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N.S.W. (White & ? Steindachner) ; and ? Tasmania (Le Sueur). 
To these may be added the following Queensland localities — Somer- 
set, Dunk Island, Card well, Gladstone, and Moreton Bay. 
The Banded Prog-Pish is found everywhere along the coast of 
Queensland, but its southern limit is at present undefined. The 
Chevert expedition found it to be distributed "generally throughout 
Torres Straits," while the fact that at Port Moresby it has received 
the native name " Nohu" proves that it must be well known to the 
aboriginal population. Purther eastward we learn from Gilbert 
that it is common at Port Essington, and as it is by no means scarce 
in Moreton Bay, we may safely consider it to be the most abundant 
and widely distributed species on our shores. 
List of the. Species of Batrachoididce. 
i. BATRACHOIDES Lacepede, Hist. Nat, Poiss., iii, 1802, p. 
806 (tau — Surinam en sis). 
1. boulengerl Gilbert & Starks, Mem. Calif. Acad. Sci., iv, 1904, 
p. 182 : Pacific Coast of Central America. 
2. goldmani Evermann & Goldsborough, Bull, U.S. Pish. Comm., 
xxi, 1902, p. 159 : Tabasco, Mex. 
3. pacifici Giinther, B.M. Catal. Pish., iii, 1861, p. 173: Pacific 
Coast of Panama. 
4. surinamensis Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 1801, p. 43 : 
Surinam. 
ii. HALOBATRACHUS Ogilby, v. supra. Type, Batrachus 
didactylus Schneider. 
5. congicus Reichenow, Mon. Akad. Berlin, 1877, p. 622 : Chin- 
choxo, W. Africa. 
6. didactylus Bloch & Schneider, ibid., p. 12 : Mediterranean. 
7. liberiensis Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. Wien, lvi, 1867, p. 525 : 
Liberia, "W. Africa. 
iii. 0PSANUS Rafinesque, Amer. Month. Mag., 1817, p. 203 
(cerapalus = tau). 
8. argent inus Berg, An. Mus. Buenos Aires, v, 1897, p. 300: 
Mouth of the Rio de la Plata. 
9. vardus Goode & Bean, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., ii, 1879, p. 336: 
Pensacola, Pla. 
10. tau Linnaeus, Syst. Nat,_, ed. 12, 1766, p. 439 ; Carolina. 
