Jordan and Evermann. Fishes of North America. 2723 



light brown, clouded with darker, fins all with round black spots, those 

 of the base of the dorsal somewhat larger than others ; ventrals tipped 

 with black, (scaber, rough.) 



Ohironectes scaber, CUVIEK, M6m. Mus., in, 425, pi. 16, fig, 2, 1817, Martinique (Coll. Plee) ; 



CUVIER & VALENCIENNES, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xn, 412, 1837. 

 Lophius spectrum, GKONOW, Cat. Fish., Ed. Gray, 49, 1854, Antilles; after Lophius acute 



scabra, GRONOW, Zoophyl., 210, 1781. 

 Antennarius scaber, JORDAN, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1889, 652, specimen from Port Castries, 



St. Lucia. 

 Antennarius histrio, GUNTHER, Cat., iv, 188, 1861; not Lophius histrio, LINNAEUS. 



3103. ANTENNARIUS TIGRIS, Poey. 



D. 111-12; A. 7; P. 11. Anterior dorsal spine longer than second, termi- 

 nating in 2 long cutaneous flaps ; third dorsal spine connected with soft 

 dorsal by a broad membrane, the latter terminating at some distance from 

 the caudal, and its last ray not extending to root of caudal if laid back- 

 ward. Skin rough, covered with small spines, without cutaneous fringes. 

 Ground color yellow, with numerous brown spots and streaks, the latter 

 radiating from the eye; dorsal fin irregularly spotted, with a series of 

 large round brown spots. (Poey.) Cuba. Not seen by us. According 

 to Mr. Garman, Antennarius scaber and A. tigris "are closely allied, but if 

 placed side by side the squamation and filaments suffice to distinguish 

 them, great similarity in color notwithstanding. A. scaber has coarser 

 scales, with shorter, rougher spines, the scales are farther apart, and the 

 cutaneous flaps appear on the body much as figured by Cuvier. On A. 

 tigris there are few of the cutaneous appendages, the scales are closer 

 together, the spines are longer and more slender, giving rise to an appear- 

 ance more like velvet, and the head and body are more compressed." 

 (tigris, tiger.) 



Ohironectes tigris, POEY, Memorias, I, 217, pi. 17, fig. 2, 1851, Cuba. 

 Antennarius tigris, GARMAN, Bull. Iowa Lab. Nat. Hist. 1896, 83. 



3104. ANTENNARIUS NUTTINGII, Garman. 



D. 3-}- 12; A. 7'; V. 5; P. 11; C. 9. In form this species is shorter, more 

 massive anteriorly, and less compressed than either A. ocellatus or A. 

 radiosus. A transerve section across the middle of the body is a nearly 

 equilateral triangle. Caudal region short. Head nearly as wide as high; 

 cheeks swollen; forehead rather broad, converging forward on the edges. 

 Occipital concavity wide and deep, free from scales in a wide space below 

 the ends of the first and second dorsal rays, this bare space being appar- 

 ently for the reception of the fleshy bait bulb, which latter has 2 elongate 

 lobes. Snout as long as the orbit, broad, truncate ; chin vertical ; sym- 

 physeal knob prominent. Mouth wide, subvert! cal. Eye small; orbit 

 twice as long, hardly more than the interorbital space. First and 

 second dorsal rays equal in length, not inclusive of the 2 elongate fleshy 

 fringed lobes surmounting the first. The base of the first ray stands for- 

 ward prominently over the mouth, being free for some distance. The 



