FISHES OF THE BERMUDA ISLANDS. 



LIST OF SPECIES. 



MALTHEIDiE. 



MALTHB YESPERTILIO, {Linn.) Cuv., subspecies VESPEETILIO. 



Devil-fish. 



LopUusfronte unieorni, Linne, Mus. Ad. Fried. 1, 1754, 55.— Artedi. Syn. Pise. 1788, 88. 



Guaperva, Brown, Hist. Jamaica, 1756, 457, pi. 48, f. 3. 



Bana piscatrix americana, Seba, Locup. Rer. Nat. Thes. Desc. 1, 1758, 118, tab. Ixxiv, f. 2. 



LopUus vespertilio, LinnJ;, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1, 1758, 238, ed. 12, 1, 1766, 402.— Gmelin, 

 Linn. Syst. Nat. 1, 1783, 480 (jmrtim).— Block, Iclith. iv, 1787, 8, taf. cs. (on 

 a drawing by Plumier).— Schneider, Bloch, Syst. Ichth. 1801, 140.— Lace- 

 pfeDE, Hist. Nat. Poiss. 1, 1798, 302-315. 



Maltlie vespertiUo, Cuvier, Eegne Aniin. 1817.— MCller & Troschel in Schoraburgk, 

 Hist. Barbados, 1848, 678.— GCnther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mns. iii, 1861, 200 {par- 

 fim).— PoEY, Mem. ii, 1861, 382 ; Eep. Fis.-Nat. Cuba, ii, 1888, 406.— Cope, 

 Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 1870, 480.— Gill in Baird's Rep. Sea Fisheries of New 

 England, 1873, 792. 



Malthea vespertilio, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. Poiss. xii, 1837, 440.— Storer, Syn. Fish. N. 

 Amer. 1846, 131.— Gill, Cat. Fish. E. Coast N. Amer. 1861, 47.— Lutken, Nat. 

 Foren. Vid. Med. 1865, 5, 



Maltkcea vespertilio, DeKay, New York Fauna, Fish, 1842, 452. 



A single specimen of this species was noticed in the collection of Mr. 

 John T. Bartram, of Stocks Point, Saint George's Island. It is recorded 

 from various poiuts iu the West Indies. Dr. Giinther has united all 

 described species, except Malthe cuhifrons, Eichardson, under the name 

 Maltlie vespertilio. The species thas limited is very variable in respect 

 to the length of snout, which in some individuals equals one-sixth of 

 the entire length of the fish, in others reduced to one-twentieth or one 

 twenty-fifth. Professor Lutken recognizes three species within these 

 limits ; Malthe vespertilio^ represented by the synonymy given above ; 



