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RECORDS OF IV. A. MUSEUM. 
Batrachus dubius of most authors, though not of Shaw, 
he considered they differed in having a narrower interorbital 
space and shorter tentacles. I have compared two specimens 
received from him as his species, with others from Port Jackson 
and find them identical in every way. In a well graduated series 
of fourteen specimens, 45-320 mm. long, the interorbital width 
increases regularly with size, being much narrower than the eye in 
young specimens, and considerably wider than it in adults. The 
tentacles are always short and thick. In Richardson’s figure, by 
which Ogilby has probably been guided, they are shown much 
too long and straggling. 
There is a young specimen 102 mm. long, in the Australian 
Museum from Garden Island, Port Jackson, caught and beautifully 
preserved by my friend Staff Paymaster P. B. Stevens, R.N. It 
shows the form and arrangement of the tentacles and colour particu- 
larly well, though the former are proportionately larger than in 
older examples, and is figured above. 
Mr. Ogilby has recently informed me he is now sure that 
Thalassophryne coeca, de Vis, is merely the adult of the estuarine 
form which he described as Batrachomoeus minor. He also agrees 
that both are synonymous with P. dubius, de Vis’ specimen being a 
large example from deep water. 
A single large specimen is in the Western Australian Museum 
from Fremantle. Macleay recorded specimens from Torres Strait 
and New Guinea, but the records need verification, since his speci- 
mens are no longer in the Macleay Museum and his identifications 
of all specimens of this family were very faulty. 
Family ANTENNARIIDAE. 
ANTENNARIUS UROPHTHALMUS, Bleeker. 
Chironectescaudimaculatus, Richardson, Zool. "Erebus” and "Terror,” Fishes, 1848, 
p. 125, pi. LX., figs. 8-9 (perhaps not C. caudimaculalus, 
Ruppell ) 
A nlennarius caudimaculatus, Bleeker, Atl, Ichth., V., 1865, p. 15, pi. CXCVII. 
fig. 6. 
Antenniirius iiroplithalmus Bleeker, Nat. Tyd. Ned. Ind., II., 1851, p. 488. Id., 
Gunther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., III.,' 1861’, p. 192. Id’, 
Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc N.S. Wales, II., 1878, p. 356. 
Id., Klunzinger, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien., LXXX, i., 
1879, p. 388. 
A specimen from Broome, 120 mm. long, agrees very well with 
Richardsons and Bleeker’s figures of this species. It has not 
previously been recorded from Western Australia. 
