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not the slightest doubt that more than one-half of them will prove 

 to be individual varieties. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



a. Skin naked or not very rough. Ocellated spots none. 



* Wliite spots on the belly. 



1. A. marmoratus. 



* * No white spots on the belly. 



2. A. barbatuhis. 



h. Anterior dorsal spine terminating in two spindle-like tentacles. 

 3. A. histrio. 4. A. tigris. 



c. Ground-colour light, densely marbled and variegated with darker ; 



ocellated spots none. Skin rough. Anterior dorsal spine with 



flat tentacles. 

 5. A. hispidus. 6. A. pinniceps. 7. A. tiidens. 



[The following species appear to belong to this division : — ] 

 8. A. moluccensis. 9. A. coccineus. 10. A. lindgi-eeni. 



d. Caudal fin with ti-ansparent, black-edged ocelli. 



11. A. urophthahnus. 



e. Colour nearly uniform black or brown ; anterior dorsal spine with 



flat tentacles. 



12. A. commersonii. 13. A. principis. 



[The following species, perhaps, are merely varieties : — ] 

 14. A. homdus. 15. A. melas. 



/. Ocellated black spots on the vertical fins and more or less on the 

 body. 



10. A. multioceUatus. 17. A. nummifer. 



[Other species closely allied to this division are — ] 



18. A. notophtlialmus. 22. A. caudimaculatus. 25. A. polyophthaknus. 



19. A. ocellatus. 23. A. chironectes. 26. A. phjTuatodes 



20. A. biocellatus. 24. A. pardalis. (A. oligospilos). 



21. A. tenebrosus. 27. A. leprosus. 



g. Head and anterior portion of the back immacidate, rose-coloured ; 

 the remainder reticulated with black. 



28. A. bigibbus, 

 h. Dorsal with fifteen rays. 



29. A. bougainvillii. 



1. Antennarius marmoratus. 



Seha, i. 74. 4 (very bad). 



Cochinchina Lophius, Shaw, Nat. dlisc.xol. xxiii. pi. 1012 (deformed). 



Skeleton : Cuv. Mem. 3Ius. iii. pi. 18. fig. 4 (Chironectes las-\igatus). 



D. 3 I 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 ray extends to, or slightly beyond, 



