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the an tero- ventral side of pectoral fins light, except a brown bar run- 
ning obliquely across each; postero-dorsal side thickl}- marbled, tips 
of raj's pale yellow; caudal fin somewhat more regularly barred than 
others. 
Coasts of Japan: less common than the preceding; here described 
from a specimen 4i inches long from Wakanoura. 
This species is apparently distinct from the preceding, and both are 
probably different from the American species, Pterophryne tumida and 
P. (/lhh((. A fourth species, very close to the Ptfvopli ryne ranina simi- 
larly spotted with white, but differing in other markings, is found 
in the Philippines. This form may be the original nim'moratux of 
Klein and Schneider, or it may be that all these various patterns of 
coloration maj' be mere varieties of P. Justrio and that but a single 
species of Pterophryiie exists. 
The synonymy of this species, like that of the preceding, is very 
doubtful, the names adopted for both being tentative only. 
{Ranina^ like a frog.) 
Measurements of Pterophryne ranina. 
Locality. 
Length in millimeters j 
Fin ravs D 
Head measured to gill opening in hiindredth.sof length 
Width of head 
Depth of head 
Length of tail 
Depth of caudal peduncle 
Width of body above vent 
Snout 
Eve 
Width of head at orbital region . 
Length of maxillary 
Snout to first dorsal spine 
Height of first dorsal spine 
Height of second dorsal spine.. 
Snout to third dorsal spine 
Height of third dorsal spine 
Snout to root of dorsal fin 
Height of dorsal rays 
Length of dorsal fin 
Length of caudal fin 
Height of anal fin 
Snout to end of actinosts 
Length of pectoral fin 
Length of ventral rays 
Snout to root of ventral rays 
akanoura. 
84 
III, 13; 
A.(;;C.8; 
P. 9; V. 5 
56 
29 
60 
36 
17 
11 
11 
5 
12 
25 
6 
5 
12 
21 
20 
45 
37 
58 
37 
35 
63 
27 
29 
42 
8. ANTENNARIUS Lacepede. 
Atifennarius Com.mersox in Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., I, 1798, p. 323. Foot- 
note only; not accepted by Lacepede. 
1 Hi stria Fischer, Zoognosia, 3d ed., 1, 1813, p. 78. Definition incorrect; through 
a slip of the pen, " caput depressuin " written instead of " caput compres- 
sum." No type mentioned. Fischer's Lophius histrio (Bloch, IV, p. 10, pi. 
cxi) is partly a true Antennarius according to Dr. Gill, probably A. scaber. 
LesCldronectes {Antennarius Commerson) Cuvier, Regne Animal, Ist ed., I, 1817, 
jj. 310; 2d ed., II, 1829, p. 251. Chironectes preoccupied in mammals by 
Chironedes lUiger, 1811. 
