Pediculati.

Head and anterior part of the body very large, without scales. Teeth in cardiform or villiform bands. The spinous dorsal either composed of a few more or less isolated spines, or entirely absent. Ventrals jugular, with four or five soft rays, absent in Ceratias; the carpal bones prolonged, forming a sort of arm for the pectorals. Gill-opening reduced to a small foramen, situated in or near the axil. Gills two and a half, three, or three and a half; pseudobranchiæ absent.

Carnivorous fishes, inhabiting the seas of the temperate and tropical regions.

Brachionichthys hirsutus. Tasmanian coast.

Saccarius lineatus. New Zealand coast.

Antennarius marmoratus. Australian coast.

——urophthalmus. Australian coast.