[139 J CAiALoori-: of the risiiLs of nortu America. 



572.— ONEIRODES Liitken. (471) 



1648. Oneirodea eschrichti Liitkoii. B. G. (IIJOU) 



573.— HIMANTOLOPHUS ReinharcU. (472) 



1649. Himantolophus groenlandicus Reiuhanlt. B. G. (1310) 



1650. Himantolophus reinhardti Liitkeu. B. G. (1311) 



Family CLII.— MALTHID.E. (126) 



574.— MALTHE Cuvier. (473) 



1651. Malthe vespertilio LinnaMis. S. W. (1312) 

 1651b. Malthe vet^pertiVto racUata^ 'SWtchiU. S. (1313) 



1652. Malthe elater- Jordan & Gilbert, P. 



575.— HALIEUTICHTHYS Poey. (474) 



1653. Halieutichthys acxxleatus Mitchill. W. (1314) 



576.— HALIEUT-SJA Cuvier & Valenciennes. (475) 



1654. Halieutaea senticosa Goocle. B. (1315) 



Order CC.-PLECTOGNATHI. (W.) 

 Family CLIII.— OSTRACIID^. (47C) 



577.— OSTRACION Linnajus. (476) 

 ^Lactophrys. Swainson. 



1655. Ostracion triquetrnm Linnaeus. W. (1316 6.) 



1656. Ostracion trigonum Linnaeus. W. (131G) 



1657. Ostracion tricorne^ Linnaeus. W. S. (1317) 



minal joint, a large intermediate globular and a pair of sub-peduuculated lateral 

 dorsal appendages near the front of the dorsal tin, and well-developed pectorals of 

 about 15 rays. 



" Crypiopsaras couesii. — The basal joint of the rod-like spine is almost entirely con- 

 cealed and procumbent, and the distal joint alone free, reaching backward to the 

 dorsal tubercles; the bulb is pyriform and surmounted by a long whitish filament; 

 the dorsal and anal have each 4 spines, the caudal 8 (the 4 middle dichotomous), and 

 the pectorals each about 15 rays. The species has been named after the eminent orni- 

 thologist, Dr. Elliott Coues. The name is derived from the Greek cruptos (concealed,) 

 and nsaras (fisherman), and has reference to the concealed 'rod' or basal joint of the 

 anterior spine or lishiug apparatus." 



' Midihe cubifrons Rich., seems to he only an extreme variety of Malthe vespertilio. 

 Every gradation in size and form of the rostral process exists between the very long- 

 nosed var. longirosiris, to the button-nosed cubifrons, and thus far I am unable to 

 show any dividing lines. The original record of Malthe cubifrons as from Labrador 

 was nn error. It is not certainly known from any point north of Florida. The name 

 Lophius radiatus Mitchill, Amer. Monthly Mag., March, 1818, 326, is prior to that of 

 culiifrons. The short-snouted form may therefore stand as — 



Malthe vespertilio ramata. (See Jordan & Swaiu, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1884, 234.) 



2 M<. Ithe elater Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1881, 365. Mazatlan. 



■' OsU-acion /ricor/fisLinnieiis. Syst, Nat, X, 1758, 331 = Ostracion quadricornis Linnteus, 

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