580 DESCEIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF AUSTRALIAN FISHES, 



small and irregular spots on the cheeks, inside the mouth and the 

 tongue covered with white tubercles. 



South Australia. 



441. Antennarius subrotundatus, Casteln. 



Eesearches Fishes of Australia, p. 25. 



Body high ; upper profile circular, lower very convex, skin 

 covered with rough asperities ; tentacle of the snout terminating 

 in a short linear filament ; the second and third dorsal spines 

 about equal and very thick, and covered with asperities ; all the 

 fins immaculate. Body light yellowish-grey, with a double series 

 of oceUated spots on each side of the body, some of them visible 

 on the belly. An irregular whitish ring on the base of the tail ; 

 no cutaneous tentacles on the body. 



Port Walcott, West Australia (Castelnau). 



442. Antennarius asper, n. sp. 



The first dorsal spine slender, ringed with black, much longer 

 than the second and terminating in a fringed knob, the next two 

 prominent and spinose. Skin very rough and spiny. Colour 

 yellow, spotted rather densely all over with brown ; about the 

 middle of the base of the dorsal fin a rather large, rounded, black 

 spot in the centre of a yellow space. Tail with three series of 

 transparent black-edged spots on the membrane between the rays, 



Darnley Island (Chevert Exped.) 



Mistaken by Dr. AUeyne and myself for ^. iirophthahms. (Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, Vol. I., p. 335. 



Family XXV. COTTINA. 



A bony stay for the angle of the prseoperculum, which is armed ; 

 the bone arising from the infraorbital ring. Body naked or 

 covered with ordinary scales, or incompletely cuirassed with 



