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OIV THE IPBOPER SPECEFDC 1VAIT.BE OF TTESE COIttMOIV PEff^AGIC 

 ANTENNAKBD® i»TEK©PSflKVNE. 



By TMEOKOKE «BI.E. 



The most commou aiul widely distributed of the Antennariids, aud 

 which is the i^eculiar species of the high seas, has been entered in the 

 most recent systematic lists under the names Antennarius marmoratuis* 

 and Pterophryne pibfa.f In this connection, it has been assumed that 

 the species had first received names from Bloch and Schneider in 1801. 

 I propose, however, to show, (1) that the species itself had long before re- 

 ceived a name from the founder of the binomial nomenclature, aud (2) that 

 neither of the names of Bloch and Schneider is referable to these species. 

 Long ago recognizing that the names of Bloch and Schneider had 

 nothing to do with a Pterophryne, but without the bibliographical aids 

 for certainly ascertaining what name had priority, I have hitherto 

 adopted the provisional name Pterophryne Iccvigata, as Liitken has also 



recently done. 



I. 



It behooves us, first, to inquire what was the basis of the LopMus 

 Mstrio of Linnceus. 



In 1747, in his " Wiistgota resa forrattad ar 171G", Linnseus described, 

 as "Balistes, qvae Guaperva c\nnems^\ a small fish scarcely exceeding in 

 length the last joint of the thumb, in the following terms, as translated 

 in the German edition of 17G54 



'^Balistes, quae Guaperva chinensis. Corpus acutum, compressura. 

 Dorsum antice gibbum. Pectus compressum, pinnis pectoralibus termina- 

 tutu, prominulum. Latera corporis picta lituris lacteis, annularibus, 

 interruptis, puncto centrali lacteo notatis. Caput magnum, thoraci 

 immersuui, dentibus minutissimis iustructum. Fllamentum subulatum, 

 erectum, loco narium. Pinna dorsalis anterior retrorsum falcatosub- 

 ulata, mollis, alta, e gibbere dorsi juxta caput euata, radio I. Pinna 

 dorsalis posterior radiis 12. Pinnse pectorales brachiorum iustar manu- 

 bris iustructae, et antrorsum mauuum instar inflexae (quod in pisci- 

 bus singulare), radiis 10. Pinnae ventrales approximatae, radiis 5. 

 Pinna caudae radiis 9. Pinna ani radiis 7. Iris ocnlorum alba. Magni- 

 tudo totius piscis vix extimum pollicis articulum superat. Diversissima 

 species a Guaperva lonstoni T. VI. f. G. quam ex America possideo. Die 

 Figur dieses Fisches in natiirlicher Grosse ist die 5*'^ auf der 3"^° Tafel, 

 wo er bey a von der Seite, bey h aber auf dem Riicken vorgestellet ist, 

 dass die Aerme an den pinnis pectoralibus deutlich in die Augen fallen." 



The acute compressed body, the round milky spots, the small ros- 

 tral filament (none is represented in the figure), the well developed fins, 



*Anteuuariusmarmoratus, GM«//i6T, Cat. risbesiaBritMus.,v. :5,p. 1H5, 18G1 ; Bleeker, 

 Atlas Icbthyologiqne Indes Orient. Nderland., t. 5, p. 23, 1865. 

 tPterophryue picta, Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat Mus., No. 5, p. 20, 1876. 

 tLiuu6, Eeiseu durcli Westgothland. 8vo. Halle, 1765. p. 160, S. 138. 



