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coats of the stomach are perceptibly thicker than those of the intestines, 

 which form a narrow cylinder without ccecopyloric appendages or cir- 

 cumvolutions, and widen a little towards the anus. The liver is linear, 

 consisting of a single lobe, but subdivided by numerous small trans- 

 verse incisions ; it accompanies the stomach and terminates a little 

 behind the pylorus. 



ORDO PLECTOGNATHI 



FAM. BALISTISID^E. 



Gen. Balistes, ([Artedi] Linne, 1748) Cuvier, 1817. 



Body compressed ; in each jaw a single series of eight, generally 

 trenchant, teeth ; skin scaly or granulated, but not exactly osseous ; 

 anterior dorsal composed of one or more spines, articulated with a pe- 

 culiar bone, fixed to the skull and furrowed to receive the spines ; pos- 

 terior dorsal soft, long, opposite to a nearly similar anal ; ventrals none, 

 but a pelvic bone suspended to those of the shoulder. 



Balistes conspicillum, Bloch-Schneider. 



Renard: I. 15, Fig. 88. 



Baliste americain, Lacepede, I. 377, PI. 16. Fig. 2. 



Balistes conspicillum, Bloch-Schneider, 474. 



Balistes bicolor, Shaw, V. 407, PI. 168. 



Lesson et Garnot : Voy. de la Coquille, PI. 9. 



Quoy et Gaimard : Uranie, PI. Fig. 1. 



Balistes conspicillum, Cuv. R. A. II. 373, note. 



Rhinacanthus conspicillum, Swainson, II. 325. 



Balistes conspicillum, Richardson: Report, 1845, 201. 



Balistes conspicillum, Temm. et Schl. Fauna Japon. Pisces, Tab. 



CXXIX. Fig. 1. (Adult.) 



(Young, from 1 to 3 inch, in length.) Head above, back and upper 

 half of the sides pale rust-coloured or reddish brown, with more or less 

 distinct snuff-coloured, short, longitudinally undulating lines or spots ; 

 lower half of sides, throat and abdomen impure brownish white with 

 pale brown patches ; in some on the sides of the head and body a few 



