igio.] N. Annandale and J. T. Jenkins : Pledognathi and Pediculati. 17 



back ; two or three transverse lines on upper part of each side behind the pectoral ; 

 several short vertical lines beneath the eye. Ventral surface cream-coloured. 



II.— Suborder PEDICULATI. 

 LIST OF THE PEDICULATI OF INDIAN SEAS. 



Fam. LoPHiiDAE. 

 r. Lophius indiens. f§ 



2. ,, gracilimanus. f § 



3. ,, mutilus.t§' 



4. ,, lugubris.t§ 



5. ,, triradiatus.t§ 



Fam. Ceratiidae 



6. Lophodolus indiens. t§ 



7. Melanocoetus sp.§ 



8. Ceratias bispinosus.§ 



9. Oneirodes glomerosus.t§ 



Fam. x^ntennariidae. 



10. Chaunax pictus.§ 



11. ,, apus.t§ 



Of the Indian Pediculati, out of a total of 25 species, 20 are deep-sea forms. 

 Only three have been taken by the "Golden Crown," viz., Antennarius hispidus, 

 Halieutaea stellata and H. indica. The last is described as a new species. All the Indian 

 species are, however, re^îresented in the collection of the Indian Museum. The 

 deep-sea forms of which the types are in this collection are fully described either in 

 Col. Alcock's Descriptive Catalogue of Deep-Sea Fishes in the Indian Museum,^ or in 

 Capt. Lloyd's appendix,^ and are figured in the Illustrations of the Zoology of the 

 R.I. M.S. "Investigator." 



Key to the Indian Families and Genera of Pediculati. 

 I. — Head and body depressed, more or less disk-like. 

 A. — Gill opening in lower axil of pectoral. 

 Family I, Lophiidae. 

 Genus Lophius. 



12. 



Antennarius hispidus.* 



13- 



,, nummifer. 



14. 



,, commersonii. 





Fam. MaIvThidae. 



15- 



Malthopsis lutea. t§ 



16. 



,, triangularis. t§ 



17- 



Halieutaea indica.* t§ 



18. 



nigra t§ 



19. 



,, coccinea.|§ 



20. 



stellata.* t§ 



21. 



,, fumosa.f§ 



22. 



Halicmetus ruber. f§ 



23- 



Dibranchus nasutus.t§ 



24. 



,, micropus.f§ 



25- 



,, nudiventer.f§ 



' This and other species of Lophiidae which have the second portion of the spinous dorsal obsoles- 

 cent are placed by Goode and Bean in a new genus Lophiodes : see "Oceanic Ichthyology," Bull. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., 1895, p. 537. 



'^ Mem. Ind. Mus., vol. ii, No. 3 (1909). 



