FISHES. 
3G1 
Genus 94*.—ASPIDOPHORUS.— Lacepede. 
Generic Character. —Head thicker than the body, with pro¬ 
duced points above and some depressions; flat beneath; body 
octagonal, covered with scaly plates. 
Germs 95. — PLATYCEPHALUS.— Bloch. 
Generic Character. —Head depressed; suborbitaries large and 
broad; body depressed; ventral fins considerably apart, and 
placed behind the pectorals. 
Genus 96. — BATRACHUS.— Schneider. 
Generic Character. —Head depressed, broader than the body; 
mouth large; lips frequently furnished with cirri; operculi spi¬ 
nous ; first dorsal fin short, having three spinous rays; the se¬ 
cond and anal fins soft and long. 
Genus 97. — LOP HI US.— Cuvier. 
Generic Character. —Head very broad and considerably de¬ 
pressed, with various spines and moveable rays ; mouth very 
wide, with long acute teeth; lower jaw provided with numerous 
cirri; branchial membrane having six elongated rays, and the 
opening behind the pectorals; ventral fins placed before the 
pectorals ; body destitute of scales ; no swimming bladder 
Lophius piscatorius. —The Fishing-Frog 
Plate LXXXII. fig-. 6. 
Brown, clouded with dusky; pale dusky-green beneath. Four 
feet long. Inhabits the European seas. 
Genus 9S. —ANTENNARIUS. — Commerson . 
Generic Character. — Head compressed, provided with five 
rays, the first slender, frequently terminated by a tuft, the two 
next increased by a membrane, which is tumid in some species, 
and united like a fin; mouth opening vertically; branchial mem¬ 
brane with four rays; dorsal fin large; body often covered with 
fleshy appendages. 
