340 REV. R. T. LOWE ON A NEW GENUS OF LOPHID^. 



off Camera de Lobos, a village five or six miles to the westward of Funchal, on the 

 twelfth of March last. It is placed in the Society's Museum. 



Chaunax. 



Char. Gen. — Corpus subcubico-oblongum, sufflabile, nudum, cute praesertim ad ilia 

 ventremque flaccidissima laxa; antic^ obesum, postic^ abrupt^ attenuatum subcom- 

 pressum. Caput osseum magnum subtetrahedrum, supern^ nuchaque latum planatum, 

 utrinque s. ad genas declive ; oculis lateralibus spatio interoculari convexo ; ore ric- 

 tuque amplissimis transversis plagio-plateis s. depressis. Denies intermaxillares vome- 

 rinique palatinique parvi scobinati. Nares simplices (nee pedicellattc nee tubulosee). 

 Spiracula (foramina branchialia) postica s. ad ilia pone pinnarum pectoralium axillas. 



Pinna dorsalis unica; pectoralibus (pedicellatis) carnosis ; ventralibus jugularibus 

 spathulatis carnosis ; analis postica ; caudalis simplex truncata. 



Cirri, prseter unicum in fossula internasali, nulli. 



Chaunax pictus, nob. 



D. 11; A. 5; P. 11; V. 4; C. \^. 



Species adhuc unica. 

 Hah. In mari Maderensi. 



Shape rather that of Ostracion or Diodon than of either Lophius or Cheironectes ; i. e. 

 neither depressed nor compressed, but both thick and deep, that is subcubic or coffer- 

 shaped and about half as deep as broad, with a puffy flaccid appearance, and evidently 

 capable of vast inflation ; bulky forwards, with the head, nape and body of equal size 

 or depth and thickness, the latter contracting suddenly at the flanks or behind the 

 pectoral fins into a short thickish tail. Back of head and nape as far as the dorsal fin 

 broad and thick, flattened, and uneven or irregularly protuberant ; thence to the end of 

 the dorsal fin the body is nearly cylindric, becoming compressed towards the root of 

 the caudal fin. 



Head both broad and deep, bony, and resembling that of Diodon reticulatus, L., with 

 the eyes lateral and separated by a convex space, as in most fishes : the sides of the 

 head steep, but not flat. Mouth like that of a Toad or Toad-fish, very large and wide, 

 but not so wide as the head, horse-shoe or crescent-shaped. Upper jaw or muzzle 

 very short and broad, with a wide notch at its tip. The lower jaw projects considerably 

 beyond it, turning upwards as in Uranoscopus, Beryx, or Priacanthus. Maxillary rough, 

 distinct and broad downwards, playing freely as usual in its smooth groove. Lips in 

 both jaws smooth and distinct ; in the lower, broad. Teeth in a distinct brush-like 

 band on the edges of both jaws (confined to the intermaxillaries in the upper), as on the 

 palatines and vomer; close-set and equal as in Beryx, and though small, yet pretty 

 sharp and strong. The tongue is very large and conspicuous, thick, white, hard or bony, 

 and quite smooth. The nostrils are two inconspicuous, minute, round, simple pores on 



