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in a slight hook, overlapping the lower jaw. The caudal fin 

 is distinct, and the pectoral a narrow fringe behind the gill 

 opening; but I am unable to find a trace of the dorsal and anal 

 fins." Habitat unknown. 



Under the name Diodon pilosus De Kay describes and 

 figures a specimen 2 inches long which he considered identical 

 with the Diodon pilosus of Mitchill, but which may be 

 the young of Diodon hystrix, a species not yet recorded 

 in New York waters. 



Genus cHiiiOMYCTERus Bibron 

 Body broad, depressed, moderately inflatable. Dermal spines 

 short, stout, immovable, triangular, each with three roots; 

 nasal tube simple, with two lateral openings; the tube some- 

 times rounded, sometimes flattened, and with the partition 

 feeble and easily torn so that the tentacle appears divided; 

 caudal peduncle short; fins small, formed as in Diodon; jaws 

 without median suture. Species numerous, of smaller size than 

 those of Diodon, the spines broader and lower, their bases 

 forming a coat of mail. 



Subgenus cyclichthys Kaup 



304 Chilomycterus schoepfi (Walbaum) 



Spiny Boxfish; Burfish; CucumberfisJi 



.Diodon schoepfi Walbaum, Art Gen. Pise. 601, 1792, Long Island. 

 Diodon maculostriatus Mitchill, Trans. Lit. & Phil. Soc. N. Y. I, 470, 



pi. VI, fig. 3, 1815, New York; De Kay, N. Y. Fauna, Fishes, 323, 



pi. 56, fig. 185, 1842. 

 Diodon rivulatus Ouviee, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. IV, 129, pi. 6, 1818, New 



lork. 

 Diodon nigrolineatus Ayees, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist. IV, 68, 1842, Brook- 

 haven, Long Island. 

 GMlomyctertis geometricus Gijnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. VIII, 310, 1870; 



Jordan & Gilbert, Bull. 16, U. S. Nat. Mus. 863, 1883; Bean, Bull. 



U. S. F. C. VII, 132, 1888. 

 Chilomycterus schoepfli Bean, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. IX, 369, 1897. 

 Chilomycterus schoepfi Jordan and Evermann, Bull. 47, TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 



1748, 1898, pi. GOLXVI, fig. 649, 1900; H. M. Smith, Bull. U. S. F. C. 



1897, 105, 1898. 



Body elliptic, a little broader than deep at gill openings, the 

 depth four ninths of total length without caudal. Caudal 



