— 158 
(West Indies and occasionally northwardly Gulf Stream 
to Woods Hole, Mass.; not uncommon, at Key West ; 
Jamaica; Bahamas; Ascension Isld.; Arroyo, Porto | 
Rico); Gilchr. Cat. Fish. 1902, p. 157 (S. Africa). ; 
Baltstes bellus, Walbaum, Artedi. Pisc. ii, p. 467, 1792 (West 
Indies) after Froyer. 
Chalhiosoma Velata, Swainson, Class’n Fishes ii, p. 325, 1830, 
after Vetula ; probably misprint. 
Balisies equestris, Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 31, 1854 (American 
Seas). 
Skull and dentition, .Owen;.Osteol. Cat.-1, p. 76) mesh aumuen 
forcipatus). 
Pachynathus, Swainson. 
Pachynathus, Swainson, Class’n Fishes 11, p. 326, 1839 (not 
Pachygnathus or Pachygnatha, both these names used 
at an earlier date for genera of spiders) ; Jord. & Everm. 
Fish. N. and Mid. Amer. p. 1703, 1898; Jord. & Fowler, 
Japanese Trigger-fishes, in Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxv, 1903, 
p. 254. 
Balistes (part), Gunth.-Cat; Fish. vil, p: 20191870; 
Pachynathus capistratum, Shaw. 
Le Baliste bride, Lacép. Hist. Nat. Poiss. i, pp. 335, 381, pl: 15, 
fig. 3, 1798, on a drawing by Commerson, no locality 
given ; Civ. Keene Anim: 1o17- 
Balistes, Russell, Fish. Vizagapatam, i, p. 13 and Rahte yellakah, 
He. XX, 1803 
Balistes capistratus, Shaw, Grn. Zool. v. p. 417, 1804 (after 
Lacépéde; not Pachynathus capistralus of Jordan & 
Everman, which, according to Jordan & Fowler (Jap. 
Trigger Fishes, p. 255, -1903) 1s P. verres, Gilbert and 
Starks; Lacép. ed. Pillot vi, p. 126, 1831 (not of Tilesius) ; 
Jord. & Everman. Fish. Hawaian Islds. in Bull. U.S. Fish. 
Comm. xxiii, pt. I, 1903 (1905), p. 411, and fig. (common 
about Honolulu); Jord. Tan. & Snyd. Cat. Fish. Japan, 
p. 216, 1913 (Hawai, Nukahiva; East Indies; Riukiu 
Isld.; Wakanoura). 
Balistes mitis, Bennett, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. 1, 1831, p. 169 
(Mauritius); Giinth. Cat. Fish) vii; p. 218, 1370i(Pere 
Natal ; Zanzibar ; Mauritius ; India ; China ; Observatory 
Isld.; Gonzalez Isld.) ; Day, Fish. Ind. p. 689, pl. clxxvii, 
fig. 3, 1878 (East Coast Africa; Seas of India to Malay 
Archipelago and beyond) ; Steindr. Fische Stid-arab. und 
Sokotra, p. 37, 1902 (Makalla; Gischin, etc.); Gilchr. 
Cat. Fish. 1902, p. 157 (8. Africa); Gilchr. & Thomp. 
Ann. S.A. Mus. vi, pt. 3, 1909, p. 271 (Durban, Natal). 
Balistes ambionensis, Gray & Hardw. Ill. Indian Zool. i, 1832, 
Pisces, tab. viii, fig. 2 (Amboyna). 

