300 A Review of American Diodantidce. 



ram). Castelnau, Mem. Poiss. t'Afr. Aust., 74, 1861. Juan. Anim. 

 Nov. Caledonie, Mem. Soc. Imp. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, 18, 1861-CJ3. ? 

 Cope, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., 480. 1870 (St. Martins, New Provi- 

 dence ; Tortugas). [Not Diodun aUnga L., which is a species Of Chilo- 

 rnycierus ] 



Le Diodon atinrja Lacepede, Poissons, II. 1-10, plate XXV, tig. 3. 1798. 



Le Diodon plumier Lacepede, Poissons, II. 1 and 10, plate III, tig, 3, 1798 

 (Martinique ; on a drawing by Plumier). 



Le Diodon holocunilie Lacepede, Poissons, II. 1798 (copied). 



Diodon brachiaius Bloch & Schneider, 513, 1801 (after Parra, tab. 29, tig. 1). 



Diodon pun daius Cuvier, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat., IV, 132, 1818. Id., Kegne 

 Animal, Ed. II, 336 (note), 1829. Bleeker, " Verb. Bat. Gen., XXIV. 

 Blootk. Visch., 19," 1852. Bleeker, Achtste Bij. Ichth. Fauna Cele- 

 bes, 301, 1855 (Macassar). Id., Zesde Bij. Ichth. Fauna, Amboiua, 

 403, 1855. Id., Consp. "Molucc. Coquit., 21" (Amboina, Ternate, 

 Ceram, Archip. Molucc, Banda). Id., 'Elfde Bij. Visch. Celebes, 

 4" (name only). Id., Zez. Bij. Visch. Sumatra (Lampony). Id., 

 Reschrij. Visch. Amboina, 8, 23 (name only).. Id., " Bij. Visch. 

 Amboina, 28" (name only) Id., Tweede Bij. Ichth. Fauna Batoe, 

 4 (name only, Bato8). 



Diodon echinus " Kafinesque." Bonaparte. Cat. Met, Pise. Eur., 87. 1846 

 (Mediterranean Sea, accidental). 



Diodon pilos us DeKay, Nat. Hist. New York. 326, plate LV, tig. 180, 1842 

 (New York). [Young ; perhaps not Diodon pilosus Mitchill.] 



Diodon maculatus var. J, Glinther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., VIII. 307, 1870 

 (East Indian Arch.. Amboina . 



Habitat. — All warm seas. 



(b. var. ? HoL ACANTHUS.) 



Ch'ayracion, Nos. 9 and 15, Klein, Historia Pise, 19 and 20 tab. 3, fig. 6. 



1740. 

 Ostracion oblongus holacanthus Artedi, Genera 60, No. 20 ; Sueci. Desc. Spec. 



Pise, 86, No. 22, 1738. 

 Diodon holacanlhus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 335.1758 (India ; based on 



Artedi). Gmelin, Linnaeus, 1451, 1788 (American Seas aud Good 



Hope). 

 Diodon aiinga var. holacanthus Walbaum, Artedi Pise, 598, 1792 (copied). 

 Diodon hy sir ix, var. .#, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., Ed, XII, 413,1766 (Cape Good 



Hope). 

 ?Diodon pilosus Mitchill, Fish. New York, 471. plate VI, fig. 4, 1814 (New 



York). Cuvier, Regne Animal. 337 (note), 1829 (very young \ 

 ?Trichodiodon pilosus Glinther, Cat. Fish. Brit, Mus., VIII, 316, 1870 (co- 

 pied). Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. N. Am., 862,1883 (copied). 



Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. Am., 141, 1885 (name only). 



