100 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



longest dorsal ray 1.7S; longest, anal ray 1.5; length of pectoral 2. Teeth very strong, the front ones conic; 

 dermal plates strong and rough, 29 from gill-opening to ijase of caudal; preocular groove distinct. 



Balisies ftavimarginatus Riippell, Atlas, Fische, 33, l.s.'s. Red Sea; Giinthcr, Cat., viii, 223 (Red Sea; Amboyna). 

 Balistes (Pseudobalistes) ftainmarginatus, Bleekpr, Atlas, v, ll;i, pi. ccxxiv, fig. 3. 



256. Balistapus undulatus (Mungo Park). 



Nine specimens from Bacon (no. 3374, 337.5, 3438, 3439, 3604, 40.58 to 4060, and 4123; length 4.7.5 to6..5 

 in.). 



Balistes undulatus Mungo Park, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond.,iii, 1797,37, Sumatra; Gunther,Cat., viii,226 (Red Sea; Zanzibar; 

 Moluccas; Sumatra; Amboyna; Ceram; Zebu, Pbilippices; China; Japan). 



Balistes {Balistapus) Uneatus Bleeker, Atlas, v, 118, pi. ccxxix, fig. 2. 



267. Balistapus aculeatus (Linnseus). Pvfpit. 



Nine specimens from Bacon (no. 3307. 3308, 3:KS. 33S9, 3433 to 3435, 4118 and 4119; length 3.5 to 6.5 in.), 

 and 2 from Zamboanga (no. 3364 and ;»373). 



Balistes aculeatus Linnseus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, ?J2s, India; Giinther, Cat., viii, 223 (lie de France; Island of Johanna; Zanzi- 

 bar; Moluccas; Amboyna; China Seas; Fiji; Micronesia; Seychelles; Mauritius). 

 Balistapus aculeatus, Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Oomm., xxiii, 1903 (1905), 414, pi. lxii. 



Family M0NAC.\.\TH1D.£. 

 258. Monacanthus chinensis (Bloch). 



Three .specimens from Bulan (no. 3259, 3260, and 4140; length 5 to (j.5 in.). 



Balistes chinensis Blooh, lohth., v, 24, pi. CLii, flg. 1, 1797, Brazil and China. 



.^foimcanthus chinensis, Gunther, Cat., viii, 236 (North CtLina; Pinang; Singapore; Shanghai); Bleeker, Atias, v, 125, pi. 

 ccxxii, flg. 2. 



259. Mona-oanthus macrurus Bleeker. Bungaong. 



One fine specimen from .Jolo (no. 3693; length 7.5 in.), and one from Bacon (no. 3676; length 5.55 in.). 

 These specimens show traces of dark bands at base of anal. 



JkfoTiommJtes moirttrti.s Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Iud.,xii,226, 18.57, Nias; Giinther, Cat., vm, 247, 1870. 

 PseudomoTiacanthus macrurus Bleeker, Atlas, v, 134, pi. ccx.MViii, fig. 2. 



260. Osbeckda scripta (Osbeck). Samarang. 



Three speeimriis from Jolo (no. 3313 to 3315; length 4.5 to 8.2 in.). Color in spirits, yellowish with 

 brown spots and reticulations; caudal 2.5 in length. 



These specimens- differ from typical examples of 0. scripta in having the dorsal spine very short, its length 

 being less than diameter of eye. They may represent an undescribed species, the describing of which we 

 defer until additional material can be examined. 



Balistes scriplus Osbeck, Reise nack Ostindien und China, 1, 144, 1765, China Seas. 



Balistes monoceros scriptus, Gmelm, Syst. Nat., 1463, 1788; alter Osbeck. 



Moniininihus scriptus, Giinthcr, Cat., viii, 252. 



Osheckia scripta, Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Coram., xxni, 1903 (1905) , 422, fig. 184 (Honolulu). 



Family TETRAODONTID.J:. 

 261. Lagocephalus hypselogeneion (Bleeker). 



Three specimens from Bulan (no. 4023 to 402.5; length 3.5 to 3.75 in.). 



These examples have the fold of skin on lower posterior portion of side and tail well developed; caudal 

 lunate and banded with numerous fine vertical lines; cheek with 5 subvertical bars of brown; upper half of 

 body with numerous whitish spots. These seem to resemble Day's figure in every respect. 



Tetraodon hypselogeneion Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., ni, 300, 1852, Amboyna, Wahai. 

 Tetrodon hypselogenion, Giinther, Cat., viii, 277; Day, Fishes India, 702, pi. CLXxxm, flg. 5. 



