Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2717 



Chironectes pictus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xn, 393, 1837, Surinam. 



Chironectes tumidus, CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xn, 397, 1837, "Cabinet 

 du Roi," Sargasso Sea. (Coll. Peron.) 



Chironectes arcticus, DUBEN & KOREN, Kong. Vet. Akad. Abh. Stockholm 1844, 72, Vadso, 

 Norway, from a specimen carried northward in Sargassum; the only European rec- 

 ord ; fide COLLETT. 



Antennarius marmoratus, GIJNTHER, Cat., in, 185, 1861; in part; not of Cuvier. 



Ohironectes Icevigatut, DE KAY, N. Y. Fauna : Fishes, 165, pi. 27, fig. 83, 1842 ; not of CUVIER. 



8094. FTEROPHRYNE GIBBA (Mitchill). 



Garman refers to this species certain specimens obtained in Gulf weed 

 about Key West and the Tortugas. These resemble P. liistrlo, but " differ 

 markedly in certain respects. The bait 011 the first dorsal spine, for in- 

 stance, is bulbous and covered with slender fleshy filaments in our indi- 

 viduals, but in P. histrio it is bifurcate. P. yibbus is fairly represented by 

 Cuvier, 1817, in his Chironectes Icvviyatus. The formula for the individuals 

 in hand is D. Ill, 12; A. 7; V.5; P. 10; C. 9." (Garman.) West Indies, 

 north to Key West and the Tortugas ; not examined by us ; probably com- 

 mon, but hitherto confounded with P. Ms trio, (gibbus, gibbous.) 



Lophius gibbus, MITCHILL, Trans. Lit. and Phil. Soc. N. Y. 1815, 1, pi. 4, f. 9, off St. Croix, 



Lat. 22 N., Long. 64 W. (Coll. Dr. John D. Jaques.) 

 Ohironectes Icevigatus, CUVIER, M6m. du Mus., in, 423, pi. 16, fig. 1, 1817, South Carolina 



(Coll. Bosc) ; CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xn, 399, 1837. 

 Pterophryne Icevigata, GILL, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 90. 

 ? Chironectes sonntagii,* Baron J. W. VON MULLER, Reisen in den Vereinigten Staaten, 



Canada und Mexico, Band 1, 180, 1864, in floating seaweed ; no exact locality stated. 

 Pterophrynoides gibbus, GARMAN, BuJl. Iowa Lab. Nat. Hist. 1896, 81. 



1061. ANTENNARIUS, Lacdpede. 



Antennarius (COMMERSON) LACEPEDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss., i, 421 , 1798 (chironectes) . 

 Histrio, FISCHER, Zoognosia, 78, 1813 (histrio, etc.). (No type; includes all known Anten- 



nam'idce; description transposed with that of Lophius by error.) 

 Chironectes, CUVIER, Regne Animal, Ed. 2, vol. II, 252, 1829 (chironectes) ; preoccupied in 



mammals, Illiger, 1811. 



Body oblong, compressed, very deep through the occipital region, taper- 

 ing behind,; 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 spiimles, these usually forked, and numerous 

 fleshy slips. First dorsal spine developed as a small rostral tentacle; 



* The following is the substance of the long account of P. sonntagii (Von Miiller) : 

 " D. II, 10 to 12 ; P. 10 or 11 ; C. 6 to 7 (' Strahlenpaare ') ; B.6. Head and body slightly 

 compressed; dorsal spines like little horns, covered over and over with spinous" growths. 

 Mouth wide, with numerous rows of small teeth ; throat and belly with many fleshy slips. 

 Pectorals produced on a long peduncle like the flippers of a tortoise; ventrals similar, 

 but formed more like feet ; anal fin like a rudder. Color clear yellowish green, with green- 

 ish brown stripes ; a broad dark stripe across breast to root of pectoral; another on the 

 back ; another on the side, running backward in the form of a hammer, paler at last on 

 lower part of back ; several stripes and spots, more or less dusky, on the tail and other 

 extremities- on the soft underside to the anal intense reddish golden yellow spots; be- 

 tween the dark streaks and the yellow ground color of the body are often white shades 

 and markings ; eye fiery orange. Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico ; living in floating 



This species must be a Pterophryne, and it is not evidently different from Pterophryne 

 gibba. 



