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



From the foregoing description it will be seen how Chaunax differs from each of the 

 other five genera of Lophidce. 



Whilst Cheironectes seems its most natural, Halieuttea is its nearest technical ally. 

 Agreeing with Lophius in the wide transverse mouth, and in the backward position of 

 the breathing orifices on the flanks, but with Cheironectes more in shape, and in the 

 granular or velvety roughness of the skin, in colours it differs from both, and ap- 

 proaches Halieutcea in the absence of crests or cilia on the back, and in the single dorsal 

 fin. In these last two points, and in the roughness of the skin, it agrees with HalieutcEa, 

 but differs in its Diodon-like shape, and in the position of the breathing-holes consider- 

 ably behind, instead of above or before, the axils of the pectoral fins. 



I am indebted to the able pencil of the Rev. E. H. Woodall for the spirited and ac- 

 curate drawing from which the illustration was taken. 



Madeira, July 28, 1S46. 



