114 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



TELEOSTOMI. ACANTHOPTERI. 



MONACANTHIDAE. 



Batistes ciliatus Mitchill, Amer. month, mag. & crit. rev., 1818, 

 vol. 2, p. 326. "Bahama Straits." 



Monacanthus massachusettensis Storer. Storer, Mem, Amer. 

 acad., 1863, vol. 8, p. 425, pi. 34, fig. 4. 



Mass.— Massachusetts Bay (Storer 1839 and 1863). 



264. Monacanthus hispidus (Linne). 

 Filefish. 



Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. nat. mus., 1898, pt. 2, p. 

 1715; 1900, pt. 4, pi. 259, fig. 635. 



Balistes hispidus Linne, Syst. nat., ed.- 12, 1766, vol. 1, p. 405. 

 " Carolina." 



Monacanthus signifer Storer. Storer, Mem. Amer. acad., 1863, 

 vol. 8, p. 426, pi. 35, fig. 1. 



Mass. — Lynn and Nantucket (Storer 1843 a); Hingham; 

 Lynn; Nahant; Boston Harbor (Storer 1863); Marthas Vineyard 

 (B. S. N. H., Hyatt coll.); Cape Cod (Goode 1879); Woods Hole 

 (Baird 1873; Bean 1880 and Smith 1898). 



R. I. — Nc'W'port (Bean 1880); Xarragansett Bay (R. L fish 

 comm. 1899). 



Conn. — Stonington (Linsley 1844). 



265. Alutera schoepfii (Walbaum). 

 Foolfish; Turbot; Hogfish. 



Jordan & Evermann, Bull. 47, U. S. nat. mus., 1898, pt. 2, p. 

 1718; 1900, pt. 4, pi. 260, fig. 636. 



Balistes schoepfii Walbaum, Artedi Pise, 1792, p. 461. "Long 

 Island." 



Monacanthus auranticus DeKay. Storer, Mem. Amer-. acad., 

 1863, vol. 8, p. 423, pi. 34, fig. 3. 



Me.— Portland (Storer 1845, 1848 and 1863). 



Mass.— Holmes Hole (Storer 1839); Salem (Storer 1845, and 



