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BLUE-STREAKED FILE-FISH. 



Balistes liturosus. B. elongatus niger, lituris cceruleis^ spina 

 capitis longissima^ pinnis albis, caudoe fascia ccerulea. 



Elongated black File-Fish, with blue streaks, very long spine 

 over the head, and white fins^ with a blue bar across the 

 tail. 



Length nearly two feet : habit long and slender: 

 colour jet-black, with numerous, abrupt, blue 

 streaks in an obliquely longitudinal direction : fins 

 and tail white ; a blue bar across the latter : under 

 jaw longer than the upper: over the eyes a very 

 long, slender, black spine : along each side of the 

 head, from the eyes to the mouth, a narrow white 

 stripe : eyes yellow. Native of the Indian seas : 

 observed about the coasts of Otaheitee by Captain 

 G. Tobin. 



SMOOTH FILE-FISH. 



Balistes Lsevis. B. subjlavescens, antice fasciis longitudinalihus, 



postice transversis subcceruleis. 

 Yellowish File-Fish, with longitudinal blueish bands on the 



fore-part, and transverse on the hind-part. 

 Balistes corpore laevi. Bloch. t, 414, 



Length about twelve inches : habit rather length- 

 ened: skin smooth: colour pale yellowish brown, 

 marked on the fore-parts by four or five longitudinal 

 pale-blue stripes reaching to the middle of the body, 

 and on the hind by several transverse stripes of 

 similar colour: on the stripes, as well as on the 

 other parts of the skin, are several small black spots; 



