A Review of American Diodontidm. 301 



Diodon spinosb<simus Cuvier, Mem. Mus., IV, 134. 1818. Id., R^gne Ani- 

 mal, 336 (note), 1829. Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., VIII, 307, 

 1870 (Cape Good Hope ; Siam ; and type of D melanopsis Kaup.). 



Diodon melanopsis Kaup., Wiegm. Arch., 1855, 228. 



Paradiodon quadrimacMlatus Bleeker, "Atl. Iehtli., Gymnod., plate 8, rig. 2," 

 1865. 



Diodon maculates var. a, Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., VIII, 307, 1870 (St. 

 Croix ; Jamaica ; Panama ; South America ; Sandwich Is. ; China ; 

 Sooloo Sea ; Indian Ocean). 



Diodon maculalus Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, 453 (La 

 Paz), and 1881, 70 (La Paz). 



Diodon Uturosus Jordan, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1884, 46 (Diodon macu- 

 laius var. a Gunther). 



Habitat. AW warm seas, its range apparently co-extensive with 

 that of D. hystrix. 



The following references belong apparently chiefly, to Diodon 

 holacunthus. but in some cases the young of D. hystrix is more 

 or less confused with the former. 



Erizo Guavabana Parra. Desc. Dif. Piezas Hist. Nat. Cuba, 62, tab. 29, fig. 

 2. 1787 (Havana). 



Le Diodon iachele Lacepede, Poissons. II, 13, 1798 (New Cytherea). 



Diodon atinga Turton, Ed. Linnaeus Syst. Nat., 893, 1806 (compiled). 



Diodon Uturosus Shaw, "Gen. Zool.. V, pi. 2. 436," 1804 (after Diodon tacheie 

 Lacepede). Jordan & Gilbert. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 377 (Pa- 

 nama). Bean, Collection Fish. Internat. Fish. Exh. London, 42, 1883 

 v Garden Key . Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 150 (Florida 

 Keys). Bean & Diesel, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 151 (name only). 

 Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. Am.. 141, 1885 (name only). Id., Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1885, 393 (Lower California). 



Diodon novemmacnlatvs Cuvier, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat., IV, 136, plate 6, 1818. 

 Id., Regne Animal. Ed. II, 336 (note), 1829. Brevoort, Fish Japan, 

 285, 1850. Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind., Ill, 567, 1852. Id., Con. 

 Spec. Mol. Hue. Cogn., 21 (Amboina). Id., Zesde Bij. Ichth. Fauna 

 (Amboina), 403, 1855. 



Paradioion novemmaculaius Bleeker, " Atl. Ichth., V, 57, plate 206," 1865. 

 Id., Poissons du Japan, 26, 1879. 



Diodon sexmaculatus Cuvier, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat,, IV, 136, plate 7, 1818. 

 Id., Regne Animal, 336 (note). Kaup, "Arch. Naturgesch., XXI, 

 I, 229," 1855. Bleeker, Enum. Pise. Arch. Ind., 203. 1859. (Japan; 

 Sandwich Is. ; Hindostan ; Mauritius ; Good Hope). Gilnther, Fish. 

 Central Am., 396, 1869 (Panama). 



