4. ANTENNARIUS. 183 



Chironectes politus, Richards. Trans. Zool. Soc. iii. p. 133, and Voy, 

 Ereb. and Terr. Fishes, p. 16. pi. 9. fig. 2, is closely allied to, if not 

 identical with, this species. It is from Van Diemen's Land. 



3. SACCARIUS. 



Head very large, high, compressed ; cleft of the mouth vertical ; 

 jaws and palate armed with cardiform teeth. Body covered with 

 minute spines. Three dorsal spines, the two anterior of which are 

 imited by a membrane ; the first slender, the third entirely separated 

 from the soft dorsal. The latter fin of moderate length, longer than 

 the anal. Gill-apparatus as in AntennarivjS. Stomach very wide. 



Coast of New Zealand. 



1. Saccarius lineatus. 

 D. 2 I 1 I 12. A. 7. C. 9. P. 10. V. 5. 



The height of the body is contained twice and two-fifths in the 

 total length. Cleft of the mouth sub vertical, with bands of cardi- 

 form teeth in the jaws and on the palate. Skin very rough, covered 

 with small simple and forked spines ; series of small spiny tubercles 

 round the eye and along the lateral line ; some short cutaneous 

 fringes at the angle of the mouth. The dorsal spines are broadly 

 webbed posteriorly, the membrane between the two anterior ones 

 uniting them into one fin, although it is deeply notched. The first 

 spine is slender, rather longer than the second, enveloped in trans- 

 parent membrane, and only free at its extremity, which terminates 

 in a small tentacle ; the second is stout and, like the third, enveloped 

 in rough skin. The soft dorsal terminates at some distftfice from the 

 caudal fin, and its last ray does not extend to the root of the latter. 

 The ventrals are shorter than the maxillary bone. Ground-colour 

 olive-yellowish ; head and body with numerous brown stripes, obHque 

 on the head and trunk, vertical along the base of the dorsal and 

 anal fins, longitudinal on the taU. Vertical fins with two or three 

 series of black ocellated spots. 

 Sea of New Zealand. 



inches, lines. 



Total length 5 6 



Height of the body 2 4 



a. Bay of Islands. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 



4. ANTENNARIUS*. 



Chironectes, pt., Ouv. Eegne Anitn. 

 Antennarius, Comtners. ; Cuv. B^gne Anhn, 



Head very large, high, compressed ; cleft of the mouth vertical 

 or subvertical; jaws and palate armed, with cardiform teeth. Body 



* 1. Chironectes payoninus, Cuv. ^ Vol. xii. p. 421. — Typical specimen at 

 Gottingen. 

 2. chlorostigma, (Ehrenh.) Cuv.<^- Vat. xii. p.-420. — Massuah. '6. 



