4. ANTENNARIUS. 1 9o 



several rings and ocelli on the side of the body : one above the pec- 

 toi'al, wath a white dot and a small tentacle in the centre. Head 

 and body with many short cutaneons fringes. 

 Caribbean Sea. 



a. Fine specimen : five inches long. Caribbean Sea. From the 



Collection of the Zoological Society. 



b. Half-grown : skin. Caribbean Sea. From Dr. Parnell's Collection. 



c. Adnlt : stnffed : bad state. 



Var. y. leucosoma. 



Lophius pictus, Shaw, Nat. Misc. pi. 176. fig. 1, and Zool. v. p. 386. 



pi. 165. 

 Antennarius leucosoma, Bleek. Floris, p. 328. 



White, dotted all over with violet ; a brown spot between the 

 second and third dorsal spines, including the top of the former ; an 

 irregular brown band descends fi'om the first dorsal ray towards 

 the pectoral, including an ocellus with white centre posteriorly ; an 

 irregular brown spot on the back of the tail, including the last dorsal 

 ray, and emitting a vertical streak across the root of the caudal. A 

 brown ocellus behind the middle of the side of the body ; three small 

 ones below the upper margin of the anterior part of the dorsal fin. 

 Cutaneous fringes none. 



Seas of Amboyna and Floris. 



a. Fine specimen : thirty lines long. Amboyna. Purchased of 

 Mr. Frank. 



Shaw's figure agrees very well with the specimen in the British 

 Museum ; but he represents the ground-colour dark and the mark- 

 ings Hght. 



Var. S. leprosa. 



Chironectes leprosus, Eydoux iSj- Souleijet, Vol/. Bonite, Zool. i. p. 187, 

 Poiss. pi. 5. fig. 3. 



Ground-colour blackish -brown, irregularly marbled with greyish. 

 Cutaneous fringes none. 

 Sandwich Islands. 



17. Antennarius nummifer. 



Chironectes nummifer, Cm: 3Icm. Mas. iii. p. 430. pi. 17. fig. 4 ; Cuv. 



^ Val. xii. p. 425 ; Riqip. N. W. Fische, p. 141. 

 Antennarius nummifer, Bleek, Amb&ina, v. p. 497. 



D. 3 I 12. A. 7. P. 10. 



The anterior dorsal spine is short, with cimeiform extremity. 

 Skin rough, covered with small spines ; cutaneous fringes not nu- 

 merous. Red. clouded with darker, with scattered larger and smaller 

 blackish-violet spots, one below the posterior portion of the dorsal 

 fin being the largest. Belly densely spotted with brown. Base of 



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