372 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.xxiv. 
Body oblong, compressed, very deep through the occipital region, 
tapering l^ehind; breast tumid; mouth rather large, more or less oblique, 
or even vertical; cardiform teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines; eye 
small; skin with small granules or spinules, these usually forked, and 
often with numerous iieshy slips. First dorsal spine developed as a 
small rostral tentacle; second and third dorsal spines strong, covered 
with skin, often with numerous fleshy filaments; soft dorsal high and 
long; anal short and deep; caudal fin rounded, the peduncle free; pec- 
toral fins wide, with a rather wide wrist, at the lower posterior angle 
of which are the very small gill openings; ventral fins short. Fantastic 
looking fishes, often gayly colored; very numerous in warm seas, 
{Antenna, a feeler or tentacle,) 
a. Color brown, with blackish streaks and markings, and without red spots; first 
dorsal spine trifid. 
b. Dorsal fin without large black ocellus at its base just behind its middle; stripes 
on body rather broad and more or less irregular, without the definite arrange- 
ment seen in the next species trideiis, 5. 
bb. Dorsal fin with a single large black ocellus at its base just behind the middle; 
lines on body narrow, forming a regular complicated pattern. scnp^immw-s, 6. 
aa. Color pinkish with a few blood-red spots, besides red streaks and markings; first 
dorsal spine trifid sangnifluus, 7. 
aaa. Color black, with small white specks, and larger jet-black blotches; first dorsal 
spine simple nox, 8, 
5. ANTENNARIUS TRIDENS (Schlegel). 
IZARI-UWO (CRAWLING FISH). 
Chironectes trklens Schlegel, Fauna Japon., 1846, p. 159, \A. lxxxi, figs. 2, 3, 
5; Nagasaki. — Bleeker, Verb, Bat. Gen. Japan, XXV, p. 47; Nagasaki. 
Antennarhis tridens GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish., Ill, 1861, p. 191; China. — Nystrom, 
Kong. Svensk. Vet. Ak., 1887, p. 37; Nagasaki.— Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, 
p. 36; Tokyo, Kagoshima, Ogosahara, Bonin Islands. — Jordan and Snyder, 
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1900, p. 380; Yokohama. 
Head If to 2 in body, 2i in total length. Depth 2i (2i to 2f) in 
body. Snout 5^ in head, 2i in cleft of mouth, which is almost vertical. 
Eye li in snout. 
D, III, 12; A. 7; P, 11; V, 5; C, 9. First dorsal spine 1 in head, 
with trifid tentacle of variable length, the two outer flaps are longer 
and stouter than the middle one, usually as long as the spine or even 
longer. Second spine shorter than the first b^' one-third to one-fourth 
of its height, slightly curved, its filamentous tip, when laid down, 
reaching the same point as that of the first. Third spine rising proxi- 
mal to this point, which is opposite to the posterior edge of the max- 
illary; height of the spine 2i to 2| in depth of body, 3i in head; a 
dermal fold extends posteriorly to the base of soft dorsal. Soft dor- 
sal beginning opposite to the anterior margin of the pectoral fin, its 
height about equal to the anal, its length 1| in head; its last ray does 
