. The fishes of North Carolina . Fishes. SYSTEMATIC CATALOGUE OF FISHES. 401 small; the caudal and ventrals are well developed, the latter well separated; the pectorals are large and have a strong, elongated base. The species are rather numerous, and fall into about 8 genera; some are found in very deep water, others, mostly American, occur coastwise. Genus OGCOCEPHALUS Fisher. Bat-fishes. Very curiously shaped fishes, with broad, much flattened head and relatively small, tapering body; forehead elongated into a process which overhangs the small mouth; eyes large, lateral; bands of fine teeth
. The fishes of North Carolina . Fishes. SYSTEMATIC CATALOGUE OF FISHES. 401 small; the caudal and ventrals are well developed, the latter well separated; the pectorals are large and have a strong, elongated base. The species are rather numerous, and fall into about 8 genera; some are found in very deep water, others, mostly American, occur coastwise. Genus OGCOCEPHALUS Fisher. Bat-fishes. Very curiously shaped fishes, with broad, much flattened head and relatively small, tapering body; forehead elongated into a process which overhangs the small mouth; eyes large, lateral; bands of fine teeth on jaws, vomer, and palatines; skin covered with small, bony tubercles; number of gill-arches ; air-bladder and pyloric cceca absent; dorsal and anal fins minute; pectorals large, horizontal, surmounting posterior angles of head; ventrals widely separated. Small, shoal- water fishes, inhabiting the West Indies, 2 species ranging as far north as our South Atlantic coast. {Ogcocephalus, hook-head.) 347. OGOOOEPHALUS VESPERTILIO (Linnaeus). Bat-fish. I/phius ve spertilio Linnseua, Syatema NaturK, ed. x, i, 236, 1758; American Seas. Ooococephalus vesperlilia, Jordan & Evermann, 1898, 2737, pi. cccxcii, figs. 958, 958a, Ogcocephalus vespertUio. Dorsal view. Diagnosis.—Body much flattened, rather stout, the greatest depth .2 total length; head much wider than long, the length .5 total length; rostral process very long but of variable length; averaging .12 of head; mouth small, the maxillary extending beyond pupil; teeth in villiform bands; gill-slits very short, about diameter of pupil; skin thickly beset with bony tubercles; dorsal rays 4, the fin- inserted nearer to gUl-openings than to base of caudal; anal rays 4; pectorals directed outward and backward, their posterior margin extending beyond dorsal fin; ventrals long, horizontal. Color: above grayish brown with black spots, below coppery; dorsal plain; anal with dusky margin; caudal and pectorals white with a bro
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