382 — Storer’s Synopsis of the Fishes of North America. 
GENUS II. CHIRONECTES, Cuv. 
Head vertically compressed. Three free rays on the summit of the head. 
Mouth cleft more or less vertically ; opening to the gills by a round aperture 
behind the pectorals. ‘Tongue edentate. Intermaxillaries, lower jaw, vomer, 
palatines, and pharyngeals with minute card-teeth. Dorsal long. 
1. Chironectes gibbus, Mitcuitu. 
Pale brown, variegated along the sides with dark yellowish and ruddy, so as to resemble 
some sorts of iron-stones or fractures of ferruginous earth; the deeper dark markings cross 
the dorsal rays obliquely and transversely, and the caudal in concentric curves. Surface of 
the body granulate. Tail rounded, with concentric bars. Posterior portion of the dorsal fin 
rounded. 
D.12. P.10. V.5. A. 7. C.9. Length, 2 inches. 
New York, Mircuinz, Dexay. 
Lophius gibbus, Mouse-fish, Mircuitt, Trans, Lit. and Phil. Soc. of N. Y., 1. pl. 4, fig. 9. 
we uw $3 fe Amer. Month. Mag., 11. p. 325. 
Chironectes gibbus, Gibbous Mouse-fish, DeKay’s Report, p. 164, pl. 24, fig. 74. 
2. Chironectes levigatus, Cuv. 
A dull white, with irregularly distributed dark-brown blotches, or partially formed longi- 
tudinal bands, which are margined with a clear white ; clear white spots upon the abdomen. 
Surface of the body smooth. Posterior portion of the dorsal highest. 
D.11. P.18. V.4. A. 6. C. 8. “Length,'2 inches. 
Massachusetts, Srorer. New York, Dexay. South Carolina, Cuy. 
Chironectes levigatus, Cuv., Mémoires du Muséum, 111. p. 423, pl. 16, fig. 1. 
Le Chironectes uni, Chironectes levigatus, Cuv. et VAL., x11. p. 399. 
Chironectes levigatus, Smooth Chironectes, StorER’s Report, p. 73. 
ub Le Smooth Mouse-fish, DEKay’s Report, p. 165, pl. 27, fig. 83. 
3. Chironectes scaber, Cuv. 
Yellowish brown, with black spots or lines irregularly distributed. Skin rough ; tubercles 
upon the eyebrow, cheeks, and lateral line. The first free ray of the dorsal terminates in 
two long slits or membranous leaves. 
D.(2). B.(@). V.(?); A. (@). ©. (@). Length, (). 
Caribbean Sea, Cuv. 
Le Chironecte rude, Chironectes scaber, Cuv. et VAL., xu. p. 412. 
4. Chironectes ocellatus, Curvy. 
White, with three ocellated dark spots encircled with white ; one at the middle of the 
