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SPENGLER*S TETRODON. 



Tetrodon Spengleri. T. suhfuscuSf maculis nigricantibus, corpore 

 cirrhato . 



-Brownish Tetrodon, with blackish spots, and cirrhated body, 

 Tetrodon Spengleri. 2\ cirris plurimis. Block, t. J 44. 



Shape lengthened: colour brown ^-bove, varied 

 with roundish deep-brown spots, largest on the 

 sides : abdomen tumid, ^hitish, and thickly beset 

 with small spines : about the upper parts of the 

 body are dispersed several short cirrhi or soft pro- 

 cesses : fms as in the rest of the genus. Native of 

 the Indian seas, growing to the length of ten or 

 twelve inches. 



HONKENIAN TETRODON. 



Teti'odon Honkenii, T.fuscus albido nebulosus, maxilla inferiore 

 longiore. 



Brown Tetrodon, with whitish clouds, and lower jaw longer 



than the upper. 

 Tetrodon Honkenii. T. maxilla inferiore longiore. Block, 



143. 



Length eight or ten inches : general appearance 

 that of T. Spengleri : colour brown above, with 

 small whitish clouds or spots : beneath whitish 

 with numerous small spines, resembling a kind of 

 pointed tubercles : native of the Indian seas : 

 named by Dr. Bioch from a Mr. Honkeney, by 

 whom it was sent from India to that author. 



