BALISTES. 
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Balistes medinilla, Quay Gaim. Voy. Ur an, Poiss. pi. 46. f. 2 (not good) . 
erythropteron, Less. Voy. Coqu. Poiss. pi. 10. f. 3. 
cinctus, Bleek. Act. Soc. Scient. Indo-Nederl. ii. Amb. p. 96. 
Balistes (Balistapus) cinctus, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. v. pi. 228. f. 1, and Ned. Tydschr. Dierk. iii. 1865, 
p. 24. 
Mozambique. Bed Sea. Indian Ocean and Archipelago . China. Japan. Polynesia. 
462. Balistes stellatus. [200.] 
Balistes stellatus, La cep. i. p. 350, t. 15. f. 1. 
stellaris, Bl. Schn. p. 476. 
brasiliensis, Bl. Schn. p. 470. 
? Russell, pp. 22, 23. 
Balistes vacliellii, Richards. Zool. Voy. Sulph. Fish. p. 129. 
plialliatus, Richards. Ichth. China. 
Leiurus stellatus, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. v. pi. 215, and Ned. Tydschr. Dierk. iii. 1865, p. 21. 
Zanzibar. Mauritius. Mozambique. Bed Sea. Indian Ocean and Archipelago, 
New Ireland. 
463. Balistes viridescens. [238.] 
Balistes aculeatus major, Forsk. no. 46. 
viridescens, Lacep. i. p. 378; Bl. Schn. p. 477. 
castaneus, Richards. Ichth. Voy. Sulph. p. 126, pi. 59. figs. 5 & 6. 
Balistes ( Pseudobalistes) viridescens, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. v. t. 231. f. 2; and Ned. Tydschr. Dierk. iii. 
1865, p. 21. 
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Zanzibar. Mauritius. Bed Sea. East-Indian archipelago. 
464. Balistes niger. Plate XIX. fig. 1. [163.] 
Balistes niger, Osbeck, Reise, p. 386. 
ringens, Bl. Schn. p. 472. 
piceus, Poey. 
Meliclithys ringens, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. v. pi. 220. f. 2; and Ned. Tydschr. Dierk. iii. 1865, p. 21. 
Meeker (who follows Swainson not only in adopting this as the type of a distinct 
genus, but in the classical error involved in the formation of the name) enumerates as 
one of the generic characters the smoothness of the caudal scales. In the Zanzibar 
specimen (13 inches long) there are eight series of caudal scales provided with spines 
directed forwards, and forming very distinct keels. Bloch also represents the keels in 
his figure. 
Seychelles. Indian Ocean and Archipelago. China. Pacific. Havanna. 
