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PAPILLOSE FILE-FISH. 



rough with very small prickles, those on the abdo- 

 men giving it a kind of downy appearance. Na- 

 tive of the Indian seas. 



PAPILLOSE FILE-FISH. 



Balistes Papillosus. B. pinna dorsali anteriore biradiata, corpore 



papilloso. Lin. Syst. Nat. 

 File-Fish with two spines above the head^ and body covered 



by granular papillae. 

 Balistes granulatus. B. pinna dorsali anteriore hiradiata, corpore 



granoso. White's Journ. of Voy. to N. S. W.p. 254. 



Length about four inches : colour grey : whole 

 body roughened by minute papilhe or granules : 

 above the head a very strong and thick serrated 

 spine, with a smaller and shorter placed imme- 

 diately behind it : pectoral fins lanceolate : dorsal 

 and anal rather shallow, and placed opposite : vent- 

 ral spines short and rough : tail slightly rounded. 

 Native of the Indian and American seas : observed 

 about the coasts of New Holland. 



