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109. BATHYANTHIAS ROSBUS. 
Bathyanthias roseus Giinther, Shore-fishes of the- Challenger Exped., 1880, 6, pi. 1, f. B (off Pernam- 
buco, “ 30 or 350 fathoms”). 
Habitat. — Coast of Brazil. 
Etymology. — Boseus, rosy. 
This species is known from a single specimen, inches long. 
Genus XXVII.— CALL ANTHI AS. 
Callanthias Lowe, “ Supplementary Synopsis Madeira Fishes, 76, 1839,” and Fishes of Madeira., 13, 
fig. 3 (paradiscBus —peloritanus). 
Type. — Callanthias paradisceus Lowe = Bodianus peloritanus Cocco. 
Etymology. — /iViAAo?, beautiful ; Anthias, an allied genus. 
This genus differs from Anthias in the absence of armature on the preopercle and 
in the direction of the lateral line. The lateral line, especially elevated in all the mem- 
bers of this group, reaches the extreme in this genus, running along the highest series 
of fully developed scales and disappearing under the last dorsal ray. 
But two species of this interesting genus are as yet known : Callanthias peloritanus 
and Callanthias allporti Gunther, from Australia. 
ANALYSIS OF EUROPEAN SPECIES OF CALLANTHIAS. 
a. Body rather elongate, compressed, the outlines of the back and belly nearly parallel; anterior pro- 
file blunt ; interorbital space broad and fiat ; supraoccipital crest high ; eye large, 2f in head ; 
maxillary narrow, scaly, in head ; mouth oblique, the lower jaw included ; snout very short, 
half length of eye; teeth as in Anthias anthias-, preorbital very narrow; preopercle entire; 
gill-rakers long, slender, close-set, X 20 ; scales large; head everywhere scaly except on front 
of preorbital; lateral line ascending abruptly in front, running very close to the edge of the 
back, on the first row of scales ; lateral line ceasing under last rays of soft dorsal, covering 
about 23 scales ; dorsals subequal, the first two or three shorter ; about the fifth soft ray of dor- 
sal elongate, often reaching caudal; aual spines slender, graduated, the soft rays subequal; 
caudal deeply forked, the lobes attenuate, the upper the longer; pectorals short, IJ in head; 
ventrals moderate, reaching anal. Color rose-red, paler below ; throat pearly white ; opercles 
and spot before pectoral pearly; dorsal and anal yellow, tinged with rose at base and tips; 
caudal scarlet, the borders and tips yellow; other fins reddish. Depth, about Sin length ; head, 
3j-. D. X (or XI), 9 ; A. Ill, 9 or 10. Scales, 38 Peloritanus, 110. 
110. CALLANTHIAS PELORITANUS. 
(Bird-of- Paradise-fish ; Imperador do Alto.) 
Bodianus peloritanus Cocco, “Giornale Sci. Sicilia, Palermo, 1829, 138” ("Madeira). 
Callanthias peloritanus Gunther, I, 87 (Madeira). 
Anthias buphthalmos Bonaparte, Faun. Ital.,Pe8ci, about 1839. 
Callanthias paradiswus Lowe, “ Suppl. Syn. Mad. Fishes, 76, 1839” (Madeira) ; Lowe, Fishes Madeira, 
13 (Madeira). 
Habitat. — Mediterranean ; coasts of Spain ; Madeira. 
Etymology. — Peloritanus, perhaps from Peloris, a genus of mollusks. 
This species is known to us through the plate and very full description of Lowe, 
and also from a specimen (24601, M. 0. Z) from Messina in the museum at Cambridge. 
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