BATRACHOIDID.E OF QUEENSLAND. 
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4. COHYZICHTHYS DIEMENSIS. 
? Lophins dubius White, Voy. N. S. Wales, 1790, p. 265, c. fig. : Port Jackson, 
N.S.W. 
Batrachoides diemensis Le Sueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, 1823, 
p. 402 : 
Batrachus dusiumieri Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xii, 1837, p. 474, 
pi. ccclxvii: Malabar Coast— Giinther, B. M. Catal. Fish., iii, 1861, p. 
169— Alleyne & Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, i, 1877, p. 335— 
Klunzinger, Sitzb. Akad. Wien, lxxx, i, 1879, p. 386 — Macleay, Proc. Linn. 
Soc. N. S. Wales, v, 1880, p. 573. 
Batrachus quadrispinis Cuvier & Valenciennes, ibid., p. 487 : Seas of India. 
Batrachus diemensis Richardson, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., xi, 1843, p. 352. & 
Zool. Erebus & Terror, Fish. 1845, p. 17, pi. viii, figg. 1 & 2— Bleeker, Nat. 
Tijds. Ned. Ind., iii, 1852, p. 168— Giinther, ibid., p. 170— Macleay, ibid., 
ii, 1878, p. 355 & v, 1880, p. 573. 
Batrachus miiUeri Klunzinger, ibid., p. 387 : Port Darwin, N. T. — Macleay, 
ibid., ix, 1884, p. 29. 
Batrachus grunniens Macleay, ibid., vii, 1882, p. 360. Not Cottus grunniens, 
var. B, Linnaeus, 1758. 
Porichthys queenslandice de Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, vii, 1882, p. 
370 ; Coast of Queensland.* 
BANDED FROG-FISH. 
D. 19 to 21 ; A. 16 or 17 ; Vert. 10 + 17 = 27. Width of head 
rather less than its length, which is 2*75 to 3"00 in that of the body. 
Diameter of eye '23 more than the length of the snout and 3*75 in that 
of the head. Interorbital width 2*25 in the diameter of the eye and 
8*25 in the head. Premaxiilary teeth anteriorly in four, posteriorly 
in two series, those of the inner row the longest and strongly 
hooked ; vomerine teeth in many irregular series ; palatine teeth 
similar to the vomerine, but often with two or three much enlarged, 
isolated teeth on the inner edge of the bone at some distance from 
the outer band, which is biserial posteriorly ; mandibular teeth 
pluriserial anteriorly, where the bone expands to form a rounded 
process directed forwards, behind which the band gradually narrows 
to a double row, the hinder teeth of w T hich are much enlarged, erect, 
and compressed. Two opercular spines, the upper much the longer ; 
one or two subopercular spines, the lower, when present, short. f 
Tentacles variable in length, the variance not dependent on age and 
sex ; those surrounding the jaws usually rather short and simple, 
* The types of Mr. de Vis' proposed species are unfortunately missing, but I 
have no hesitation in referring it to this fish. 
f Of twelve Queensland specimens examined the lower subopercular spine was 
absent in four ; in one of these, however, the position of the base of the spine is 
plainly discernible below the surface, though not reaching the edge of the sub- 
opercular bone. There is absolutely no other difference between the three-spined 
dussumieri and the four-spined diemensis. 
