200 PKDICTJLATI. 



5. CHAUNAX. 



Chaimax, Loive, Tram. Zool. Soc. iii. p. 33£>. 



Head very large, depressed ; cleft of the mouth wide, siibvertical ; 

 jaws and palate armed with cardiform teeth. Skin covered with 

 minute spines. The spinous dorsal is reduced to a small tentacle 

 above the snout ; the soft dorsal of moderate length ; anal short. 

 GiU-opening behind the pectoral. 



Sea of Madeira. 



1 . Chaimax pictus. 

 Lowe, I.e. pi. 51. 



D. 1 I 11. A. 5. P. 11. V. 4. C. 8. 

 Rostral tentacle short, pedicellate. Muciferous channels very 

 distinct, visible externally as chain-like rows of pits. Bright orange 

 above, rosy on the sides ; fins and lijjs vermilion. 



Sea of Madeira. 

 a. Sixteen inches long : stuffed. Camera de Lobos. From the 



Collection of the Zoological Society.— Tj^pe of the species. 

 6. Fine specimen. Madeira. Purchased of Mr. Stevens. 



6. MALTHE. 



Malthea, Cm: Rbgne Aimn. 



Anterior portion of the body very broad and depressed ; forehead 

 (nasal bones) produced into a more or less prominent process, beneath 

 which is a tentacle retractile into a ca'vit}'. Jaws and palate with 

 villiform teeth. Skin with many conical protuberances. Only one soft 

 and very short dorsal fin ; anal equally short. Gill-opening superiorly 

 in the axil ; gills two and a half, the anterior arcus branchialis being 

 short and destitute of lamcUa^ ; psendobranehiae none. Five branchio- 

 stegals. Air-bladder and pyloric appendages absent. 



Inhabitants of the Atlantic coasts of Tropical and Northern 

 America, living on MoUusea. 



1. Malthe vespertilio. 



Guacucuja, llarcc/r. p. 143 ; Willughb. ii. E. fig. 3 ; Ray, Sijn. p. 30. 



Diablo, Parra, p. 5. lam. 4. 



Guaperva, Broicn, Hist. Nat. Jam. p. 457. pi. 48. fig. 3. 



Sebu, i. 74. 2. 



Lophius, sp. no. 2, Artecli, Syn. p. 88 ; Gronov. Zoophyl. uo. 209, and 



Mm. Ichthyol. i. p. 58. no. 129. 

 Sea-Bat, Edu-arck, Glean, pi. 283. 



Nicholson, Hist. Nut. St. Boiningo, pp. 347, 348. pi. 7. fig. 3. 

 Lophius vespertilio, L. Syst. Nat. i. p. 402 ; £1. tab. 110 ; £1. Schn. 



p. 140 ; Lacep. i. pp. 302, 315 ; Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 48. 

 Batrachus, no. 9, Klein, Miss. Pise. iii. p. 17. 

 Chauve-souris de mer, Diihatn. iii. sect. 9. pi. 16. figs. 1, 2 (bad). 

 Lophius rostratus, Shaio, Zool. v. p. 383. pi. 163. 

 Malthea vespertilio, Cuv. 4" Val. xii. p. 440 ; Cm: R'egne Anirn. III. 



Poiss. pi. 85. fig. 2 ; Dekay, New York Fauna, Fishes, p. 167. 



