198 PEDICULAI'I. 



24. Antennarius pardalis. 



Chironectes pardalis, Cuv, Sf Val. xii. p. 420. pi. 363. 



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

 a small lobe. The soft dorsal fin terminates at some distance from 

 the caudal. Skin rough, without cutaneous tentacles. Red, with 

 many smaller and larger black ocelli, irregularly disposed ; the 

 largest below the middle of the base of the dorsal. {Vol.) 



Coast of Gorea. 



25. Antennarius polyophthalmus. 

 Bleek. Natuurk. Tydschr. Nederl. Ind. iii. 1852, p. 644. 

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



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

 fringed lobe. Skin rough, covered with small spines, with a few short 

 cutaneous fringes. Yellowish, clouded with brownish. Eody and fins 

 with black, yellow- edged ocelli, more numerous on the belly than on 

 the back and the sides : one of the largest, with white centre, above the 

 pectoral, another above the anaL a third on the tail. The dorsal has 

 two series of ocelli, five forming the upper one ; caudal with more than 

 twenty ; anal Avith ten, the basal of which is the largest. {Bleek. ) 



Seas of Banda Neira and Goram. 



26. Antennarius phymatodes. 

 Bleek. Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Nederl. ii., Ainboina, p. 69. 

 D. 3 1 11. A. 7. P. 10. 



The anterior dorsal spine is of moderate length, terminating in a 

 fringed lobe. Skin rough, covered with smaU spines ; a few short 

 tentacles at the lower lip, none on the body. Citron-yellow : an 

 oblique irregular red band descends from the anterior part of the 

 dorsal fin towards the opercles ; other red blotches on the throat, 

 behind the angle of the mouth and on the back of the tail. Body 

 and fins with numerous smaller and larger blackish- violet ocelli, 

 which are very small on the back, of unequal size on the head, larger 

 on the beUy, and nearly entirely absent on the middle of the side. The 

 larger ocelli on the fins are more or less arranged in series. (Bleek.) 



Sea of Amboyna. 



This species appears to be very nearly aUied to our second variety 

 of A. multiocellatus ; it has been founded on a single specimen. 



A. oligospUos, Bleek. Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Nederl. ii., Amboina, p. 71 , 

 likewise founded on a single specimen, is certainly merely another 

 variety of this or of one of the other species. 



27. Antennarius leprosus. 



■\ntennariu8 leprosus, Bleek. Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Nederl. u.,Ambo{na,T^. 68, 



D. 3 I 12. A. 6. P. 10. 

 The anterior dorsal spine if> of moderate length, terminating in 



