880 PIIOCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.xxiv. 
6. HALIEUT^^A Cuvier and Valenciennes. 
Halieutsca Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hiat. Nat. Poiss., XII, 1837, p. 455 
{siellaUis). 
Head very large, broad, depressed, its outline nearly circular; cleft 
of mouth wide, horizontal; jaws with small cardiform teeth; no teeth 
on vomer or palatines. Skin everywhere covered with s<rnall, stellate 
spines. Forehead with a transverse bony ridge, beneath which i^ a 
tentacle, retractile into a cavity, the only rudiment of the spinous 
dorsal fin; soft dorsal and anal very short, far back. Gills 2i, the 
anterior gill arch without lamina?. Branchiostegals 5; vertebrae 17. 
{aXisvTtjg^ a tisher.) 
II. HALIEUTiEA STELLATA (Vahl). 
AKAGUTSU (RED SHOE). 
Lophius steUata Vahl, Skr. NaUirh. Kjobenh., IV, p. 214, pi. in, figs. 3, 4, 
1797; Japan. 
Halieutsea stellata CvviER and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XII, p. 456, pi. 
cccLxvi; China. — Schlec4el, Fauna Japonica, 1846, p. 160, pi. lxxii; Nagasaki. — 
Bleeker, Amboyna et Ceram., p. 279. — Gunther, Cat. Fish., Ill, 1861, p. 203; 
China. — Nvstrom, Kong. Svensk. Ak., 1887, p. 37; Nagasaki. — Ishikawa, Prel. 
Cat., 1897, p. 36; Boshu, Tokyo, Ajiro, Izu. 
Lophius faujas Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., I, 1798, p. 318; museum of the Hague. 
Lojihius muricatus 8b AW, Gen. Zool., V, 1805, p. 382, pi. ci-xii (after Lacepede). 
Disk circular, with a groove posteriorly; wrists, with transversely 
projecting pectoral iins, forming angles at the beginning of the groove; 
diameter of disk three-fourths of length, exclusive of caudal tin; 
head measured to gill opening If in length; eye large, oblique, dorsal 
half covered by an extension of interorbital skin; mouth oblique, semi- 
inferior; gape 4 in length; a triangular cavity above mouth containing 
a stout tentacle, consisting of two equally divided lobes, with thin 
fleshy flaps at tip; height of cavit}' hardly less than its base, which is 
over 2 in eye; body tapering rapidly from axil toward caudal fin. 
Vent placed a little in advance to angle of wrist; distance from vent 
to root of caudal fin 2f in length. Vent to anal fin 2 in caudal fin; 
D. 5; A. 3; P. 12; V. 5; C. 8 or 9; length of caudal fin 3i in body; 
pectoral fin 3^; ventral fin 6i; cranial region raised; skin rather firm; 
dorsal surface covered with rather high, simple, straight spines, except 
the horny edge of disk and side of body, which are fringed with bony 
prominences, each terminating in three, four, or five spinules; inter- 
orbital space slightly depressed, free from spines; occipital region 
highest, covered with low spines, depressing gradually toward body; 
skin on belly and ventral side of head granular to touch, free from 
spines, except the bony edge of disk and mandible, which are covered 
with low l>lunt spines. 
Color uniformly light yellowish, with slight brownish tinge, doubt- 
