52 Zoological Society. 



Fam. Cheironectid^. 

 Gen. Chaunax, Lowe. 



Gen. Char. Corpus suhcubico-oblongum, sufflabile, nudum, cute 

 prcesertim ad ilia ventremque flaccidissima laxa ; antice obeminif 

 postice nbrupte attenuatum subcompressum. Caput osseum mag- 

 num subtetrahedi'um, superne nuchaque latum planatum, utrin- 

 que s. ad genas declive ; oculis lateralibus, spatio interoculari 

 convexo ; ore rictuque amplissimis transversis plagio-plateis s, 

 depressis. Dentes intermaxillares vomerinique palatinique parvi 

 scobinati. Nares simplices {nee pedicellatce nee tubulosfe) . Spi- 

 racula {foramina branchialid) 'postica s. ad ilia pone pinnarum 

 pectoralium axillas. Pinna dorsalis unica ; pectoralibus (pedi- 

 cellatis) carnosis ; ventralibus jugularibus spathulatis carnosis ; 

 analis postica ; caudalis simplex truncata. Cirri, prceter uni- 

 cum infossula internasali, nulli. 



9. Chaunax pictus, Lowe in Trans. Zool. Soc. iii. part 4. p. 340. 



t. 51. 



1 -I- IV 

 D. 11; A. 5; P. 11; V. 4 ; C. ^^ 



Species adhuc unica. Hab. in mari Maderensi. 



I have nothing to add to the full account of this curious fish ahove 

 referred to, except by way of correction to the second paragraph in 

 p. 344, which has been erroneously printed, and should stand thus : 



" Whilst Cheironectes seems its most natural, Halieutcea is its near- 

 est technical ally. iVgreeing with Lophius in the wide transverse 

 mouth, and in the backward position of the breathing orifices in the 

 flanks, but with Cheironectes more in shape, in the granular or velvety 

 roughness of the skin, and in colour ; it differs from both, and ap- 

 proaches Halieutcea, in the absence of crests or ciha on the back, and 

 in the single dorsal fin. In these last two points, and in the rough- 

 ness of the skin, it agrees with HalieutcBa, but differs in its Diodon-like 

 shape, and in the position of the breathing-holes considerably behind, 

 instead of above or before, the axils of the pectoral fins." 



Fam. ScoPELiDJ5. 



» 



Gen. Ph^nodon. 



Gen. Char. Caput magnum compressum, oculis magnis, rostra 

 brevissimo obtuso, rictu magna pone oculos longe diducto, mento 

 subtus ad sijmphysin cirro barbato. Dentes intermaxillares uni- 

 seriati ; anteriores (.5 v. 6 utrinque) validi tenues preelongi la- 

 niarii subrecurvi remoti distincti, extrorsum supra labia invi- 

 cem claudentes ; ossibus palati dentibus minoribus uniseriatis, 

 lingua biseriatis, armatis. Opercula simplicia plana. Corpus 

 elongatum compressum nudum? s. exsquameum; abdomine pune- 

 tis argenteis (ut in Scopelo) seriatis. Linea lateralis recta 

 pinncBquc fere ut in ScovEi^o, pectoralibus brevioribus. 



