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also slender, longer than the other, and rather arched ; it is 
ended, as is the first, by a tuberculous knob, and bears also 
cutaneous tentacles. The dorsal is formed of thirteen strong, 
flexible rays; these are ended by filaments, and are considerably 
longer than the membranes; they all bear filaments and 
tubercles on their length ; this fin extends to about one-half 
of the caudal and it begins over the insertion of the pectorals. 
Caudal long, of nine strong rays, which are rather longer than 
their membranes ; on its upper and inferior edge it has a line 
of 'filaments ; the anal is formed of eight rays ; the pectorals 
are tuberculous, and have eleven rays ; the ventrals are placed 
rather in front of the pectorals and have five rays ; in all these 
fins the rays are longer than their membranes. 
The lower parts of the body, and particularly the throat, 
are covered with long fleshy appendices ; the latter shows also 
numerous tubercles. 
The fish is of a light brown with several very large black 
blotches on the body, but none on the fins, nor on the lower 
parts of the body : some silvery white, small and irregular 
spots on the cheeks, inside of the mouth and tongue, covered 
with white tubercles. 
This sort seems nearly allied to chironectes vittatus, Rich. 
(Ereb. & Terror) that Dr. Gunther unites with so many 
others under the name of Marmoratus, 
The genus I here mention was formed by Cuvier in his 
Regne animal under the name of Chironectes, and this must, I 
think, be adopted, as the one of A ntennarius was not published 
at that time, and, in fact, is only a manuscript name given by 
Commerson. 
CRISTICBPS SPLENDBNS. 
The upper profile is very converse, and gibbous over the 
head; its height is contained a little over four times in the 
total length ; the length of the head three and two-thirds m 
the same ; eye five times in the length of the head ; the snout 
is a little longer than the diameter of the eye; the width of 
the interorbital space is equal to the vertical diameter of the 
eye ; a rather long quadridigitated tentacle on the nostril, and 
