DISCUSSION OF SPECIES AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION. 



Ml V-l l.'l MINTS. 



4'J ( J 



rum nt number of B] imen.. 



Locality 



Labrador. 



31908. 

 Pensacola. Fla. 



Length to origin of middle can 



d;tl ravs 



Bod; 



Height ;ii centrals 



Least height <>t tail 



!.i ngtb of oaadal pedonole. 

 II. ad: 



Greatest [engtb 



Height «it' rostra! groove . . . 



Will ili of rostral groove. 



I rreatest w idtb 



Width "I Interorbit&l area 



Length of Bnont, inclnding 

 tubercle 



Length of nasal tubercle . . 



Width of nasal tnheri li . 



Length ut maxillary 



Li ngth <it mandible 



Distance between anterior 

 orbital angles 



Diameter oieye 



1 ini sal 



Distance from snout 



Willi 



III. t.l'S 



lOOtha 



of 

 length. 



4U 

 15 



70 



n 



- 



li! 



5 



*i 



V. 



15 



13 



*17 

 14 



in 



9 

 34 



17 



::. 7 

 5 

 60 

 8 



3 



2.8 

 2. 8 

 9 



10.5 

 8.7 



04 



Mill] 



meters. 



1001 ha 



of 

 lengl l 



15 

 If, 

 56 



HO 



7 



7 

 04 

 12 





 J* 



n 



14 

 15 



tin 



13 



•-•li. 5 

 8 - 

 31 



40.8 

 4 

 4 



3.6 



2.5 

 2.5 

 8 

 8.8 



9.3 



7.3 



i torrent number of Bpecimen 

 Locality 



Labrador. 



\liili- 

 meters. 



Dorsal— Continued. 



Length of base 



Height :it Becond ray 



Anal: 



Distance from Bnont 133 



Length of base ;7 



Longest ray ca. 20 



Uandal: 



Length of middle rays 39 



Length of externa] rays... 32 



Pectoral: 



Distance from snout 94 



Length 



Ventral: 



Distance from snout 



Length 



Distance of vent from sin ui 



Dorsal 



Anal 



Pectoral 



Ventral 



i". i) 



56 



.a :in 



ninths 



of 

 length. 



4.3 



4.3 



12.:. 



21 



20 



58 



20 



:t4. 8 

 18.6 



11908 



■i:i 1 l.i 



Milli- 

 meters. 



I ninths 

 ol 



length. 



139 



i 

 i .i 25 



42 

 35 



'.17 



:jh 



01 

 30 

 99 



4 



4 



12-13 



5 



81 



ii.5 



24 



2ll.r, 



57 

 22 



30 



17.3 



58 



Between posterior angles, 20. 

 t Between posterior angles. 17, 



t The membrane lacking. 

 ; Including membrane. 



ONCHOCEPHALUS YESPERTILIO, (Linn.eus), Goode and Bean. 



Lophius vesper tilio, Linn jl us, Syst. Nat. Ed. x, 1, 236. 



Mallhe veapertilio, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xn, 440. — Goode, Bull, vi, U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 (full synonymy). 



A Malthe, with distance between the anterior angles of orbits less than that between 

 the posterior angles; a subcorneal process projecting forward from the head, variable in 

 length but longer than in the other species (about one-tenth of total) ; rostral groove longer 

 than broad. Color, grayish-brown above, tawny below. 



Radial formula: D. 4; A. 4. 



Specimens were obtained by the Blake at station CLXIX, in 24° 46' X. lat,, 83° 16' W. Ion., 

 at a depth of 36 fathoms, and at station clxxi. in 24° 43' X. hit., 83° 25' W. Ion., at a depth 

 i.l 37 fathoms. Also, by the Albatross from station 2311, in 32° 55' X. hit., 77° 54' W. Ion., 

 at a depth of 79 fatlioms ; from station 2313, in 32° 53' X. lat., 77° 53' W. Ion., at a depth of 99 

 fathoms; from station 2362, in 22° 08' 30" X. lat., 86° 51' 15" W. Ion., at a depth of 25 fath- 

 oms; from station 2402, in 28° 36' X. lat., 85° 33' 30" W. Ion., at a depth of 111 fathoms; 

 from station 2404, in 28° 44' X. lat., 85° 16' W. Ion., at a depth of 60 fathoms; from station 

 2405, in 28° 45' X. lat., 85° 02' W. Ion., at a depth of 30 fathoms; from station 2406, in 28° 

 46' X. hit,, 84° 49' \Y. Ion., at a depth of 26 fathoms; from station 2417, in 33° 18' 30" X. 

 hit., 77° 07' W. Ion., at a depth of 95 fathoms, and from station 2318, in 24° 25' 45" X. lat., 

 81° 46' 45" W. Ion., at a depth of 45 fatlioms. 



HALIEUT^A, Cuv. and Val. (Figure 403.) 

 Holt, ulna. tTVIFP. and Valencennes, Hist. Nat, Poiss. \n, 155. — GtiNTHER, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., Ill, 203. 



Maltheids with subcircular body disk, and slender caudal peduncle, with depressed 

 frontal region ami snout rounded and obtuse, and with conspicuous rostral tentacle. Mouth 

 large, palate toothless. Carpus exserted. Gills in 2i pairs. 



This genus was known only from the northwest Pacific, where the Halieutcea stellata, 

 whose dried skin is so familiar in the insect boxes made up for sale to visitors, occurs at 

 considerable depth. In 1889 the Investigator obtained a new species, pink and crimson in 

 color, in the Andaman Sea, in 265 fathoms, which Aleock names Halieutcea coccinea. (Fig. 

 410.) ' 



'Ann. & Mat,'. Nat. Hist., 1889,382. 



