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base of the dorsal ; one vertically beneath this, opposite the anus ; a third at the base of the 

 caudal ; numerous black points distributed over the surface of the body. Dorsal and caudal 

 fins irregularly banded- 



D. (.'). P. (?)■ V. (?) A. (?). C. (?). Length, {>.). 



Gulf of Mexico, Pahra. 



Pescailor, Parra, p. 1, pi. I. 



Le Chironecteaocellt-s, Chironectes ocellalus, Cuv. etViL., xii. p. -11D. 



5. Chironectes multiocellatus, Cuv. 



Red, with various black or blackish spots and lines. Upon the eighth, ninth, and tenth 

 rays of the dorsal is a black ocellus, surrounded with a white circle ; between the third and 

 fourth ray a halfocellus, bordered like the former ; another upon the anal ; three in the form 

 of a triangle upon the caudal, and one upon the side, back of the pectorals. Its first ray is 

 very long and slender, and without a tuft. 



D. (?). P. (?). V. (?) A. (?). C (?). Length, (?). 



Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



I £ Chironecte a beaucoup d'ocelles, Chironectes multiocellatus, Cuv. et Vai.., xn. p 420. 



GENUS III. MALTHEA, Cuv. 

 Body with a hard and tubercular skin, and furnished with fleshy filaments. 

 Mouth small, prominent, protractile, and placed under the snout. From be- 

 neath the snout arises a process supported by a bony ray and terminating in 

 several fleshy threads. 



1. Malthea vespertilio, Cuv. 



Pale reddish. brown above, lighter beneath. Skin rough, covered with numerous pointed 

 tubercles. Snout elongated into a point. 

 D. 4. P. 11. V. 5. A. 4. C. 9. Length, 8 to 18 inches. 

 Newfoundland, Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 



Diablo, Parra, p. 5. pi. 1. 



Lophius vespertilio, Lin, Syst. Nat. 



Blocii. iv p 3, pi. tin. 



Sea-Bat, Browne's Jamaica, p. 457, pi. K 

 Lophius rostralus, Lin., Beaked Angler, Shaw's Gen. Zoo] , v. p. 333, pi. 1G3. 

 La Malthde vesperlilion, Malthea vespertilio, Cuv. ct Vai.., xii. p. 440. 

 Malthea vesperiilio, Bat-Molthea, Iiekay's Report, p. 167. 



2. Malthea nasuta, Seba. 

 Preserved in spirits, of a grayish white above, with brown blotches. Caudal and pecto- 

 rals whitish, with small round spots. Grayish white beneath. Skin granulated throughout 



