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ZOOLOGY. 



ventral fins are usually absent. They are inhabitants of warm 

 waters. The trunk-fish or box-fish, Ladophrys irigofius 

 Poey, is a West Indian fish ; one specimen has appeared at 

 Holmes' Hole, Mass. The porcupine -fish {ChilicMliys 

 turgidus Gill) and smooth pnfl'er (Tefrodon Iwvigaius Gill) 

 and the spring box-fish {Chiloinycterun geo^netrictis Kaup) 



Fig. 426.— Sun-flsh, Mola rotunda, one eighteenth natural size.— After Putnam. 



range from Cape Cod to Florida. The sun-fish [Mola ro- 

 tunda Cuvier, Fig. 435) is, like the others of the order, a 

 surface -swimmer. It is sometimes a metre or more in 

 length, weighing five hundred pounds or more. Allied 

 forms are Orlhagoriscus obloiiyus (Fig. 436) and the globe- 



