1849.1 Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. 1187 



The points of the ventral rays rose-coloured. The caudal rays black ; 

 between the third and ninth, near the root, the black membrane has a 

 transversal rose-coloured band divided in the middle by a black line. 

 On the posterior part of the caudal a broad sub-marginal rose-coloured 

 band, within which four somewhat undulating black lines, edged with 

 black. Lips, throat, tongue, and cavity of the mouth light bluish 

 gray, dotted with black. Iris rose-coloured silvery, with six radiating 

 black lines, pupil circular, black. 



D3— 14, C9, A 7, V5, P 9, Br. VI.? 



Habit. — Sea of Singapore. 

 Isle of France. 



Total length : 5-J. 



The body and fins are covered with small black spines like those of 

 A. hispidus, but there are no fleshy filaments. The lateral line is con- 

 tinued to the root of the caudal fin. The abdomen is very expansible. 

 The present differs from the description given by Cuvier and Valenciennes 

 in the position and number of the rose-coloured spots or ocelli, and 

 the anal fin has one ray less, differences sufficiently insignificant to be 

 considered individual. A single individual was observed at Singapore 

 in May 1840. 



Gen. Batrachus, Klein 1744. 



Head broad ; mouth widely cleft, lips frequently with numerous 

 cutaneous filaments ; anterior dorsal fin very small and almost hid by the 

 integuments ; pectorals supported by flat short arms ; ventrals jugular 

 with three rays of which the anterior is elongated, flattened like a sword- 

 blade ; teeth in the jaws, vomer and palate ; posterior dorsal and the anal 

 extensive, but low ; sub-opercle as large as opercle, both terminating in 

 strong spines ; infraorbitals none ; branchiostegous rays six. 



Batrachus grunniens, (Linne). 

 Seba III. PI. 28, Fig. 4. 



Cottus grunniens, Var. B. Linne : Mus. Ad. Fr. II. 65. 

 Cottus grunniens, Linne, Var. B : Syst. 1209. 

 Cottus grunniens, Bloch, PI. 179. 

 Cottus grunniens, Lacep. III. 232. 

 Batrachus, Bloch-Schneider, 42. 

 Cottus grunniens, Shaw IV. 256. 

 Batrachus grunniens, Cuv. R. A. II. 253. ( 2 ). 

 Batrachoides gangene, Buchan. Ham, 34, 365, PI. XIV. Fig. 8. 



