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Arotliron laterna, Bleeker, Act. Soc.. Sci. Inrl. Neerl.,VI, 1859, 200 (Sumatra; Solor; Timor; Batzan; Amboyna; Banda). 
Crayracion laterna , Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., V, 71, pi. 205, fig. 3, 1865. 
Crayraeionimplutus, Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., V, 71, 1865 (Padang, Siboga, Sumatra; Cocos; Lawajong, Solar; Kupang, Timor; 
Labuha, Batjan; Amboyna; Lonthoir, Banda). 
Tetrodon hispklus, Gunther, Cat., VIII, 297, 1870 (Red Sea; Zanzibar; Mozambique; Port Natal; Ceylon, East Indian 
Archipelago; Amboyna; Australia, and Aneityum). 
Ovoides erethizon Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 631, Panama. 
? Tetraodon stellalus, Eydoux & Souleyet, Voy. Bonite, I, 212, pi. 10, fig. 2, 1841 (Sandwich Islands). 
351. Tetraodon lacrymatus (Cuvier). Fig. 186. 
Head 2.7; depth 2.6; eye 6.5; snout 2; preorbital 2.8; interorbital 2.3 in head, 6.5 in body; D. 10; 
A. 12; P. 19. 
Body short and stout; head short and broad; snout short; teeth in each jaw in 2 strong convex 
plates, produced and beak -like at line of union; lips thin, not covering teeth completely; interorbital 
space broad and flat, the profile from tip of snout to occiput slightly concave; orbital rim prominent; 
gill-opening nearly vertical, its length half the distance from tip of snout to middle of pupil; nostril a 
short closed bifid tube. Fins broad; dorsal posterior, distance of base of anterior ray from base of 
caudal 1.5 in head, or 4 in body, length of base of fin 1.6 in length of fin, whose free edge is evenly 
rounded; caudal rounded, its length 2 in head; anal similar to dorsal, posterior to it, its base longer, 
Fig. 186. — Tetraodon lacrymatus (Cuvier). Type of Ovoides latifrons. 
its height about the same; pectoral broad, evenly rounded, its length 2.6 in head, its depth 1.2 in its 
length. Body more or less covered with small, simple, sette-like spines, mostly embedded in the skin, 
only the tips projecting, most of them inclined backward; snout, cheeks, caudal peduncle, base of dorsal, 
caudal and anal fins, chin, and a broad stripe along middle of side, and region about pectoral naked. 
Color in life (No. 03409, 13 inches long, obtained at Honolulu, July 7), raw umber, streaked with 
mottling in black, covered everywhere with small white spots; belly covered also with small white 
prominences, the general tone grayish white; edge of dorsal, anal, and pectoral grayish white, yel- 
lowish behind pectoral. 
Color of same specimen in alcohol, rich brownish black, profusely and quite uniformly covered 
with small roundish blue-v'hite spots, varying in size from very small, mere specks, to nearly as large 
as pupil, those in axil, caudal peduncle, and caudal largest, the large ones on caudal being in the 
second and fourth fifths of the depth; set* white, especially on belly; all the fins with numerous 
roundish white spots, all except the caudal narrowly edged with white. 
This species is close to T. setosus Smith, from the Pacific coast of Mexico, from which it differs 
chiefly in the smaller size of the spots. It is known to us from the type of the nominal species Ovoides 
