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Balistes frenatus, Commerson apud Lacep. (Batiste bride), i. p. 335 et 

 381. pi. 15. f.3; Icon. Reeves, 229; Harclw. Cart. 23; Rich. Ichth. of 

 Sulph. &c, p. 129. pi. 62. f. 1. 



Hab. China seas. Canton. 



Balistes vachellii, Richardson, Ichth. of Sulph. Voy. p. 129. 



A specimen exists in the collection of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, presented by 

 the Rev. George Vachell. 



Hab. Sea of China. Canton. 



Balistes albo-caudatus, Commerson apud Lacep. i. p. 336 et 382. pi. 18. 

 f. 2 (Batiste arme). Ruppell, Neue Wirlb. pi. 16. f . 1 ; Icon. Reeves, 

 265 ; Hardw. Cart. 21 & 23. Bat. subarmatus, Gray, Hardw. 111. Ind. 

 Zool. pi. 90. f. 3 ? 

 Hab. Sea of China (Reeves). Indian ocean (Hardw.). Red sea (RUpp.). 



Balistes conspicillum, Bl. Schn. 474. Le Batiste Americain, Lacep. 

 i. p. 377. pi. 16. f. 2 ; Quoy et Gaim., Uranie, pi. . f . 1 ; Less, et Gam. 

 Voy. de la Coquille, pi. 9 ; Icon. Reeves, 285 ; Hardw. Cart. 20. 

 Hab. Sea of China. Malay archipelago. Indian ocean. Mauritius and sea of Madagascar. 



Balistes ringens, Bl. 152. f. 2. Le Batiste silonne', Lacep. i. p. 370. pi. 18. 

 f. 1. B. nigra (ringens, Lin.), Osbeck, Voy. Eng.tr. ii. p. 93. B.niger, 

 Bl. Schn. 471. 



Sir Edward Belcher brought a specimen from China. 



Hab. Sea of China. Sumatra. Indian ocean. Isle of Ascension (Osbeck). 



Monacanthus chinensis, Osbeck (Batistes), Voy. i. p. 177, Eng. tr. ; 

 Bl. 152. f. 1 ; Icon. Reeves, 89 ; Hardw. Cart. 31 (etab India, 28?). Chi- 

 nese name, Hihpe yang, " Black-skinned goat" (Birch) ; " Black-skinned 

 sheep " (Reeves) ; Hah pe yeang (Bridgem. 50). 

 Specimens exist in the British Museum and Chinese collection at Hyde Park. 

 Hab. Sea of China (Reeves). Indian ocean (Hardw.). Australia (Ichth. of Er. and Terr.). 



Monacanthus bifilamentosus, Lesson, Voy. de la Coq. p. 109. pi. 8 ; 



Icon. Reeves, 266 ; Hardw. Cart. 32. 



A specimen presented by Mr. Reeves, obtained at Canton, is preserved in the British 

 Museum. 



Hab. Seas of China and the Moluccas. 



Monacanthus japonicus, "Tilesius (Batistes), Mem.de Moscou, ii.pl. 13;" 

 Cuv. Regn. An. ii. p. 373 ; Icon. Reeves, 275 ; Hardw. Cart. 33. Tabaduck, 

 Draw, by Dep. Ass.Comm.Gen.Neill, of King George's Sound fish, No. 51, 

 Br. Mus. 



Not having access to the Memoirs of the Natural History Society of Moscow at present, 

 the identity of Tilesius's fish with specimens brought by Sir Edward Belcher from the sea 

 of China, and with others from South-west Australia, and also with the drawings above 

 quoted, is to be considered simply as a conjecture. 



Hab. Seas of China. Japan and Australia. 



Monacanthus lineolatus, Richardson. Bad. A. 34; C. 12; P. 13. 



A specimen of this fish was sent from Hong Kong to Haslar Museum by Surgeon R. A. 

 Bankier, of the Royal Navy. It has lost the dorsal fin by friction, but is otherwise in good 

 condition. Its height at the tip of the pelvic spine is equal to half its total length, and its 

 greatest thickness is rather less than one-third of the height. The profile is an irregular 

 oval, beyond which the short trunk of the tail projects not more than a tenth of the whole 

 length. The face ascends in a straight line to the dorsal spine, whose height is equal to one 

 quarter of the height of the body. The space between this spine and the second dorsal, cor- 

 responding in length to the spine, is horizontal and somewhat depressed. The pelvic bone is 

 not capable of being stretched much out of the oval, and the membrane behind it is thin, not 

 capable of lateral distension, and without rays, but having the small scales narrower and far- 

 ther apart than on the body, and thus admitting of a slight folding-up. The edge of the 



