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Color. — Body very light yellowish brown, gray beneath, thickly spot- 

 ted with dark brown. The spots on the head are smaller than those on 

 the body. Those on the under side of the body are numerous, circular,, 

 the largest equalling the eye in size. On the upper part of the back 

 are many large oblong blotches of brown, interspersed with numerous 

 smaller circular spots. The markings of the dorsal and anal fins remotely 

 resemble those in Batrachus taUj subsp. a and /?. In ISTo. 22337a there 

 are nine interrupted bands on the dorsal and six on the anal., two dis- 

 tinct bands on the anterior half of the caudal, and on its posterior half 

 numerous blotches of the body color or dark brown grayish. Pectorals 

 grayish at the base, yellowish brown elsewhere, and thickly blotched 

 with dark brown. 



In No. 22337& the oblique bands on the dorsal fin are obsolete, replaced 

 by irregular blotches and an irregular marginal band of black. The 

 anal exhibits obsolescent bands, perhaps eight in number. Caudal 

 dark brown with a few light blotches. Pectoral as in 22337a, but with 

 a wide brownish black margin. 



TaMe of measurements. 

 Batrachus tau, snbsp. pardus. 



* Fin ii^nred ; some of the rays are missing— m, 26 present. 



Proc. Nat. Mus. 79 22 Iflarch 2,'5, 1 880. 



