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simple with a pair of lateral openings.” ISTine or ten sorts are 
known from all the seas situated between the tropics ; they 
have the general form of Diodon. 
CHILOMTCTEETTS JACtTLIEEBUS. 
Diodon Jaculiferus, Cus. Mem. Mus., vol. vii., p. 3. 
Chilomycterus Jaculiferus, Gunther, Gatal., vol. viii.,p, 313. 
(The Globe.') 
My specimen agrees very well with Dr. Grunther’s excellent 
description of this sort, but the spines are all about of equal 
length, and rather short ; the posterior, if any, being the longest. 
I find the dorsal large, formed of sixteen rays ; the caudal 
rounded posteriorly, of nine rays ; the anal is much smaller than 
the dorsal, but is not complete in my specimen, and I only see the 
roots of six rays ; the pectorals have twenty rays. 
The colour is of a light green on the upper part, and white 
below ; all the spines are white, but those of the back have a 
black rounded spot at their base ; the fins are ,of a yellowish 
green, with the end of the dorsal and caudal darker ; the 
anal is white ; the eye was, on the living specimen, of a dark 
brown, with an internal yellow circle. This fish, when inflated, 
forms a perfect globe. 
The specimen is four and a-half inches long. Drom Hobson’s 
Bay The air-bladder is large, rounded, and strongly bifur- 
cated. 
Group MOLINA. 
Body compressed, very short, not extensible by air ; tail extremely 
short, truncate, vertical; Jins conjluent ; no pelvic bone-, air- 
bladder absent. 
OETHAaOEISCUS. 
The Bim-jish is sometimes found on the Victorian coast, and is 
considered by Dr. Gunther and Professor M‘Ooy as belonging to 
the European sort. The first also includes with Orthagoriscus 
Mola the sort described by me at the Cape of Good Hope under the 
name of Pedalion Oapensis. He states that the remarkable nose- 
