284 SEALE. 



Siganus albopunctatus (Temminek and Schlegel). 



Head 3.1 ; dejith 3.50 ; eye 3.35 in head. 



Color pale brownish above, bluish below; body covered with small 

 blue dots, considerably less than interspaces; yellowish-brown spots on 

 the shoulders. No. 2470 ; length, 222 millimeters. 



A common food-fish of Borneo ; also recorded from the Philippines. 



Siganus hexagonata Bleeker. 



Head 3.75 ; depth 3 ; eye 3 in head. 



Color bluish, with bro-ivnish hexagonal spots larger than the inter- 

 spaces. The young show scarcely any marking after being in alcohol a 

 short time. No. 2488; length, 335 millimeters; No?. 2436 and 3685; 

 length, 100 millimeters. 



A common food-flsh of Borneo; also recorded from the Philippines. 



Siganus fucescens (Hoiittuyn). 



Head 3.65; depth 3.45; eye 3.1. 



Color dull bluish with some indistinct darker spots. Nos. 2561 and 

 3754; length, 50 to 90 millimeters. 



Common in Borneo; also in the Philippines. 



Family TEIACANTHID^E. Three-spines. 

 Triacanthus blochi Bleeker. 



Head 3.10; depth 2.80; eye slightly greater than interorbital, 3.10 in 

 head; snout 1.3 in head. 



Color silvery, with yellowish blotches on sides. Nos. 2598, 2599, 2619, 

 3688, and 2793; length, 65 to 110 millimetei-s. 



Common in Borneo; also recorded from the Philippines. Not used 

 as food unless skinned immediately after death. 



Family MONOCANTHIDiE. One-spines. 

 IVlonocanthus chinensis (Bloch). 



Color dull yellowish-brown, covered with numerous small black spots; 

 caudal barred with dusky. Easily distinguished by the very elongate 

 ventral fin. Nos. 2532, 2661, 2677, 2723, and 2743; length, 70 to 150 

 millimeters. 



Common in Borneo, also in the Philippines, but not used as food as 

 it is feputed poisonous. 



Family TBTEAODONTIDtE. Puffers, Poison-fishes. 



Tetraodon immaculatus (Bloch and Schneider) . 



In the series before me the young are colored and marked the same 

 as the adult, all being dull brown above and yellowish-white below ; with 

 four or five longitudinal lines down the back. Only one specimen. No. 



