1849.] Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 1185 



Lesson: Voy. de la Coquille. Poiss. PI. 16, Fig. 2. 



Chironectes marmoratus, Cuv. and Val. XII. 402. 



Chironectes raninus, Richardson, Rep. 1845, 203. 



Chironectes marmoratus, Temm. and Schl. Fauna Jap. Pise. 159, 



LXXXI. Fig. 1. 



Ground colour of back, sides and fins yellow ochre, largely marbled 

 with blackish brown, in which occur single darker spots ; abdomen 

 silvery yellowish-white with brown spots ; the cutaneous filaments of 

 the fins and back blackish, those of the sides pale yellow, those of the 

 abdomen white. Iris pale burnished golden with distant radiating 

 brown lines ; pupil circular, black. 



D 3—12, C 9, A 7, V 5, P 10, Br. VI. 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang. 



New Guinea, Bombay, Japan. 



Total length : 4f inch. 



The body is minutely granulated, and the first dorsal ray is exces- 

 sively slender : it was absent in the larger of two individuals observed 

 at Pinang. 



Antennarius hispidus, (Bloch-Schn.) 



Koehlreuter, N. C. Petrop. X. PI. 8, Fig. 1. 



Lophius hispidus Bloch-Schn, 143, No. 6. 



Lophius striatus, Shaw, Nat. Misc. V. PI. 175. 



Russell XIX. Kappa Mura Moia. 



Lophius histrio, Linne, Russell. 



Chironectes lophotes, Cuvier: Mem. du Mus. III. PI. 17, Fig. 2. 



Chironectes hispidus, Cuv. and Val. XII. 407. 



Pale reddish yellow (nankin-colour), paler on the abdomen; head 

 and back with transversal sooty brown stripes : those of the nape and 

 back nearly transversal or slightly oblique, radiating obliquely down- 

 wards from the eye and from the tail ; all the fins except the ventrals 

 spotted with sooty brown ; first dorsal ray yellowish alternately brown ; 

 the tuft of filaments longitudinally blackish and white ; the few short 

 filaments of the body, the lips, tongue, and cavity of the mouth pale 

 yellowish. Iris pale burnished golden with radiating brown lines ; 

 pupil black, circular. 



D 3—12, C 9, A 7, V 5, P 10, Br. VI. 



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