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edgings of brown, producing a semblance to reticulation, or to spottings 

 by drops of liquid; 7 streaks of brown radiate from the eye; as in A. 

 tigris, they are continued upon the head and down toward the ventrals; 

 a large spot of black, white-edged, a little larger than the orbit, ^ on 

 the fin and ^ on the muscles of the body, occupies the space between 

 the eighth and the tenth rays of the soft dorsal fin; the light areas vary 

 in intensity, and lie close together over nearly the whole of body and fins ; 

 belly lighter, with faint indications of lines of brownish, radiating from 

 the head ; caudal with oblique transverse cloudings of brownish ; hind- 

 most light. The color in life was probably reddish or yellowish. 

 Secured off Key West, in about 50 fathoms. A young individual, of less 

 than an inch, taken opposite Havana, is of lighter gray, and has a 

 large ocellus, of light color in the center, between the black one at the 

 base of the dorsal and the upper end of the humerus. There are small 

 cutaneous fringes on the flanks. (Garmun.) (radiosua, rayed.) 

 Antennarius radiosus, GARMAN, Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. Iowa Univ. 1896, 85, pi. 1, off Key 

 West, in 50 fathoms. (Coll. C. C. Nutting.) 



1062. CHAUNAX, Lowe. 



Chaunax, Lo./B, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., ill, 1846, 339 (pictus). 



Head very large, depressed, cuboid. Mouth large, subvertical; jaws 

 and palate with bands of small teeth. Skin with small, sharp spines. 

 Spinous dorsal reduced to a small tentacle above the snout, retractile into 

 a groove ; soft dorsal moderate, low ; anal short ; ventrals small. Gills 2 ; 

 no pseudobranchire. Muciferous channels very conspicuous, the lateral 

 line prominent, undulate; another series of mucous tubes extending from 

 lower jaws to axil; still another extends backward from snout and maxil- 

 lary to a point behind eye, when it ceases, uniting with a vertical line 

 which extends from the lateral line to the lower line ; these lines thus 

 inclose a quadrate area on the cheek. Gill opening small, well behind 

 pectoral under front of soft dorsal. Deep seas, (xavra^, one who gapes.) 



a. Dorsal rays 11 ; anal 5 ; depth 2 in length. PICTUS, 3107. 



aa. Dorsal rays 13; anal 7; depth 2 in length. NUTTLNGII, 3108. 



3107. CHAUNAX PICTUS, Lowe. 



Headli; depth 2|. D. I, 11; A. 5; P. 11; V. 4; C.7. Rostral tentacle 

 short, pedicellate; muciferous channels appearing as chain-like rows of 

 pits. Bright orange above; sides rosy; fins vermilion. Deep waters of 

 the Atlantic; recorded from Madeiro, Soudan, Cape Verdes, Barbados, 

 off Rhode Island, and elsewhere in the Gulf Stream, in 130 to 428 fathoms. 

 A similar species (Chaunax fimbriatus) , regarded by Giinther as the same, 

 occurs in the Japan Seas, Bay of Bengal and the Fiji Islands, (pictus, 

 painted.) 



Chaunax pictus, LOWE, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1846, 339, Camera de Lobos, Madeira; 

 GUNTHEE, Cat., m, 200, 1861 ; GOODE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1880, 470 ; JORDAN & GILBERT, 

 Synopsis, 847, 1883 ; GOODE & BEAN, Oceanic Ichthyology, 487, fig. 398, 1896. 

 ? Chaunax flnibriatus, HILGENDORF, Sitzber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde 1879, 80, Sea of Japan. 

 ? Chaunax nuttingii, GARMAN, Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist, Iowa Univ. 1896, 85, pi. in, fig. 2, near 

 Sand Key Light, Florida, in 120 fathoms. (Coll. C. C. Nutting.) 



