846 CONTRIBUTIONS TO NORTH AMERICAN ICHTHYOLOGY IV. 



vertical fins barred with brown ; belly and sides with small white 

 spots. Skin of head and body, as well as dorsal tins, with fleshy tags, 

 which are most numerous on the dorsal spines and abdomen. Wrist 

 slender; ventrals large, nearly half as long as head. Dorsal and anal 

 with the posterior rays not adnate to caudal peduncle. Head 2:^; 

 depth 1|. r>. III-14; A. 7; V. 5. Tropical parts of the Atlantic; 

 abundant on our Gulf coast and occasional northward. 



(Lophius histrio Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 237: Cldronectes la'dgatus CnY. Mem. Mns. 

 iii, 123: Antennarius marrnoratus Giintlier, in, lb5: rteropliryne histrio Gill, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. i, 216, 1878.) 



aa. Ventral fins short ; skin spinous; mouth vertical. {Antennarius.) 



1304. A. aneiulattas Gill. 



Fawn-color, lighter below; many black spots ocellated with white 

 both on the body and fins; body with several pink areas, one of which 

 forms a triangular saddle in front of the dorsal and another a broad 

 ring around the base of the caudal fin ; augles of mouth with a pink 

 spot. Mouth large, vertical. First dorsal spine slender and straight, 

 terminating in three simple tentacles; third dorsal spine partly im- 

 bedded in the skin; wrists and pectorals widened; ventrals short. 

 Skin covered with bifld'spiues. (GUI.) Garden Key, Florida. 



(Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 92.; 



1303. A. pBeMroisSatBaaBoMMS Gill. 



Brown, marbled with lighter, and with scattered black dots; each 

 side with three large black spots ocelhited with brownish; one on 

 dorsal near its base, a second immediately below it on the sides, and a 

 third in the middle of the caudal tin ; mouth behind tongue black, with 

 yellow- lines. Skin covered with minute bifurcated spines. First dor- 

 sal spine terminating in a fringed lobe; second spine longer than the 

 first, its membrane extending nearly to the base of the third spine, 

 the latter nearly free. {GUI.) Key West, Florida. 



(Gill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 92.) 



46§.— CMAUI^AX Lowe. 

 (Lowe, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. iii, 339, 1846: tyjieChaunaxinvtus Lowe.) 



Head very large, depressed, cuboid. Mouth large, sub vertical; jaws 

 aiul palate with cardiform teeth. Skin with minute spines. Spinous 

 dorsal reduced to a small tentacle above the snout; soft dorsal mod- 

 erate, low; anal short. Muciferous channels conspicuous. Atlantic. 

 {'^auva^y one who gai)es.) 



