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ray, lies the olfactory apparatus in form of a small stalked cup. (See 

 a figure in SCAEPA De Auditu et Olfact. Tab. rv. fig. 3.) This species 

 occurs in the North Sea and in the Mediterranean Sea. Another species 

 from Japan is Lophius setigerus VAHL, SJcrivter of. not. Selskdbet, iv. i, 

 Tab. 3, figs. 5, 6, Faun. Japon., Pise. Tab. 80. 



Malthe (or Malthcea) Cuv. Body scaleless, rough or muricate, 

 anteriorly depressed, broad, posteriorly narrow, conical. Dorsal fin 

 single, remote, with soft rays. (Branchiae two and a half, with 

 first branchial arch naked, and last branchiferous at the anterior 

 surface alone.) Teeth crowded, small in both jaws. 



a) Teeth in vomer and palate-bones none. Anterior part of body in 

 front of pectoral fins circular, larger than trunk or caudal portion. 



Halieutcea VALENC. 



Sp. Halieutcea stellata VALENC., Lophius stdlatus VAHL, 1. 1. figs. 3, 4, Faun. 

 Japon., Pise. Tab. 82 ; from the sea of China and Japan ; when alive deep 

 red ; the body is beset with spines above, which proceed from the skin with 

 three or four ray-like roots. 



&) Teeth in vomer and palate-bones. Anterior part of body in front of 

 pectoral fins cordate or trigonal, running out into a rostrum, with mouth 

 inferior. 



Malthe Cuv., VALENC. 



Sp. Malthcea vespertilio VALENC., Lophius vespertUio L. in part, BLOCH Ichth. 

 Tab. 1 10, Cuv. R. Ani., 6d. ill., Poiss. PI. 85, fig. i ; West Indies, and also 

 some other species, all from the east coast of America, as Malthcea angusta 

 Cuv., Malthcea cubifrons RICHARDSON, Faun. lor. Amer., Pise. PI. 96, of 

 which ROSENTHAL has figured the skeleton, Ichthyot. Taf. Xix. fig. 2, and 

 others, distinguished by VALENCIENNES; CDVIEB et VALENC. Poiss. xn. 

 pp. 450455. 



Batrachus BL., SCHN. (Spec, of Coitus and Gadus L.). Head 

 depressed, broader than trunk. Body naked in some, in some 

 scaly. Teeth conical, in intermaxillary bone thin, small, crowded 

 in a narrow belt, in lower jaw and in palate-bones and vomer larger, 

 with apex rounded. Operculum small, spinose. Dorsal fins two, 

 the first short, with three spinous rays, almost concealed in the 

 skin, the second elongate, with soft rays. Ventral fins narrow, 

 triradiate. 



Toad-fish. These fishes hide in the sand and the muddy bottoms of bays. 

 Species are found in the seas of both hemispheres. The pectoral fins are 

 seated upon short arms, consisting of five (not as in Lophius only of two) 

 carpal bones. The fourth branchial arch is without gills. Most of the 



