Jordan and Evennann. — Fishes of North America. 2725 



forming a triangle on the caudal, there are others scattered over the cau- 

 dal and other lius, and over the sides of the hody. Below the eye on the 

 cheek and nuder the chin and the chest the spots are little more than black 

 dots. Over the sides, a specimen in hand, the type of A. coralliniis, Poey, is 

 freckled with lighter rounded spots. Behind the pectoral, on the side, there 

 is a small ocellus Avitli a black center. On each side in the same position, a 

 short distance above the pectoral, there is a brown ocellus larger than the 

 orbit, in the center of which there is a white dot. A brown streak passes 

 back from the ui)per part of the orbit and curves down toward the anal 

 ocellus, another passes back from the middle of the eye and curves down 

 toward the pectoral, and a third below the third dorsal spine runs down 

 and then forward toward the lower end of the maxillary. The forehead 

 is comparatively narrow ; behind the second dorsal ray the bare space is 

 hardly large enough to receive the bait." 



Poey thus describes Antennarins coralUnus, which according to Gannan, 

 is the same as A. mulfiocellatiis : 



"D. II-I, 12; A. 7; V. I, 5; C. 17. Two dorsal sjiines in front of eye, 

 formed like horns, another higher on the nape; gill opening si)inil, at the 

 lower l)ase of the pectoral; general form of the fish almost globular; the 

 mouth vertical ; tongue marbled with black and white; caudal rounded; 

 eyes very small; pectoral low, reaching middle of body without caudal; 

 ventrals short; ven1»near anal; first dorsal spine ending in a single short 

 filament. Color reddish with black spots; 2 of these spots eye-like, with 

 a larger black center and the iris of the color of the body, surrounded 

 with a black circle ; 1 spot at the base of the soft dorsal at the second third 

 of its length, a very weak one at base of anal ; between first spot and pec- 

 toral fin 3 small inconspicuous ocellate spots, of which the pupil is a small 

 point; middle of the body with duskj' spots; dorsal, anal, and caudal with 

 black points; tubercles about eye and on the cheek, but not spinous. 

 Type 95 miu. long. Cuba." (Poey.) (midtus, many; ocellus, an eye-like 

 spot.) 



Ohironectes muUiocellatus, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Kat. Poiss., xi, 422, 1837, Mar- 

 tinique. (Coll. M. Ganiot.) 



Antennarius annulatus. Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 91, Garden Key, Florida 

 (Coll. Lieut. Wright) ; Jordan &. Gilbert, Synopsis, 846, 1883. 



Antennarius coralliims, Poey, Repertorio, i, 188, 1865, Cuba. (Coll. Poey.) 



Antennarius multiocellatus, Gunthee, Cat., ni, 194, 1861; Garrla.n, Bull. Iowa Lab. Nat. 

 Hist. 1896, 82. 



3106. ANTENXARIUS RADIOSUS, Garruan. 



D. 3-fl3; A. 8; V. 5; P. 11; C. 9. Resembling ^. iigrris, Poey, in shape, 

 squamation, etc., but diftering in coloration and in possession of a much 

 longer dorsal ray. The staff in this ray is very slender, much longer than 

 the second ray, and bears a small, trifid "bait." Second and third dorsal 

 rays shorter than the first, the third well tied down by the skin. Scales 

 uniform, sharp. No cutaneous fringes on large specimens. Grayish or 

 brownish white, darker on nape and dorsal fin, with numerous spots of 

 light color, as large as the orbit, surrounded by more or less complete 



