72 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Dorsal iii 20; 1st dorsal triangular, middle spine length of head; 

 soft dorsal higher than spinous, longest rays about J length of head. 

 Pectorals f length of head, reaching to anal ; no foramen in the axil. 

 Ventrals f length of head. Anal 14. Caudal truncate. A series of 

 pores along the hody, with a slight vertical fold of skin on each. 



Colour (of preserved specimen), yellowish, dotted with faint dark 

 spots and with 3 or 4 faint dark cross-bands ; tips of dorsal and anal 

 r~ays brown ; pectorals spotted with brown in irregular cross bands. 



One specimen, 142 mm. in length, procured by the Cape Govern- 

 ment trawler P. Faure (s.) off the Natal coast, in 54 fins. ; Port 

 Natal, W. by N. 6^ miles. 



BATRACHUS DIEMENSIS, Lesueuv. 

 Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. iii. p. 402, 1823. 



Teeth in 3 rows anteriorly on each jaw, a single series laterally; 

 a band on vomer and palatines. Depth of body 4 times in total 

 length excluding caudal, length of head 2f- times; head broad, its 

 width nearly equalling its length. Longitudinal diameter of eye 

 3 times in length of head, vertical diameter 3f times length of head 

 and 1J times as long as snout ; width of bony ridge between the 

 the eyes narrow, 8| times in length of head ; maxillary reaches to 

 vertical of middle of eyes, lower jaw projects ; no tentacles above 

 the orbits ; gill-covers with 4 spines, 2 of which belong to the oper- 

 culum and 2 to the sub-operculum ; anterior nostrils with a bunch 

 of filaments on each ; no tentacles on snout, which is short, obtuse, 

 and its upper border parabolic ; a row of large open pores along 

 lower edge of mandibles, on preorbital, across opercles, and round 

 orbits. 



Dorsal iii 20; 1st dorsal triangular, middle spine nearly -^ length 

 of head. Pectorals |- length of head, reaching to anal, no foramen 

 in the axil. Ventrals with outer ray much longer than inner, taper- 

 ing, J length of head. Anal 16. Caudal truncate. Loose folds of 

 skin on head and cheeks, and on the body, especially along base 

 of anal fin. 



Colour (of preserved specimen), brown ; spinous dorsal dark, with 

 a dark patch on anterior soft rays ; pectorals covered with minute 

 dark spots forming irregular bars. 



One specimen, 45 mm. in length, procured by the Cape Govern- 

 ment trawler P. Faure (s.) off the Natal coast, in 50 fms. ; 

 Umhlangakulu Eiver, NW. by N. 7J miles. 



