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the eyes, sloping downwards, and rounded off in 

 front into an obtuse snout, beneath which is situat- 

 ed the mouth : colour greenish white or ash, with 

 the mail marked into very large hexagons by means 

 of broad, ovate-lanceolate, blackish lines, with simi- 

 lar ones radiating from the centre of the hexagons, 

 to the number of five in each, and thus elegantly 

 dividing the whole into triangles, with finer lines or 

 margins accompanying each : naked or projecting 

 part of the body, towards the tail, marked with 

 round black spots : fins and tail reddish brown. 

 Native of the Indian and American seas. 



CUBIC TRUNK-FISH. 



Ostracion Cubicus. 0. tdragonus muticus, pimctis albis nigra 

 marginatis. 



Quadrangular-bodied Trunk-Fish, with white specks edged 

 with black. 



Ostracion cubicus. 0. tdragonus muticus, laterihus planius" 



cults. Lin. Sijst. JSfat. 

 O. quadrangular, ocellatus. Block, t. 137. 



Habit somewhat resembling that of O. triqueter^ 

 &c. but with the body square : mail marked into 

 tuberculated hexagons, each of which has a white 

 or blueish central spot, surrounded with a darker 

 border: ground colour of the whole mailed part 

 pale yellowish brown : of the naked or projecting 

 part towards the tail yellow-brown, with a few 

 (Jusky variegations : tail and fins reddish brown. 

 Native of the Indian seas, and said to be an excel- 

 lent fish for the table, and to be kept for that pur- 



