326 EXPEDITION OF THE " ALIiATIiOSS," 18'.m-l!)()(). 



Alticus caudolineatus Gi nthek. 



Jordan & Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 1906, 25, ]). 423. 



iSalarias caudolineatus Guxther, FLsclie der Siidsee, 1877, 6, p. 209, Inf. 1 1('>, tif;;. V. 



No. 05909, M. C. Z. 29583 ( 1 specimen), 2 specimens 2 and l| inches lung 

 (poor condition) from Rangiroa, Paumotu Islands. 



Dorsal XII, I, 20; anal 21; simple supraorbital tentacle, and a l)ifi(.l nasal 

 tentacle. Our specimens do not agree exactly in the above characters with 

 Gtinther's description. 



Salarias lineatus Cuviek & Valenciennes. 



Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1836, 11, p. 232 (314). Day, Fishes of India, 1876, p. 332, pi. 70, tig. 8. Jordan 

 & Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., 1906, 25, p. 426. 



One specimen, No. 08915, M. C. Z. 29370, 2| inches long from Ai'hno Atoll, 

 Marshall Islands. 



Head 5 in body; depth 5; eye 3.42 in head; dorsal XII (I), 23; anal 25; 

 no crest. 



Moderately slender, head bluntly rounded, profile steep, a short fringed 

 nasal cirrus; a supraocular cirrus is sharply triangular and fringed on both sides. 



Color in alcohol: ground color on top of head and back light brownish 

 gray, faintly mottled with darker and lighter on back; about 3 rows of small 

 black longitudinal spots beginning on a line under posterior 4th of dorsal and 

 extending on body to base of caudal; caudal irregularly blotched with dark 

 brown, but with a sharply defined narrow dark brown band running from the 

 middle of the upper margin obliciuely downward antl backward; longitudinal 

 light streaks on side, making broken lines, these being less broken farther down 

 on the side, showing faintly near base of anal; sides with about 12 pairs of 

 purplish brown cross bars somewhat triangular in shape with a wide angle, apex 

 forward; color most intense on axis of body but continuing faintlj^ toward 

 dorsal and anal ; 4 or 5 faint light bars across cheeks ; 2 dark bars across base of 

 pectoral; dorsals finely punctate, a brownish margin on soft dorsal anteriorly, 

 a row of very faint dark spots on base of soft dorsal, arranged in pairs posteriorly ; 

 anal plain, pale, with a few fine punctulations on tlie ujjper margins of membranes 

 and rays anteriorly. 



