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Genus 268. HALIEUTJEA Cuvier & Valenciennes. 
Head very large, broad, depressed, its outline nearly circular; cleft of mouth wide, horizontal; 
jaws with small cardiform teeth; no teeth on vomer or palatines; skin everywhere covered with small 
stellate spines; forehead with a transverse bony ridge, beneath which is a tentacle, retractile into a 
cavity, the only rudiment of the spinous dorsal tin; soft dorsal and anal very short, far back; gills 21, 
the anterior gill-arch without laminae. Branchiostegals 5; vertebrae 17. Pacific Ocean. 
The single Hawaiian species of this genus is fully described in Section II. 
HalieuLva Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XII, 45o, 1S37 ( &t eliding). 
Genus 269. DIBRANCHTJS Peters. 
Head merged in body, very large, much depressed, forming a broadly ovate disk, with margin 
laterally prolonged; cranial portion not elevated; the interorbital area low, narrow, with orbits partly 
superior; supraoral cavity large, protected above by a transverse bony ridge; mouth terminal, hori¬ 
zontal, wide; lower jaw convex; teeth in cardiform bands, none on vomer or palatines; gills 2, no gill- 
rakers, gill-openings small, anterior to pectorals; rostral tentacle retractile, trilobate at tip; skin with 
numerous strong stellate spines above and below, those at margins of disk especially strong, 3-pointed. 
Distinguished from related genera by the reduction of the gills to 2 pairs. 
The 2 Hawaiian species of this genus are fully described in Section II. 
Dibranchus Peters. Monatsber. Kon. Ak. Wiss. Berlin, 1876, 736 ( aUanticus ). 
