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not tho 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. 

 * White spots on the belly. 



1. A. raarmoratus, 

 ** No white spots on the belly. 



2. A. barbatulus. 



h. Anterior dorsal spine terminating in two spindle-liko 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 witli 



flat tentacles. 

 I). A. hispidiis. G. A. pinniceps. 7. A. tridens. 



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

 8. A. moluccensis. 9. A. coccineus. 10. A. lindgreeni. 



d. Caudal fin with transpar»^,nt, black-edged ocelli. 



11. A. urophtbalmus. 



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. hoiTidus. 15. A. melas. 



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

 body. 



16. A. multiocellatus. 17. A. nummifer. 



[Other species closely allied to this division are — ] 

 18. A. notophthalmus. 22. A. caudimaculatus. 25. A. polyophthalmus. 

 10. A. ocelliitus. 23. A. cliironectes. 26. A. pliyniatodes 



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



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



ff. Head and anterior portion of the back immaculate, rose-coloured ; 

 the remainder reticulated with black. 



28. A. bigibbus. 

 h. Dorsal with fifteen rays. 



29. A. bougainvillii. 



1. Antennarius mannoratns. 



Seha, i. 74. 4 (verj' bad). 



Cochinchina Lophius, Shaw, Nat. Misc. vol. xxiii. pi. 1012 (deformed). 



Skeleton : Cuv. 3Ihn. Mus. iii. pi. 18. fig. 4 (Chironectes lajvigatus). 



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



The anto«ior dorsal spine is short, terminating in a small Icnob 

 with a minute tcntadc attached to it ; sometimes it is very sliort, or 

 entirely absent. The last dorsal ray extends to, or slightly bcjond, 



