846 COXTKIBUTIOXS TO XORTH AMERICAX ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 
vertical fins Harred Avith brown 5 belly and sides with small white 
spots. Skin of bead and body, as well as dorsal fins, with fleshy tags, 
AA’hich are most nnmerons on the dorsal spines and abdomen. Wrist 
slender; ventrals large, nearly half as long as head. Dorsal and anal 
Avitli the posterior rays not adnate to candal peduncle. Head 2J; 
depth If. I). 111-14; A. 7; X. 0 . Tropical parts of the Atlantic; 
abundant on our Gulf coast and occasional northward. 
{Lopliius hisirio Limi. Syst. Xat. ed. 10, 237: Clnronecies hvrif/atus Cnv. item. Miis. 
iii, 123: AntcunarUis mannoratus Giiuther, in, 1S5: rteropliryne liMrio Gill, Proc. U. S. 
Xat. Mns. i, 216, 1878.) 
aa. Ventral tins short ; skin siiinoiis ; mouth vertical. (Anienuarius.) 
1304. A. anisailatais Gill. 
Fawn-color, lighter belotv; many black spots ocellated with white 
both f)u the body and fins; body with several pink areas, one of which 
forms a triangular saddle in front of the dorsal and another a broad 
ring around the base of the candal fin; angles of mouth with a piidc 
spot. Month large, A^ertical. First dorsal spine slender and straight, 
terminating in three simple tentacles; third dorsal spine partly im- 
bedded in the skin ; wrists and pectorals widened ; ventrals short. 
Skin covered with bifid si)ines. (GiU.) Garden Key, Florida. 
(Gill, Proc. Acad. X"at. Sci. Phila. 1863, 92.^ 
1305. A. |»9eiii’opIatSiaBsiii3S Gill. 
Brown, marbled with lighter, and with scattered black dots; each 
side with three large black spots ocellated ivith brownish; one on 
dorsal near its base, a second immediately below it on the sides, and a 
third in the middle of the candal fin; mouth behind tongue black, with 
yellow lines. Skin covered with minute bifurcated spines. First dor- 
sal spine terminating in a fringed lobe; second spine longer than the 
tir.st, its membrane extending nearly to the base of the third spine, 
the latter nearly free. {GUI.) Key AVest, Florida. 
(Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 92.) 
46§.— CIIAUNAX Lowe. 
(Lowe, Trams. Z06I. Soc. Lond. iii, .339, 1846: type Chainmx pictm Lowe.) 
Head very large, deiiressed, cuboid. Mouth large, subvertical; jaws 
and jialate with cardiform teeth. Skin with minute sjiines. Spinous 
dorsal reduced to a small tentacle above the snout; soft dorsal mod- 
erate, low; anal short. Muciferous channels conspicuous. Atlantic. 
{yab'Mi^.^ one who gapes.) 
