FAMILY LOPfflD^ — BATRACHUS. 171 



This species cannot be confounded with any other now known. From the B, bispinis of 

 Bloch and Schneider, it is readily distinguished, if indeed that species is rightly placed under 

 the present genus. 



Its geographical limits are not known. 



(EXTRA-LIMITAL.) 



B. variegatus. (Lesceur, Ac. So. Vol. 3, p. 398.) Second dorsal distinct, and with twenty-one rays. 

 Laciniated processes on the jaws, eyes and opercles. Length five and a half inches. New-Jersey. 

 An sp. ver. ? 



