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yellomsh or reddish, with numorous brown spots, thoHO round the 

 eye forming radiating streaks. Dorsal and anal fins w'ith three scries 

 of round brown spots, the middle of v.'hich is formed by the largest 

 spots and the most constant. Sometimes uniform brown. 

 Caribbean Sea. (? Sea of Otaheitc.) 



a. Adult : skin. Caribbean Sea. From Dr. Parnell's Collection. 

 6, c. Adult. (? Otaheite.) Cook's Voyage. — Types of Lophhis stri- 



atvs, Shaw. 

 d, e. Adult. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 

 /, g. Adult : stuffed. 



Var. a. 



Chironectes principis, pt, Cuv. ^ Vol. xii. p. 41G (the iirst figure 

 " d'un brun tres-fonc6," &c.). 



Head and body brown, without distinct markings ; spots on the 

 dorsal and caudal fins distinct. 



a. Adult. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



Var. /3. 



Uniform brown. 



a,h. Half-grown. Caribbean Sea. From the Collection of the Zoo- 

 logical Society. 

 c. Half-grown: discoloured. 



4. Antennarius tigris. 

 Chironectes tigris, Poey, Mem. Cub. i. p. 217. lam. 17. fig. 2. 

 D. 3 I 12. A. 7. P. 11. 



The anterior dorsal spine is longer than the second, terminating 

 in two long cutaneous flaps. The third dorsal spine is connected 

 with the soft dorsal by a broad membrane ; the latter terminates at 

 some distance fx'om the caudal, and its last ray docs not extend to 

 the root of the caudal, if laid backwards. Skin rough, covered with 

 small spines, without cutaneous fringes. Ground-colour yellow, 

 with numerous brown spots and streaks, the latter radiating from the 

 eye ; dorsal fin irregiilarly spotted, without a series of large round 

 brown spots. {Poey.) 



Sea of Cuba. 



5. Antennarius hispidus. 



Koelreuter, Nov. Comm. Petrop, x. p. 337. tab. 8. fig. 1 ; Russell, pi. 19, 



Lophius hispidus, Bl. Schn. p. 143. 



Chironectes lophotes, Cuv. 3Iem. Mus. Hist. Nat. iii. p. 428. pi. 17. fig. 2. 



hi'spidus, Cuv. ^- Val. xii. p. 407. 



Antennarius hispidus, Cant. Catal. p. 203 ; Bleek. Amhoina 8f Ceram, 

 p. 280. 



D. 3 I 12. A. 7. 



The anterior dorsal spine is of moderate length, and terminates 



