PLATE LXVI. 
and the back and sides marked with conspicuous stripes and spots 
of black ; the abdominal spines are small, inclining, and diverging 
at the base into three rays. 
From the above remarks it will be obvious that a considerable 
degree of confusion has heretofore prevailed respecting the before- 
mentioned fishes. The Globe fish of our seas has not been ex- 
plicitly described by any author, with the exception of Pennant : and 
it may be even doubted whether any other author has hitherto ob- 
served it. To obviate further error, we therefore wish to name it 
Tetrodcn Stellatus, the Stellated Globe-fish, Mr. Pennant not having 
given it any Latin specific name ; and that of Globe Diodon, the 
English one adopted by him being inadmissible, for it is a Te- 
trodon, and not a Diodon of Linnaeus. 
The dorsal fin in the specimen figured in the annexed plate con- 
tains eleven rays : pectoral fourteen ; anal ten ; and caudal six. 
