4SG DEEP-SEA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC BASIN. 



Newfoundland. The museum of the Essex Institute has a specimen about 4 inches in length, 

 taken on the Banks of Newfoundland in 1856, by L. J.Johnson. This is probably the most 

 northern recorded occurrence of the species in the western Atlantic, except an unconfirmed 

 statement by Pennant of its appearance in Hudson's Bay. 



It frequents the moderate depths along the coast from Nova Scotia to Virginia and at 

 greater depth as far south as the Antilles. The Blake obtained it off Barbados at a depth 

 of 209 fathoms (station IV), and at 84 fathoms in latitude 23° 13', longitude 89° 10' (station 



CCLVII). 



The Fish Hawk trawled it at station 826. Another specimen (No. 20170), 20 centi- 

 meters long, containing immature ova, was taken at station 804, at a depth of 365 fathoms; 

 also a large specimen with immature ova (No. 26098), from station 870, 120 fathoms; and a 

 smaller one, perhaps two years old (No. 26070), from station 878, 142A fathoms. 



The AUmtrasix obtained young individuals at station 2025 and station 2421. 



Giinther has admitted it to the list of abyssal forms on the authority of the observations 

 of American naturalists. It has since been announced that the Talisman obtained it at 

 400 to 700 meters (stations ex, cxi, cxin a, cxxm) about the A/ores and Cape Verdes. 



Family ANTENN ARIID^E. 



Antennariida;, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nut. Soi., Phila., 18i>:>. p. 89.— Arrangement, Families of Fishes, - (No. 131); 

 Proc. U. S. N. M.. i. Ists. pp. 215, 223.-»Jordan a Gilbert, Bull, xvi, r. s. \. M., si:.. 



Pediculates with head and body more or less compressed. Mouth opening upwards, 

 vertical or very oblique; jaws with cardiform teeth, (lill openings in or behind the lower 

 axils of the pectorals small and porelike. No pseudobranchiaj. Skin naked, smooth, or 

 prickly. Pectoral members distinctly geniculated. Pseudobrachia long, with 3 actinosts. 

 Ventral tins well developed, jugular, approximated. Spinous dorsal of 1 to 3 separated 

 tentacle like spines; soft dorsal, larger than anal. Pyloric cceca none. 



PTEROPHRYNE, Gill. 



Pterophryne, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. Pfiila., w, lsi;;;, 90; I'm,', r. s. Nat. Mus., (, ls?s, 216. 

 Pterophrynoides, Gill, Proc. t . s. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 216 (name proposed as an alternate I'm' Pterophryne, if 

 tin/ Latter is too near to Pterophrynua). 



Antennariids with skin naked and sn th; caudal peduncle free; mouth oblique; 



dorsal spines completely exserted; soft dorsal and anal expanded vertically; pectorals and 



wrists slender, and ventrals elongated. 



PTEROPHRYNE HISTRIO, (Lixx.irs), Gill. 



l.o)ilti<t* histrio, Linn J3 us Syst. Nat., ed. \n. 1766, i, 493. 



Pterophryne histrio, Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 90; Proc. I'. S. Nat. Mus.. i. ls?s. 216 (with full 



synonymy). 

 Antennarius marmoratus. — GOnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., m, 187. 



A description of this species in its protean manifestations of form and color seems 

 scarcely necessary here, since its characters are well known to every tyro in ichthyology. 



The specimens before us are all apparently of the type referred to by Cinther under 

 the variety E. (Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., in, p. 187), the Antennarius marmoratus of Cuvier 

 and Valenciennes. 



A specimen was obtained by the U. S. Coast Survey steamer Blake off St. Vincent, in 

 the West Indies (station m), at a depth of 404 fathoms, and another by the U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission steamer Albatross, at the surface, near station 2108. There is, of course, no positive 

 evidence that the Blake's specimen actually came from the bottom. 



ANTENNARIUS, Cuvier. 



Antennarius, Cuvier, Rrgne Anin.al. ed. I, 1*17, n, 310 (wrongly credited to Commerson, xrlin wasnot bino- 

 mial).— Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., m. 183.— Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., \\. 1863, 90. 

 Cheironectes, Cuvier, Regne Animal, ed. 2, 1829, ii, 252, note (Preoccupied in Mammalogy, Dliger, 1811). 



Antennariids having body covered with spines generally forked ; caudal peduncle free ; 

 mouth moderate, oblique ; pectorals and wrists widened; ventrals short; anal oblong. 



