792 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



2.-LIST OF SPECIES. 



1.— MALTHEID^B. 



Malthe vespertilio (Linn.) Cnv. — Bat-fish; nose-fish. 



Newfoundland to Florida. 

 Malthe cubifrons Eich. — Box-headed sea-bat. 



Labrador. 

 Malthe notata (Val.) Liitken. — Spotted sea-bat. 



Southern Atlantic coast. 



2.— LOPHILD^. 



Lophius americantjs DeKay. — Bellows-fish (Newport, B. 1.) ; goose- 

 fish (Massachusetts); monk-fish (coast of Maine); also fishing-frog, 

 American angler, sea-devil, &c. 

 Nova Scotia to Cape Hatteras. 



3.— CEEATIID^}. 



Himantolophus grcenlandicus Eeinhardt.— -Tufted frog-fish. 



Greenland. 

 Oneirodes Eschrichtii Liitken. — Eschricht's frog-fish. 



Greenland. 



* 



Ceratias Holbolli Kroyer. — Holboll's frog-fish. 

 Greenland. 



4.— ANTENKAEILDJE. 



Pterophryne laevigata (Cuv.) Gill. — Common frog-fish ; mouse- 

 fish; pescador (Cuba); toad-fish; devil-fish (Bermuda). 

 Pelagic ; accidental on coast. 



5.— OETHAGOEISCLD^. 



Molacanthus nummularis (Walb.) Gill. — Globe-fish. 



Pelagic; accidental on coast. 

 Mola rotunda Cuv. — Sun-fish; pez mola (Cuba). 

 Newfoundland to Cape Hatteras. 



* In giving the occurrence of any species of fish, as from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras, 

 or between other limits, it is not necessarily to be understood that specimens have 

 actually been taken at these extremes, but only at some point between them. They 

 may, however; be looked for at other localities within the same range. 



