
TETRODON OCELLATUS. 
Order, Apodal. 
cy er) 5 asl JuL-PoTOBARAH. 
Body variously spotted ; a large black mark at the base 


Native Name, 
Pa 
TT’. OCELLATUS. 
of the dorsal fin, surrounded by stripes and dots extending in regular eliptical 
forms toward the pectoral and caudal fins. The eye placed high and distant 
from the mouth; small blue and pink stripes intermingled with spots on either 
side of the mouth and eyes. No ventral fin. 
Branchiostegous rays none, Dorsal 10. Pectoral 14. Anals. Caudal 9. 
Tux Potobarah species is very extensive on the southern coast of 
Ceylon. The native fishers seldom agree together as to the distin- 
guishing names of more than a very few of the commonest of the 
tribe to which they are most accustomed. from a supposed resem- 
blance of the color of the belly to that of the rind of the “ Jul,” 
a fruit known to Europeans by the name originally given to it by the 
Dutch, namely, “ Wood Appel,” anglice Wood Apple, when ripe, 
the native imagination, naturally a fertile one, has affixed to this 
variety of the Tetrodon family the designation of “ Jul-Potobarah.”’ 
It seldom exceeds five or six inches in length, and is not eaten, 
being considered poisonous. 
Figure—The natural size of the Specimen. 

