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SPECKLED FILE-FISlt. 



Ifealistes Punctatus. B. supra cinereus albo pmctafus, subtus 

 albidus. 



Cinereous File-Fish speckled with whitCi beneath whitish. 

 Balistes punctatus. B. corpore punctata. ? Lin. Gmel. 

 Balis te etoile. Cepede, 



Habit that of Balistes maculatus : skin marked 

 into scale-like divisions : colour grey above, marked 

 with numerous, small w^liite spots : sides and abdo» 

 men whitish: first dorsal fm four-rayed; the first 

 ray longest and thickest : second dorsal and anal 

 streaked with whitish bars: pectoral process strong, 

 and succeeded by a sort of finny continuation: taii 

 slightly lunated. Native of the Indian seas. 



BRIDLED FILE-FISH. 



Balistes Capistratus. B. nigricans^ ore capistro albido subtus 

 duplicato. 



Blackish File-Fish^, with the mouth surrounded by a whitish 



bridle doubled beneath. 

 Baliste bride. Cepede. 



Shape subrhombic-ovate : colour dusky; mouth 

 surrounded b}^ a whitish band, produced on each 

 side the head as far as the base of the pectoral fin : 

 at some distance beneath the mouth is another 

 band, joining the side stripe just mentioned, and 

 forming a half collar beneath the chin : fms as in 

 the B. aculeatus, virescens, &c. tail lunated. Na- 

 tive of the Indian seas : slightly described by 

 Cepede from the MSS. of Commerson. 



