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 ENGIiAIVM OBTAIIVEO BY TME UIVaXED STATES FISIB €07IiTIIS- 

 liilOIV IN THE SUITIITQEB OF J 880. 



By G. RROW^ GO^SiE. 



The following- paper euumerates 51 species of fisbes known to occur 

 outside of the buudretl-fatbom curve along the southern coast of New 

 Enjilaud. Nearly all were obtained by the Fish Commission steamer 

 "Fish Hawk" on its three trips co the ''Lopbolatilus Ground" in Sep- 

 tember. Several of the species were described a few weeks ago in 

 another i^aper. 



MALTHEID^. 



1. Halieuteea senticosa, new species. 



A single small specimen (No. 26088) was obtained, September 13, from 

 station 879, at a depth of 225 fathoms, and on October 2, from station 

 895, 238 fathoms, four specimens (No. 26175), ranging in length from 

 GO™" to 140""". 



The occurrence on the Atlantic coast of the United Stntes of a species 

 of the genus Halieuteea, hitherto known only from China, is exceedingly 

 interesting. A related genus, Halieutichthys, Poey, is represented in 

 the West Indian fauna by the species Halieutichthys aculeatus.*' 



Description^. — Disk orbicular, nearly as wide as long; its length less 

 than half that of the body; its lateral outlines prolonged on each side 

 in a strong spine, armed at the tip witli a group of irregularly arranged 

 acicular spinelets. Body covered above with numerous stout, conical 

 spines with stellular bases. These are largest u])on the postdiscal por- 

 tion of the body, where they are approximately arranged in about four 

 irregular longitudinal rows upon each side of the dorsal fin. Closely 

 set rows of these stout spines mark the outer margin of the disk, and 

 there is also a cluster of five to seven upon each carpal peduncle. Out- 

 side of these marginal spines, upon each side, is an irregular marginal 

 row of five depressed, kuife-Iike si)ines, each tipped with a crown of 

 three acicular spinelets. On the anterior margin of the disk the two 

 i-ows of spines coalesce and form a bristling row of closely set spines, 

 some pointing dorsally, some laterally, some ventrally. There are two 

 kinds of spines upon the dorsal surface, in addition to the large ones 

 already described : some large, somewhat remote from each other, coni- 

 cal, stellular ; others, much more numerous and filling the interspaces, 

 prickle-like, stellular. Belly armed with numerous closely set spines 

 of a similar kind. Snout somewhat projecting, armed with three many- 



* Halieutichthys aculeatun (Mitcbill) Gooflc. 



Lophius aculeatus, Mitcuili,, Aiiut. Montbly Maj^aziiie, ii, 1818, p. H25 (speci- 

 meu from Straits of Bahama). 



Halieutichthys aculeatus, Goodf., Proc-. IT. S. Nat. Mns. ii, 1879, p. 109 (calling 

 attention to Mitchill's (lescrijjtiou). — Goode & Bean, ibid. p. S'.V,i (speci- 

 men from Key West). 



Halieutichthys reticulatus, Poey, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila. 1863, p. 91 (speci- 

 men from Cuba). 



