BY J. DOUGLAS OGILBY. 43 



Head as wide as long. Snout short 1-35, inter orbital 

 width 1-75 in the eye- diameter. Teeth as in C. diemensis, 

 but without the enlarged ones on the vomer. Two opercular 

 and two subopercular spines, the upper in each being 

 much the larger. Skin of head and body, except the throat 

 and abdomen, covered with more or less reticulated folds^ 

 Tentacles moderately developed, those surrounding the 

 jaws simple or bifid in front, much longer and fringed 

 behind, ; a series of broad simple or fringed tentacles round 

 the edges of the opercular bones ; 3 well developed, usually 

 fringed, supraciliary tentacles, the middle the largest ; 

 a small fringed frontonasal tentacle ; 6 longitudinal series 

 of small tentacles on the occiput, extending backward 

 to below the 1st dorsal ; tentacles of the lateral lines very 

 small or absent. 



Caudal and pectoral fins rounded ; outer ventral ray 

 scarcely longer than the pectoral. 



Brown above, more or less blotched with lighter 

 posteriorly, the lighter parts profusely dotted ; tail mth 

 two broad dark transverse bands more or less freckled 

 with lighter ; lower surface light yellowish brown closely 

 dappled with da-rk brown. Dorsal, ana,l, and caudal fins 

 dark brown, variously streaked with lighter ; pectorals- 

 brown with darker dots ; ventrals brown edged with lighter 

 spots. 



Described from three Aru Island examples, 110 to 160 

 millim. long, in the A.F.A.Q. Museum; Cat. Xo. 991. 



CALLIONYMIDJE. 



Callionymus grossi sp. nov. 



D. iv, 9; A. 8; P. 17. Depth of body 9-6, width ot 

 body 5-5, length of head 4-5, of 1st dorsal spino 1-7, of 

 caudal fin 2-66 to 3-5, of pectoral 4-25, of ventral 3-45 in 

 length of body. Depth of head 2-2, width of head 1-15^ 

 diameter of eye 3. length of snout 2-6, of preopercular 

 spino 2.5, of last dorspJ ray 1-1, of last anal 1-5 in length 

 of head. 



Body gently rounded above, its greatest depth below 

 the anterior dorspJ rays. Snout about as wide as deep^ 

 pointed, its depth 1-15 in it length; eyes close together 

 directed upward, prominent, 1-2 in the snout, and 2-6 in 

 the width of the head. Preopercular spine straight, the 



