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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Family XLII. MONACANTHIILF. 
200. Cantherines sandwichensis (Quoy & Gaimard). 
Color in life, uniformly black; dorsal, anal, and pectoral golden, the color mostly confined to the 
rays, the membranes being transparent; caudal rays black, membranes dusky olivaceous; dorsal 
spine black, membrane behind it olivaceous. 
My collection contains 5 specimens, from 6 to 6.5 inches in length, and there are in the collection 
made by Dr. Wood 4 examples, from 6 to 10.5 inches in length. It is used as food by the natives. 
Batistes sandwichensis Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. de l’Uranie, Zool., 21-1, 1824, Hawaiian Islands. 
Monacanthus pardalis Ruppell, Neue Wirb. Fische, 57, pi. 15, fig. 3, 1835 (March, 1838); Gunther, Cat., vm, 230, 1870 (Indian 
and Pacific oceans). 
Cantherines nasutus Swainson, Nat. Hist. Fishes, etc., n, 327, 1839, substitute for B. sandwichiensis Quoy & Gaimard. 
Liomonacanthus pardalis Bleeker, Atlas Ichthy., v, 1865, 136, pi. 130, fig. 7. 
Cantherines carolse Jordan & McGregor, Kept. U. S. Fish Comm, for 1898, 281, pi. 6, Socorro Island. 
Cantherines sandwichensis, Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 514 (Hawaiian Islands). 
201. Stephanolepis spilosomus (Lay & Bennett). 
Color in life, face bluish, body olivaceous; face and cheeks with dark wavy lines; sides of body 
covered with dark spots as large as pupil; membrane behind dorsal spine orange; soft dorsal and anal 
with many very narrow longitudinal yellow lines alternating with light blue; caudal very brilliant, its 
ground color yellow, the distal margin orange, within which is a broad transverse band of black; 
remainder of fin with transverse rows of black dots. My collection contains fifteen specimens from 
2.36 to 5.14 inches in length, taken on the reef at Honolulu, where it is abundant in the coral; and 
five, 3.25 to 4 inches in length, were taken by the Albatross in 1896. 
Monacanthus spilosoma Lay& Bennett, Zoology, Capt. Beechey’s Voyage, in H. M. S. Blossom, 70, pi. 22, fig. 1, 1839, Hawaiian 
Islands; Gunther, Cat., vm, 243, 1870 (Sandwich Islands); Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 514 (Hawaiian 
Islands). 
202. Osbeckia scripta (Osbeck). 
One specimen, a skin 23 inches in length, was obtained by Jordan & Snyder in 1900 at Honolulu. 
This species has been taken by Jordan & Evermann, Check-List of Fishes of North America, page 
424, as the type of the new subgenus Osbeckia. This seems to be its first record from the Hawaiian 
Islands. 
Batistes scriptus Osbeck, Inter. Chin., I, 144, 1757, China, 
Aleutera scripta, Jordan A Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Araer, ii, 1719, 1898. 
Family XLIII. TETRA0D0NT1 1>.£. 
203. Tetraodon hispidus (Linnaeus). 
Color in life varies considerably. Upper parts (field No. 302) golden olive, lower parts white; 
bluish white spots over tip of head and back, becoming smaller on caudal peduncle and caudal fin; 2 
bluish white concentric rings around eye; 1 distinct and 1 or 2 other not so distinct rings of white 
around base of pectoral fin, the white bands with olive interspaces; base of pectoral and region below 
black; some black blotches anterior to the lower of these; dorsal dusky yellow; pectoral bright yellow; 
anal orange-yellow; caudal dusky, membranes yellowish with bluish white spots. 
Three specimens of this species were obtained at Honolulu, the longest being 9.7 inches. There 
is a great range in the distinctness of the markings and in the amount of roughness given the skin by 
the spines. It is offered for sale as food in the market at Honolulu, but is considered very poisonous 
if not cooked in a certain manner. 
? Tetraodon hispidus Linnseus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, I, 333, 1758, India. 
Tetraodon perspicillaris Riippell, Atlas, Reise Nord Africa, 63, 1823. Red Sea. 
Tetrodon hispidus, Gunther, Cat,, vm, 297, 1870. 
Tetrodon implutus, Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 7, 1877, 56 (Honolulu). 
Oroides erethizon Jordan &.Gilbert, Proc. IT. S. Nat, Mus. 1882, 631, Panama. (Type, No. 29679, U. S. N. M.) 
204. Ovoides latifrons Jenkins. 
One specimen, 9.4 inches in length, was obtained. 
Ovoides latifrons Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm, for 1899 (June 8, 1901), 398, fig. 10, Honolulu. (Type, No. 49696, U. S.N. M. 
Coll. O. P. Jenkins.) 
