480 DEEP-SEA FISHES OF THE ATLANTIC I5ASIN. 



Newfoundland. The museum of the Essex Institute has a specimen about 4 inches in Iciiul li. 

 taken on the Banks of Newfoundland iu ISoG, by L. J.Johnson. This is jiiobably the most 

 northern recoided occurrence of the species in the western Atlantic, except an iinconlirnied 

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



It fre(iuents the moderate depths along the coast from Nova Scotia to Virginia and at 

 greater depth as far south as the Antilles. I'he Hhdr obtained it oil' r)arl)ados atr a ilijith 

 of 209 fathoms (station iv), and at 84 fathoms in latitude 23° 13', longitude 8!)o 10' (station 

 CCLVII). 



The Fifih Hairk tr.iwlcd it at station 826. Another specimen (No. 2(;i70), 2(1 ('(Miti 

 meters long, containing immature ova, was taken at station S04, at a depth of .Wia fathoms; 

 also a large specimen with immature ova (No. 2G()t(8), from station STG, 120 fathoms; and a- 

 smaller one, perhajjs two years old (No. 26070), from station S7S, 142.] fathoms. 



The Alhnfrnss obtaini'd young Individuals at station 2025 and station 2121. 



( Jiinther 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 Talinman obtained it at 

 400 to 760 meters (stations ex, oxi, cxiii a, cxxui) about the Azores and Cape Verdes. 



Family ANTENNARI ID.^. 



Anteiniariitln; (iiix, I'roc. Acnd. N.at. tSci., I'liil.a., IStlS, ]i. S!l. — .\riaiij;eiiioiit, F.imilies of Fislios, 2 (No. IHI); 

 I'roi-. U. S. N. M., 1, 1S7S, pp. 215, 223.— .loKDAN & Gii.bkut, liull. xvi, IT. S. N. M., SI.".. 



Pediculates with head and body more or less compressed. Mouth dpi ning ui)\vards, 

 vertical or very oblique; Jaws with canlifoiia teeth. (!ill openings in or behind tlie lower 

 axils of the pectorals small and poi'clike. No pscudobranchia-. Skin naked, smooth, oi' 

 prickly. Pectoral members distinctly geniculated. I'sendobrachia long, with 3 actinosts. 

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

 tentacle-like spines; soft dorsal, larger than ainil. Pyloric cieca none. 



PTEROPHRYNE, Gill. 



rtiro^thrijuf, Cii.i., rnic. Aiail. Nat. Sci. Phila., xv, IStK. !10; I'roc. U. S. Nat. Mas., I, 1S7S. 2lfi. 

 riirojiliriixoides, (ilLI,, Proi'. II. S. Nat. Miis., I, 1S7S, 21li (name pi'ojiosBd as an altiTnali' lor I'terophrtinc, if 

 the latter is too near to J'terojihriiiiiis). 



Antennariids with skin naked and smooth; (laudal peduncle free; month oblique; 

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

 wrists slender, and ventrals elongated. 



PTEROPHRYNE HISTRIo. ( I.inn.eus), Giix. 



hophbin hislrio, LiXN.KUS Syst. Nat., ed. xii, 1766, i, 493. 



ritrophriine hislrio, (ili.L, I'roc. Acad. N.it. Sci. Phila., 1S63, !l(); I'roc. V. S. N.at. Mn.s.. i, 187S, 216 (with full 



synonymy). 

 Anteiinariiis mnrmnraliis.—CvrsTtiKR, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., m, 1S7. 



A description of this species in its i)rotean manifestations of form and color seems 

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



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

 the variety E. (Cat. Fi.sh. Brit. Mus., iii, p. 187), the Aiiteiitutrins marmoratiis of Cuvier 

 and Valenciennes. 



A specimen was obtained by the U. S. Coast Survey steamer Jildlc olf St. Ninccnt, in 

 the West Indies (station iii), at a depth of 464 fathoms, and another by the U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission steamer Alhatrosx, at the suifaee, near station 21(IS. There is, ofcour.se, noi)ositive 

 evidence that the Bl<ikc''ii specimen actually came from the bottom. 



ANTENNARIUS, Cuvier. 



Antrnvariiis, CfviER, RejinB .\nii'i.'il, cil. T. 1S17, ll, iUO (wrongly (•rcditc<l to roinmcrsnn, 'wlin Avasnot hino- 



iiiial).— fii NTHER, Cat. Fish. Urit. Mns., in, 1S3.— Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., xv, 1863, !tO. 

 Cheironicles, CuviKR, Hegne Animal, ed. 2, 1829, II, 2.52, note (Prcoccnjiied in Mammalogy, Illiger, 1811). 



Antennariids having body covered with si)ines generally forked ; caudal iicduncle free ; 

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



