162 

Stephanolepis cirrhifer, Jord. & Fowler, Jap. Trigger-fishes, 
Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxv, 1903, p. 264 (very common 
in shallow, sandy bays in Southern Japan). 

SuB-OrpER Ostracodermi. 
FAMILY OSTRACIIDAE. 
Ostracion (Artedi), Linnaeus. 
Ostracion,. Artedi, Genera Pisc. p. 55, 1738; limneiSysu 
Nat. roth Ed. p. 330, 1758 (many species ; first restricted 
by Swainson to four-angled forms, cubicus taken as type) ; 
Hollard, Ann: Sci! Nat. 1857, vill, p: an eb seqa os (Gjaimele 
Cat. Fish. vin, p. 255, 1870;- Jord. & Fowler, Japan. 
Trigger-fishes, in Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxv, 1903, p. 278. 
Tetvosomus, Swainson, Class’n. Fishes, ti, p. 323, 18309. 
Cibotion, Kaup. Wiegmann’s Archiv. Natur. 1855, p. 214. 
Lactona, Jordan & Fowler, t.c.p. 279, 1903. 
Ostracion cornutum, Linn. 
(Coffer-fish.) 
Willughby, Append. py 20; no..12, tab. |23) me. noses 
Ruysch, Theatr. Univ. pp..9, 10; 17, tabs 55 fess Geant am 
20; tabi o, fig. 8, 1718: Valent. De Pisce) Ambeippm scr 
A5I, 455, 461, figs. 36, 333, 344, 367; Renard, Poiss. 
Moluques, i, tab, 39) 11g. 107 ; 1, tab. 5, fig 33 stale: 
fig. 60, tab: 27, fig. 135,.1754; Seba, Thessan; taba 
figs. 8, 9 and 13, 1758. 
Crayyacion-no. 26, Kiem, Pisce, Miss. 10, p..22,, 1742. 
Ostracion sp. Gronov. Mus. 1, p. 54, no. 118, 1756, and Zoophyl. 
DP: 45; M0.<175, 1763. 
Ostracion cornutus, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x, 1, p. 331, 1758 
(India) ; (Gmel.; Linn, Syst., Nat, p. 1443, p9t7oseol 
Tchth..1, p. 105,-pl. 133, 1797; JLacep; Hist) Nat. ere 
1, Pp: 470,, 1798. (Indian~Seas),; Bly Schn. Syst. selapie 
p: 500, 1801.; Shaw, Zool. v, p. 223, pl.clxx, 18032);) sehiess 
Faun. Japon. Poiss. p. 299, pl. cxxxi, fig. 4, 1850 (Naga- 
saki), Jerdon, .Madras: Journ. Lit. Sci. 1851) pas1508 
Blkr- Verh. Bat. Gen: xxiv, 1852;- Balist: p:.22, (india 
Archipelago), and Atlas, Ichth...v7 p:.33, pl. secupimigae2 
(young), pl. cciv, fig. 3 (adult), 1865 ; Holland, (Anu: 
sc. Nat. 1857, vii, p. 158; Peters, Monatsb. Ak. Wiss. 
Berlin, 1868, p. 460 ; Gtinth. Cat. Fish. viii, p. 265 (Port 
Natal; Zanzibar; Seychelles; Indian Ocean; Pinang ; 
East Indian Archipelago; Amboyna; Siam; China ; 
Fiji Islds; New Guinea), and Challenger, Shore Fish. 
pp. 30 and 36, name only, 1880 (Botany Bay ; Ovalan) ; 
Day, Fish. Ind. p. 697, pl. clxxvi, fig. 4, 1878 (Red Sea ; 
