248 ORDER ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



We might distinguish those species in which the 

 second and third rays are united into a fin, which is 

 sometimes even joined to the second dorsal ! . 



Malt he, Cuv. 



The head excessively elongated, and flattened 

 chiefly by the projection and volume of the suboper- 

 culum ; the eyes forwards ; the snout salient like a 

 small horn ; the mouth beneath the snout moderate 

 and protractile ; the branchiae supported by six or 

 seven rays, and opening on the dorsal surface by a 

 hole above each pectoral ; a single, small, and soft 

 dorsal ; the body studded with osseous tubercles, with 

 cirri the whole length of its sides ; but there are no 

 free rays on the head. The cceca and natatory 

 bladder are wanting 2 . 



cit. I. vi. 9. Ch. marmoratus ; or L. Hist. marm. Bl., Schn. 142, 

 Klein. Misc., III. iii. 4 ; or L. raninus, Tiles. Mem. Nat. Mosc. II. 

 xvi. Ch. hispidus, BL, Schn. 143, Mem. Mus. III. xvii. 2. Ch. 

 scaler, ib. xiv. 2 ; or Guaperva, Marcgr. 150, (but not the figure). 

 L. Mstr'/o, Bl. pi. cxi. Ch. biocellatus, Cuv., Mem. Mus. III. xvii. 

 3. Ch. ocellatus ; or L. histr. ocel. Bl. Schn. 143, Parra. i. Ch. 

 variegatus ; or L. cheronccfe, Lacep. I. xiv. 2 ; or L. pictus, Shaw, 

 Zool. V. part II. pi. clxv. ' Ch. furcipilus, Cuv., Mem. Mus. 

 III. xvii. 1. Laet. Ind. Occ. 574, a figure given for the guaperva, 

 Marcgr. 150. Ch. nummifer, Cuv., Mem. Mus. xvii. 4. Ch. Com- 

 mersonii, Cuv., Lacep. X. xiv. 3, and very badly, Ren. I. xliii. 212. 

 Ch. tuberosus, Cuv. 



1 Ch. punctatus, Cuv., Mem. Mus. III. xviii. ; and Lacep., Ann., 

 Mus. IV. lv. 3. Ch. unipinnis, Cuv., Mem. Mus. III. xviii. 3, 

 Lacep., Ann., Mus. III. xviii. 4. 



' Lophius oespettilio, L., Bl. 1 10. Malik, nasuta, Cuv., Seb. 



