194 PEDICULATI. 



lobe. Skin rough, covered with small spines, without cutaneous 

 appendages. Blackish-brown, the lower parts and the fins brown ; 

 a yeUow cross-band before the first dorsal ray, descending towards 

 the opercles and widening below ; a round yellowish spot above the 

 axil ; beUy and vertical fins with large round black spots, edged with 

 reddish ; a yellowish band across the back of the tail, and a spot of 

 the same colour' on the upper angle of the caudal fin ; tips of the 

 pectoral and ventral rays yellowish. (Bleeh.) 

 East Indian Archipelago. 



Closely allied to some of the varieties of A. commersonii, but said 

 to have only twelve dorsal rays. 



15. Antennarius melas. 



Bleek. Act, Soc. Sc. Indo-Nederl. ii., Amboina, p. 70. 

 D. 3 I 12. A. 7. P. 10. 



The anterior dorsal spine is of moderate length, terminating in 

 two lobes. Skin rough, covered with small spines, without cuta- 

 neous fririges. Blackish-brown : belly brown ; dorsal and caudal 

 fins with a few indistinct small black spots. Tips of the pectoral 

 and ventral rays yeUow. (Bl.) 



Sea of Amboyna. 



16. Antennarius multiocellatus. 



D. 3 I 11-12. A. 7. P. 10. 



The anterior dorsal spine is longer than the second, terminating in 

 a fringed lobe. The dorsal fin terminates at some distance from the 

 caudal, and its last ray extends to, or very nearly to, the root of the 

 latter. Skin rough, covered with minute spines, -with or without 

 cutaneous fringes. Eed or whitish, minutely dotted with violet, and 

 with several blackish ocelli : one on the base of the eighth and ninth 

 dorsal rays, another on the base of the fifth and sixth anal rays, and 

 three on the middle of the caudal fin, disposed in a triangle. 



Var. «. multiocellata. 



Chironectes multiocellatus, Cuv. ^ Veil. xii. p. 420 ; Poey, Mem. Cub. 

 p. 220. 



Red, with several small ocelli on the body, one behind the pec- 

 toral ; the violet dots chiefly conspicuous on the membranes of the 

 vertical fins. Cutaneous fringes none. 



Caribbean Sea. 

 a. Fine specimen : thirty lines long. From the Collection of the 



Zoological Society. 

 ? b. Half-grown : discoloured. China Seas. Presented by Captain 

 Sir E. Belcher, C.B. 



Var. ft. Probably adult state. 



Reddish, marbled with olive and brown, these variegations forming 



