SUPPLEMENT, 1883. 797 



Dorsal and anal fins extemally black edged, and the membrane studded with fine brown 

 spots. Caudal light-coloured. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, one specimen Ij inches in length. 

 Page 330. Salakias fuscus. Add synonym. 



Salarias ])liaiosoma, Bleeker, Batoe, p. 317. 



,, holomelas, Giinther, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, x, 1872, p. 399. 

 „ niger, Koss. u. Raiib. F. R. M. p. '21, t. ii, f. 8. 



Page 331. Add Salaeias sindensis. 



Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 263. 



B. vi, D. 13/20, P. 14, V. 2, A. 23, C. 12. 



Length of head 1,5, height of body 1/5 of the total length. Eyes — situated high up 

 near the dorsal profile, diameter 1/4 of the length of the head, 1 diameter from the end of 

 the snout and also apart. Body strongly compressed, profile from above the orbits to the 

 end of the snout oblique. The height of the head equals its length excluding the snout. 

 The posterior extremity of the maxilla reaches to beneath the front edge of the eye. No 

 tentacles or crest on the head. Teeth — largo, well developed, posterior canines. Fins — 

 dorsal not notched, bat becoming higher posteriorly where the longest rays equal half the 

 height of the body : anal not quite so high as soft dorsal : dorsal, anal, and caudal rays 

 nnbranched. The dorsal and anal fins not quite connected to the caudal. Colours — 

 olivaceous, four wide brown bands on the head, the three anterior of which encircle it, 

 about twelve vertical bands on the body, more or less distinct, but most so at the base of 

 the dorsal fin. Dorsal fin with a dark mark along its anterior two-thirds : anal black- 

 edged, each ray tipjjed with pure white. In one there appears to be marks of some 

 narrow, horizontal bands having existed along the front half of the body. 



Habitat. — Three specimens up to- 2s inches in length from Kurrachee in Sind. 



Page 331. Add Salarias cruentipinnis. 



Tickell, Fishes, p. 313, MSS. with a figure. 

 B. vi, D. 13/13, V. 2, A. 17. 



Length of head 5, of caudal fin 5|, height of body 4 in the total length. Ei/es — high 

 up near the dorsal profile. Body compressed : the profile from the eyes to the month 

 almost vertical : the posterior extremity of the maxilla reaches to beneath the hind 

 edge of the eye. No crest on the head : a bifurcated supraorbital tentacle and a fringed 

 nasal one. Fins — dorsal not notched, and posteriorly continued on to the caudal fin, its 

 spinous portion equal to three-fourths the height of the body and rather more than its soft 

 part. Anal lower than the dorsal, its posterior rays the longest. Colours — rich vinous 

 olive sepia : a large patch of pale j'ellowish-b\;own from the angle of the lips to the lower 

 edge of the subopercle. Caudal fin of the same colour as the body, with the three outer 

 rays above and below tawny. Dorsal fin dnsky, its basal half blackish, external half of 

 anterior 17 rays carmine, of the 9 posterior I'ays black. Anal fin dusky with a carmine 

 band along its centre, and externally with a carmine and black edging. Pectoral paler 

 than the body with its lower rays tinged with carmine. 



Habitat. — Saddle Island, ofF Kyoukphoo in AiTacan. The specimen was 2'8 inches 

 in length. 



Page 332. Add Salakias neilli. 



Day, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 263. 



B. vi, D. 12/17, P. 13, V. 2, A. 19, C. 10. 



Length of head 4i, height of body 4| of the total length. Eyes — situated high up near 

 the dorsal profile, 4 diameters in the length of the head, 1 diameter from the end of the 

 snout and half a diameter apai-t. Frontal profile very steep, the head as high as it is long, 

 the maxilla reaches to beneath the last third of the eye. A fringed supraorbital tentacle 

 about twice .as long as the eye, a small fringed one at the nostril, no crest on the head. 

 Teeth — in a single row fixed, a very large curved canine posteriorly in the lower jaw and 

 a smaller curved one in the upper. Fins — spinous portion of dorsal fin lower than the 

 rayed part, the notch between the two j^ortions well marked, the longest dorsal rays are 

 equal to half the height of the body of the fish, neither the dorsal nor anal fins are 

 attached to the caudal, which latter is somewhat wedge-shaped and its rays are branched. 

 Colours — olive with seven or eight short dark bands descending from the dorsal fin down 

 the first third of the body. Some dark bands radiate from the eye : a large black blotch 

 below and somewhat behind the orbit. Two semicircular brown bands across the lower 

 surface of the mandibles. Fins darker than the body. 



