OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 335 



Tail pointed. Colour, pale reddish yellow, with a narrow black 

 axillary spot. 



This species was also taken at Darnley Island. 



Family Batrachid.e. 

 80. — Batrachus Diemensis. 



Batrachoides Diemensis, Lesneur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phil. 3, 

 1823, p. 402. 



Batrachus quadrispinis, Cuv. and Val. 12, p. 487. 



,, Diemensis, Richards, Ann. Nat. Hist. 10, p. 352 ; 



Voy. Ereb. and Terr., Fishes, p. 17, pi. 8, fig. 1-2; Bleek, Tim., 

 p. 168. 



Taken at Cape Grenville, and generally throughout Torres i 

 Straits. 



81. — Batrachus Dussumieri. 



Cuv. and Val. 12, p. 474, pi. 367. 



One specimen, which we believe may be this species, was taken 

 at Darnley Island, but it does not much resemble the figure given 

 in Cuvier and Valencienne's plates. 



82. — Batrachus dubius. 



White, Voy. New South Wales, p. 265 ; Richards, Voy. Ereb. 

 and Terr., Fishes, p. 16, pi. 10. 



One specimen from Sue Island, Torres Straits. 







Family Pediculati. 

 83. — Antennarius urophthalmus. 



Chironectes caudimaculatus, Richards, Voy. Ereb. and Terr., 

 Fishes, p. 125, pi. 60, fig. 8, 9. 



Antennarius urophthalmus, Bleek, Natuurk. Tydschr. Mdell. 

 Ind. 2, p. 488 and 15, p. 237. 



One specimen, Darnley Island. 



