Jordan and Evermanyi. — Fishes of North America. 2325 



base of the pectoral obliquely downward and forward to the level of the 

 inferior base of the pectoral. The 2 dorsal spines are slender, pnugent, 

 about \ the length of the head. Dorsal and anal fins terminate immedi- 

 ately before the root of the caudal, the length of which is i the total; 

 pectoral obli(|uely rounded, extending to the origiu of the anal; ventral 

 rather short, not (|uite \ the length of the head, extending to the base of 

 the pectoral. Skin perfectly smooth, with some very short tentacles at 

 the lower jaw. Two short horizontal muciferous channels on the cheek 

 and the lateral line are very distinct; they are not, as usually, composed 

 of a series of distant pores, but the pores are conlluent, forming 1 continu- 

 ous groove of a white color. Other muciferous channels, as for instance 

 along the base of the anal, are composed of separate indistinct pores. 

 Color brown, marbled with darker; pectoral fins and sides of the body 

 with some round black spots; chin and ventrals brownish; belly white. 

 The general habit is that of a Batrachns \_Opsanus']. One specimen, from 

 Puerto Cabello, Caribbean Sea. (Giiuther.) {maculosu^, spotted.) 



Ihalassophryne maculosa, GOnther, Cat., ni, 175, 1861, Puerto Cabello; Gunther, Fishes 

 of Centr. Amer., 43(5, pi. 68, flg. 1, 1869 ; Meek & Hall, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pbila. 1885, 54. 



2657. THALASSOPHEYNE RETICULATA, Gunther. 



1). 11-24; A. 24; V. I, 2; P. 16. The length of the head is f of the 

 total length (without caudal). The teeth on the palate are in a single 

 series, very short, obtuse, incisor-like. Pectoral very large, extend- 

 ing back to the sixth anal ray. Head, body, and fins brown, with a net- 

 work of yellowish lines; vf^rtical and pectoral fins with a white margin. 

 In other respects this species agrees with T. maculosa. Length 13 inches. 

 Panama; not rare, {reticulatus, netted.) 



Thalassophryne reticulata, Gunther, Proc. Zool. Sof,. London 1864, 150, 155, Panama; GOn- 

 ther, i'ish. Centr. Amer., 437, pi. 68, fig. 2, 1869; Jordan & GILBERT, Proc. U. S. Nat, 

 Mus. 1882, 62; Meek & Hall, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1885?. 



862. DiECTOR, Jordan & Evermann, new genus. 

 (Poison Toad-fishes.) 



Dcector, Jordan & Evermann, new genus {dowi). 



Tills genus differs from Thalassophrtinc in the more elongate body and 

 the many-rayed soft dorsal and anal fins, the last rays of which are fully 

 joined to the caudal. {daiHToop, slayer; from SatZoo, to slay.) 



2658. D.ECTOR DOWI (Jordan & Gilbert). 



Head 4 in length (4| with caudal) ; depth 5f (6f ). D. 11-33 ; A. 30. Body 

 comparatively elongate, compressed behind. Head low and rather nar- 

 row, its width 11 in its length. Eye very small, the diameter not i the 

 interorbital space, and about as long as snout, 8 in head. Interorbital 

 width about 5^ in head. Opercular spine short, nearly 4 in head. Mouth 

 oblique, the lower jaw much pi'ojecting. Maxillary 2 in head, extending 



