576 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOatTE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



432. Brachionichthys politus, Eichards. 



Chironectes politus, Eichards., Voy. Erebus and Terror, p. 16, pi. 



9, %. 3. 



D. 1. 2/17. A. 9. 0. 9. P. 9. V. 1/4. 



I have not seen a complete description of this Fish, but the 

 skin is quite smooth, showing no roughness nor inequalities under 

 a lens. It cannot therefore, as Dr. Gunther suggests, be identical 

 with B. Icevis, described above. 



Port Arthur. 



Genus Antennarius, Commers. 



Head very large, high, compressed ; cleft of the mouth nearly 

 vertical ; jaws and palate armed with cardiform teeth. Body 

 naked or covered with minute spines. The spinous dorsal fin is 

 composed of three isolated spines, the first modified into a tentacle 

 placed above the snout. The soft dorsal of moderate length, 

 longer than the anal. No cleft behind the fourthgill ; only half 

 of the anterior branchial arch provided with lamellae. No 

 pseud obranchise. Stomach very wide ; no pyloric appendages, 

 an air-bladder. 



Tropical Seas. 



433. Antennariijs marmoratus, Less. 



Gunth. Cat. Fishes III., p. 185.— Journ. Mus. Godeflt., Heft. XI., 

 pi. 100, fig. a. 



Chironectes vittatus, Eichards., Voy. Erebus and Terror, p. 15, pi. 9, 



fig. 3-4. 



D. 3/12. A. 7. P. 10. Vert. 9/9. 



The anterior dorsal spine is short, terminating in a small knob, 

 with a minute tentacle attached to it, sometimes it is very short 

 or entirely absent. The last dorsal extends beyond the root of 

 the caudal. Head and body with cutaneous tentacles, those on 



