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backwards; vomer and palatines with patches of sharp pointed small teeth; tongue large, broad, thick; 
nostrils with elevated fleshy rims, rather close together near end of snout; interorbital space broad, 
elevated; bait reaching to middle of second spine, bifid and rather broad at extremity; first spine 
large, very rough, adnate by membrane, 2.6 in head; second spine larger, similar, 1.75; eighth dorsal 
ray 1.5; anal rounded, third ray 1.7; caudal rounded, median rays longest, about 1.2; pectoral broad, 
upper median rays longest, fourth 2; ventrals small, rounded; caudal peduncle compressed, its depth 
2.35; pores on head and upper side of back with rough excrescences, those which form lateral line 
running back below posterior part of soft dorsal, then obliterated; skin rather rough velvety, fins 
also rough. 
Color in alcohol (No. 554) grayish brown, more or less marbled with dusky; a ragged brown 
blotch from between second dorsal spine and soft dorsal and a pale ocellus above pectoral; margin of 
vertical fins whitish, submarginal portions mottled with white, black, and gray; a large black ocellus 
on basal portion of posterior dorsal and anal rays; a black ocellus above base of pectoral; belly and 
lower side spotted all over with black. 
Described from an example (No. 554) taken at Honolulu. We have examined also 1 specimen 
5.1 inches long collected by Doctor Jenkins at Honolulu, where the Albatross obtained yet another 
example. 
Ciiironectes leprosus Eydoux & Souleyet, Zool. Voy. Bonite, I, 187, pi. 5, fig. 3, 1841, Sandwich Islands. 
Antennarius multiocellatus var. leprosa, Gunther, Cat., Ill, 195, 1861 (Sandwich Island^). 
Vhironectes rubrofuscus Garrett, Proc. Cal. Ac. Nat. Sci., Ill, 1868, 64, Sandwich Islands. 
Antennarius rubrofuscus, Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23, 1903), 511 (Honolulu); Snyder, op. cit. (Jan. 
19, 1904), 537 (Honolulu). 
434. Antennarius laysanius Jordan & Snyder. Plate 63. 
Mouth large, the width equal to length of maxillary, 4.5 times diameter of eye; “ bait” long and 
slender, reaching middle of second spine when depressed, the tip with a small knob bearing filaments, 
one of which is lanceolate, seven-eighths the length of rod, the others short and thread-like. First spine 
inserted above anterior edge of orbit, reaching base of second spine when depressed, connected 
posteriorly with head by a thin membrane, the free edge of which is convex, the tip of spine with a 
movable joint; second spine equal in length to maxillary, immovably and closely attached throughout 
its length to the occiput and back, the tip with a small, movable joint; soft dorsal not connected 
with second spine by a membrane or crest, separated from the caudal by a space equal in length to 2.5 
times diameter of eye, the last rays when depressed not reaching base of caudal; rays 12, the longest 
(posterior) equal in length to distance between base of bait and tip of first spine when depressed; 
posterior margin of fin rounded; anal when depressed reaching base of caudal, rays 7, about equal in 
length to those of dorsal; caudal rounded; gill-opening at base of pectoral. 
Skin hispid with minute, simple, and bilobed prickles; upper half of eye covered with thick 
prickly skin; minute, filamentous, dermal appendages scattered about over the sides and back, 
especially prominent below dorsal spines and fin, none on ventral surface. 
Color in spirits, yellowish white, densely clouded with dusky; a small ocellus midway between 
base of pectoral and origin of soft dorsal, many small black spots scattered about on breast and belly, 
an oblong black spot half as large as eye on posterior half- of soft dorsal, a row of black spots along 
edge of dorsal fin, a large one On base of anal and 2 near border of fin, caudal with a few spots as large 
as pupil; dorsal, caudal, and anal narrowly edged with white; pectorals white below, dusky above; 
chin dusky, with an indistinct light ocellus; tongue with small black spots. Known only from the 
type (No. 8439, Stanford University Museum), a specimen 3.8 inches long collected at Laysan Island 
by Mr. Max Schlemmer. 
Antennarius laysanius Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVII, 1904, 947, Laysan Island. 
435. Antennarius big'ibbus (Lacepecle). 
Head 2.25 in length; depth 1.5; eye 4 in head; snout 5; maxillary 2.2; width of mouth 2.2; D. 
I-I-12; A. 7; L J . 11; V. 5. 
Body deep, compressed, back elevated; head deep, with blunt conic profile in front, somewhat 
oblique above; snout broad, obtuse, conic, smooth; mouth broad, very oblique, nearly vertical; teeth 
in jaws small, sharp pointed; lips rather thin; mandible large, slightly projecting; eye small, high, 
