200 PEDIC0LATI, 



5. CHAUNAX. 



Chaunax, Lowe, Trans. Zool. Soc. iii, p. 339. 



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. 

 Gill-opening behind the pectoral. 



Sea of Madeira. 



1. Chaunax pictus. 



Lowe, I.e. pi. 61. 



D. 1 i II. A. 5. P. 11. V. 4. C. 8. 

 Eostral tentacle short, pedicellate. Mucrferous channels very 

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

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



Sea of Madeira. 

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



Collection of the Zoological Society. — Type of the species. 

 h. Fine specimen. Madeira. Purchased of Mr. Stnvens. 



6. MALTHE. 

 Malthea, Ciiv. It'egne Anim. 



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 ea\'ity. Jaws and palate with 

 viUiform 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 lamella; ; pseudobranchite none. Five branchio- 

 stegals. Air-bladder and pyloric appendages absent. 



Inhabitants of the Atlantic coasts of Tropical and Northern 

 America, living on Mollusca. 



1. Malthe vespertilio. 



Guacucuja^ Marcgr. p. M3 ; Willughb. ii. E. fig. 3 ; Ray, Syn. p. 30. 



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



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



Seba, i. 74. 2. 



Lopliius, sp. no. 2, Artedi, Syn. p. 88 ; Oronov. Zoophyl. no. 209, and 



Mus. Ichthyol. i. p. 58. no. 129. 

 Sea- Bat, Echvardt, Glean, pi. 283. 



Nicholson, Hist. Nat. St. Domingo, pp. 347, 348. pi. 7. fig. 3. 

 Lophius vespertilio, L. Syst. Nat. i. p. 402; HI. tab. 110; Bl. Schn 



p. 140; Lacep. i. pp. 302, 315 ; Gro?ioi\ Syst. ed. Gray, p. 48. 

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

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

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

 Malthea vespertilio, Cmi. Sf Val. xii. p. 440 ; Cut\ Regne Anim. III. 



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



