126. MALTHIDvE HALIEUT^ A. 851 



474. HALIEUTICHTIITS Poey. 

 (Poey, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 89: type Hulieutichthya reticulatua Poey.) 



Disk suborbicular, about as long as the rest of the body (including 

 caudal fin) ; forehead with a transverse bony ridge, the cavity beneath 

 it being without a tentacle; mouth rather small, inferior, the lower jaw 

 nearly semicircular; teeth fine, on jaws and palate. Dorsal and anal 

 fins with four rays each. (<iA:eun??, fisher; frtfu?, fish.) 



1314. II. ac.nleatus (Mitch.) Goode. 



Color gray, reticulated with blackish; caudal with three blackish 

 bauds. Disk longer than wide and somewhat narrowed anteriorly; 

 ridges armed with simple spiues; five bicuspid spines on each lateral 

 margin of the disk, and between them smaller, simple ones; five spines 

 forming a pentagon before interorbital area; one over each orbit, and 

 4 on a ridge behind each orbit. D. 4; A. 4. (Gill.) Cuba to Southern 

 Florida. 



(Loplnus aculeatus Mitch. Amer. Monthly Mag. ii, 3'25, 1818: HuUeuticJithys reticulatua 

 Poey MSS., Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 91; Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 ii, 109, 1879.) 



475. IIAHEUTJEA Cuvier & Valenciennes. 



(Cnvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat: Poiss. xii, 455, 1837: type Lophius stellatiis Wahl.) 

 Head very large, broad, depressed, its outline nearly circular; cleft 

 of the mouth wide, horizontal; jaws with small cardiform teeth; no 

 teeth on vomer or palatines. Skin everywhere covered with small, stel- 

 late spiues. Forehead with a transverse bony ridge, beneath which is 

 a tentacle, retractile into a cavity, the only rudiment of the spinous 

 dorsal fin; soft dorsal and anal very short, far back. Gills 2, the 

 anterior gill-arch without laminte. Branchiostegals 5; vertebrae 17. 

 Warm seas. (aAcsur^, one who fishes.) 



1315. IS. senticosa Goode. 



Reddish gray, whitish below. Disk orbicular, nearly as broad as 

 long, its outlines prolonged on each side in a strong spine, armed at tip 

 with a group of spiuelets; skin above with numerous stout, conical stel- 

 lated spines, largest posteriorly ; a marginal series of close-set spines, 

 besides 5 to 7 on each carpal peduncle; outside of the marginal spines 

 is a row of 5 depressed, knife-like spines, each with a crown of three 

 spinelets; these two rows of marginal spiues coalescing on the front 

 edge of disk forming a bristling row, pointing in different direc- 

 tions; small stellate prickles in the interspaces of the larger spines 



