126. MALTHID^— HALIEUTyEA. 
851 
49'4. HAI.IEUTICHTHYS Poey. 
(Poey, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 89: tyjie Ilalieutichthys reticulatua Poey.) 
Disk suborbiciilar, about as long as the rest of the body (including 
caudal fin) ; forehead with a transverse bony ridge, the cavity beneath 
it being without a tentacle; month rather small, inferior, the lower jaw 
nearly semicircular; teeth fine, on jaws and palate. Dorsal and anal 
fins with four rays each, {u/ueurrj:;^ fisher; fish.) 
1344. II. acHleatias (Mitch.) Goode. 
Color gray, reticulated with blackish; caudal with three blackish 
bauds. Disk longer than wide and somewhat narrowed anteriorly; 
ridges armed with simple spiues; five bicuspid spines on each lateral 
margin of the disk, and between them smaller, simifieoues; five si)iues 
forming a iientagon before iuterorbital area; one over each orbit, and 
4 on a ridge behind each orbit. D. 4; A. 4. {GUI.) Cuba to Southern 
Florida. 
( Lopliiufi acideatus Mitch. Amer. Monthly Mag. ii, 32-5, 1818: Halieutichthys reticulatus 
Poey MSS., Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 91; Goode, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 
ii, 109, 1879.) 
475. ISALiIEUTiEA Cuvier & Valenciennes. 
(Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss. xii, 455, 1837 : type Lophius stellatus Wahl.) 
Head very large, broad, depressed, its outline nearly circular; cleft 
of the mouth wide, horizontal; jaws with small cardiform teeth; no 
teeth on vomer or palatines. Skin every wliere covered with small, stel- 
late spines. Forehead with a transverse bony ridge, beneath which is 
a tentacle, retractile into a cavity, the only rudiment of the spinous 
dorsal fin; soft dorsal and anal very short, far back. Gills 2J, the 
anterior gill-arch without lainime. Brauchiostegals 5; vertebrae 17. 
Warm seas. {dXceu-rrj:;^ one who fishes.) 
1315. H. seasticosa Goode. 
Eeddish gray, whitish below. Disk orbicular, nearly as broad as 
long, its outlines prolonged on each side in a strong spine, armed at tip 
with a group of spinelets; skin above Avith numeious stout, conical stel- 
lated spines, largest posteriorly ; a marginal series of close-set spines, 
besides o to 7 on each carpal peduncle; outside of the marginal spines 
is a row of 5 dei^ressed, knife-like spines, each with a crown of three 
spinelets; these two roAvs of marginal spines coalescing on the front 
edge of disk forming a bristling row, pointing in different direc- 
tions; small stellate prickles in the interspaces of the larger spiues 
