. Fiji (Gunther); Samoa; New Ireland; Micro- 

 nesia; New Caledonia; Fate; Shortland I. (Seale); New Guinea; East Indies. 



Adult examples. 



Tetraodon immaculatus Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth. 1801, 507; after Tetraodon sans taclie of Lactipede, I, 475. 



Gunther, Cat., vnr, 291, Natal, Zanzibar, Mauritius, Pinang, New Caledonia, Australia. 

 Crayracion immaculatus, Bleeker, Atlas, V, 75, tab. ccxi, fig:. 1, East Indies. 

 Tetraodon sordidus Ruppell, Atlas Fische, 64, 1828, Red Sea. 

 Tetraodon parvus De Joannes, Mag. Zool. 1835, IV, pi. 15. 

 Tetraodon scabcr Eydoux & Souleyet, Voy. Bonite, 214, pi. 10, fig. 1. 

 Tetraodon basilevskianus Basilewsky, Mem. Soc. Mosc, x, 1S55, 202. 

 Tetraodon kunhardli Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., 197. 

 Tetraodon aspiltis Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. lud., n, 495, East Indies. 



Young examples. 



Tetraodon maniltensis Proee\ Bull. Philom. 1822, 130, Manila. Peters, Berl. Mon. 1876, 853, Amboina, New Ireland. 



Crayracion maniltensis Bleeker, Atlas, v, 69, tab.ccvm, fig. 2, Eatt Indies. 



Tetraodon virgatus Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, 62, pi. 39, figs. 8 and 9. 1846. 



Tetraodon immaculatus var. virgatus, Gunther, Cat., vm, 292, Ceram, Amboina, Philippines, Cape York, Sydney, 



Micronesia. 

 Tetraodon carduus Cantor, Malay, Fish, 375, 1850, Pinang. 

 Holacanthus pilosus Gronow, Syst.. ed. Gray, 28, 1854. 

 Dilobomycter longicaudus Bibron, Rev. Zool. 1855, 279. 

 Tetraodon immaculatus, Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, Samoa. 



Of this species we have five young from Apia, agreeing very closely with Dr. Bleeker's figure of 

 Crayracion maniltensis. The color is greenish with about 8 dark streaks on each side, the caudal dark 

 with darker edge, the gill-opening black. 



Apparently Dr. Gunther is right in regarding Tetraodon maniltensis, with the back streaked, as the 

 young of Tetraodon immaculatus, in which species the back is plain olive. Specimens before us from 

 Negros, in the Philippines, show that the black stripes on the back disappear with age. Both Gunther 

 and Bleeker record specimens of the striped form, maniltensis, of 10 to 12 inches in length. All our 



