igio.] N. Annandale and J. T. Jenkins: Plectognathi and Pedicidati. 17 



back ; two or three transverse lines on upper part of each side behind the pectoral ; 

 several short vertical lines beneath the eye. Ventral surface cream-coloured. 



6. 



7- 

 8. 



II .—Suborder PEDIC ULA TI. 

 LIST OF THE PEDICULATI OF INDIAN SEAS. 



Fam. LoPHiiDAE. 



Lophius indicus.f§ 

 ,, gracilinianus.t§ 

 ,, mutilus.|§' 

 , , lugubris. t§ 

 , , triradiatus. t§ 



Fam. Ceratiidae 



Lophodolus indicus.t§ 

 Melanocoetus sp.§ 

 Ceratias bispinosus.§ 

 Oneirodes glomerosus.t§ 



20 are deep-sea forms. 



A ntennarius hispidus , 



Fam. Antennariidae. 

 10. Chaunax pictus.§ 

 II- ,, apus.t§ 



Of the Indian Pediculati, out of a total of 25 species, 

 Only three have been taken by the "Golden Crown," viz 



Halieutaea stellata and H. indica. The last is described as a new species. All the Indian 

 species are, however, represented in the collection of the Indian Museum. The 

 deep-sea forms of which the types are in this collection are fully described either in 

 Col. Alcock's Descriptive Catalogue of Deep-Sea Fishes in the Indian Museum, or in 

 Capt. Lloyd's appendix,' and are figured in the Illustrations of the Zoology of the 

 R.I. M.S. "Investigator." 



Key to the Indian Families and Genera of Pediculati. 

 I. — Head and bodj^ depressed, more or less disk-like. 

 A. — Gill opening in lower axil of pectoral. 

 Family I, Lophiidae. 

 Genus Lotihiiis. 



' This and other species of Lophiidae which have the second portion of the spinous dorsal obsoles- 

 cent are placed by Ooode and Bean in a new genus Lnphindes : .-see "Oceanic Ichthyology," Bull. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1895, p. 537. 



' .\f:m. Ind. .litis., vol. ii, No. 3 (ifjoo). 



