FISHES OE THE BERMUDA ISLANDS. 



LIST OF SPECIES. 



MALTHEXDiE. 



MALTHE YESPERTILIO, (Linn.) Guv., subspecies VESPERTILIO. 



Devil-fish. 



LopMus fronte unicorni, LlNSds, Mus. AcT. Fried. 1, 1754, 55. — Artedi. Syn. Pise. 1788, 88. 



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



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



Lophius vespertilio, LiNJsiS, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1, 1758, 238, ed. 12, 1, 1766, 402.— Gmelin, 

 Linn. Syst. Nat. 1, 1788, 480 (partim).— Block, Ichth. iv, 1787, 8, taf. ex. (on 

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

 pkde, Hist. Nat. Poiss.-l, 1798, 302-315. 



Halthe vespertilio, Cuvier, Regne Anim. 1817. — MCller & Troschel in Schomburgk, 

 Hist. Barbados, 1848, 678.— Guxther, Cat, Fisb. Brit. Mns. iii, 1861, 200 (par- 

 fiw).— Poey, Mem. ii, 1861, 382 ; Rep. Fis.-Nat. Cuba, ii, 1868, 406.— Cope, 

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

 Erjgland, 1873, 792. 



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

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

 Foren. Vid. Med. 1865, 5. 



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



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

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

 from various points in tbe West Indies. Dr. Gunther has united all 

 described species, except Maltlie cubifrons, Eicbardson, under tbe name 

 MaltJie vespertilio. Tbe species thus 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 j 2lalthe vespertilio, represented by tbe synonymy given above j 



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