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This species is distinguished by the trifid bulb and the long 

 first dorsal ray, near twice as long as the second and quite as 

 long as the caudal, bv the high nape, by the large third dor- 

 sal ray, much larger and more swollen than the second, and 

 by the coloration. The eye is very small. The black centres 

 of the largest of the ocelli are smaller than the eye. Besides 

 the ocellus on the soft dorsal that on the anal and the three 

 forming a triangle on the caudal, there are others scattered 

 over the caudal and other fins, and over the sides of the body. 

 Below the eye on the cheek and under the chin and the chest 

 the spots are little more than black dots. Over the sides a 

 specimen in hand, the type of A. corallinns Poey, is freckled 

 with lighter rounded spots. Behind the pectoral on the side 

 there is a small ocellus with a black center. On each side in 

 the same position, a short distance above the pectoral there is 

 a brown ocellus, larger than the orbit, in the center of which 

 there is a white dot. A brown streak passes back from the 

 upper part of the orbit and curves down toward the anal 

 ocellus; another passes back from the middle of the eye and 

 curves down toward the pectoral; and a third below the third 

 dorsal spine runs down and then forward toward the lower 

 end of the maxillary. The forehead is comparatively narrow; 

 behind the second dorsal ray the bare space is hardly large 

 enough to receive the bait. 



It may be stated here that the species A. scaber C V. and 

 A. tigris Poey are closely allied, but if placed side by side the 

 squamation and filaments suffice to distinguish them, great 

 similarity in color notwithstanding. A. scaber has coarser 

 scales, with shorter, rougher spines and the scales are farther 

 apart; and the cutaneous flaps appear on the body much as 

 figured bv Cuvier. On A. tigris there are few of the cutane- 

 ous appendages, the scales are closer together, the spines are 

 longer and more slender, giving rise to an appearance more 

 like velvet, and the head and body are more compressed. 



Antennarius nuttingii sp. n. Plate 11. 



D. 3+12; A. 7; V. 5; P. 11; C. 9. 



In form this species is shorter, more massive anteriorly, and 



