442 LINEATED TETRODON. 



twelve inches, and is of a thick form in front, the 

 hinder parts tapering suddenly towards the tail: 

 the colour is yellowish brown above, and whitish 

 with a slight silvery cast beneath : across the back 

 are several short black or dark-brown bars of differ- 

 ent sizes, and over the sides are dispersed many 

 round blackish spots : the sides and abdomen are 

 beset with very numerous, short, radiated spines : 

 the fins are small ; the dorsal and anal placed oppo- 

 site each other, and the tail slightly rounded. This 

 species is a native of the Indian and American 

 seas, but occasionally strays into the northern 

 latitudes, and has been taken, according to Mr. 

 Pennant, about the British coasts, viz. near Pen- 

 zance in Cornwall. It has the power of inflating 

 the abdomen to a vast size ; the Linnaean title 

 seems to have been given from a fancied resem- 

 blance which the fore-part of the head bears to 

 that of a hare. 



LINEATED TETRODON. 



Tetrodon Lineatus. T, ahdomine fasciis longitudinaiihns fmciH 

 variato, 



Tetrodon with the abdomen variegated by longitudinal brown 

 bands. 



Tetrodon lineatus. T, fasciis longitudinalibus fuscis pallidisque. 

 Lin, Syst. Nat. 



Tetrodon ventre prominente, fronte elevata. Block, t. 141. 



Length ten or twelve inches: shape somewhat 

 square, but when inflated resembling that of the 

 T. lagocephalus : whole body beset with numerous 



