:>30 ACAXTHOPTERYGII. 



supraorbital tentacle, one at nostril. Dorsal fin not continued on to the caudal. Blue spot on head, eight 

 imirs of vertical brown bands, and two or three rows of white spots along the body. Oblique bauds on 

 dorsal fin. Andamans. 



16. Salarias frenatus, D. 12 | 14-10, A. 18. Canines present. No crest on the head. A short fringed 

 supraorbital tentacle, another at nostril, and a short simple one at nape. Dorsal continued on to the base of the 

 caudal. Pour white bands, edged with gray, go from eye to throat : body blotched, banded, and spotted. 

 Oblique lines on dorsal fin. Malabar and Bombay. 



17. Salarias vermiculatus, D. 12-13 ] 15, A. 18-19. Large canines. No crest on head. A fringed supra- 

 orbital tentacle, a short nasal one, a short simple one at nape. Dorsal fin continued on to base of caudal. 

 Vertically banded, reticulated brown linos on body and head. East coast of Africa, Andamans. 



18. Salarias marmorihis, D. 12 | lo, A. 18. Large canines. No crest on head. A fringed supraorbital 

 tentacle, one at nostril, and another at the nape. Dorsal fin does not extend on to the caudal. Brownish- 

 yellow spotted, as are also the vertical tins. Ceylon and Sand\^■ich islands. 



A. Dorsal fin not notched. 



1. Salarias tridactylus, Plate LXX, fig. 3. 



Slennius tridacttjlns, Bl. Schn. p. 170. 



Blermius amphibiits, Walb. Artedi, iii, p. 187. 



Blermius saliens, Lacep. ii, pp. 4.58, 479. 



Salarias alticus, Cuv. and Val. xi, p. 337 ; Kner, Novara Fische, p. 190. 



Btqriscartes alticus, Swainson, Fishes, ii, p. 275. 



Blennius gohioides, Forst. Des. An. cur. Licht. p. 283. 



Salarias iridadylus, Giinther, Catal. iii, p. 242 ; Steind. Sitz. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1868, p. 994 ; Klunz. Verh. 

 z. b. Ges. Wien, 1871, p. 489. 



B. vi, D. 12-13 I 19-22, P. 13, V. 1/3, A. 25-26, C. 11. 



Length of head O-^-, of caudal 6^, height of body 7A to Ri in the total length. £'?/es— diameter 1/4 of 

 length of head, 1 diameter from end of snout, and 1/4 of a diameter apart. Snout obtuse, overhanging the 

 mouth. Height of the head equals its length excluding the snout, and its width equals its length behind tlie 

 eves. Cleft of mouth reaches to below the middle of the eye. A well developed crest on the head, a small and 

 simple tentacle over the posterior-supei-ior angle of the eye, none at nostril or neck. A row of four or five large 

 open glands, having white edges round the posterior edge of the orbit. Teeth— in jaws small : canines are 

 absent in my specimens, in Cuv. and Val. small ones are said to exist. Fins — dorsal not notched, as high as to 

 double tlie height of the body, the spinous and rayed portion of nearly the same height, the membrane 

 emaro-inate, the°fin does not extend quite to the caudal, which latter is rounded. Pectoral as long as the head, 

 ventral half as long. Caudal rays unbranched. Colours — plumbaceous, usually with vertical bands, fine black 

 spots on the head and anterior portion of the body, and sometimes light spots exist on the body. Dorsal with 

 oblique black streaks intervening with white ones, and a white outer edge. Caudal rays black with the 

 membrane yellow. Anal with a gray base and a black white-edged outer margin. 



Habitat.— Ued Sea, seas of India to the Malay Archipelago. 



2. Salarias fuscus, Plate LXX, fig. 2. 



Euppell, N. W. Fische, p. 135, t. 32, fig. 2 ; Giinther, Catal. iii, p. 245 ; Klunz. Verh. z. b. Ges. Wien. 



1871, p. 489. 



Salarias ruficaudus, (Ehrenb.) Cuv. and Val. si, p. 328. 



B. vi, D. 30, P. 15, V. 2, A. 20, C. 11. 



Length of head 4i, of caudal 4 to 4J, height of body 21 to 4 times in the total length. Etjes— high up, 

 in the fron^half of the length of the head, not quite 1 diameter from end of snout, and two-thirds of a diameter 

 apart. The profile fi-om the eye to the snout subvertical, sometimes even projecting over the mouth. Height 

 of head equals its length, and its width equals the length of its postorbital portion. The niaxUla reaches to 

 below the middle of the eye. A short simple tentacle over the eye. No crest on the head. Teeth— no posterior 

 canine, i^tits— dorsal fin not notched and continued on to the caudal, it is highest posteriorly, where 

 however it does not quite equal the height of the body, in the specimen figured (male'r) the last dorsal and 

 anal rays are prolonged, the dorsal is continued posteriorly to the base of the caudal, which last is rather 

 pointed. Colours— hrovtn, with the dorsal and anal fins nearly black : pectoral yellow, with a black mark at 

 its base: caudal brownish. ,,.,,,. -j ^ 



Salarias frontalis (Ehrenb.), Cuv. and Val. xl, p. 328, appears to be closely allied, but is said to possess 

 long supraorbital tentacles. .... „ , 



Hahitat.-From the Red Sea to the Malay Archipelago. The one figured (life-size) is from Kurrachee 



in Sind. 



3. Salarias fasciatus. 



Blennius gattorugine, Forsk. Desc. Anim. p. 23 (not Linn.). 

 Blennius fasciatus, Bloch, ii, p. Ill, t. 102, f. 1 ; Bl. Schn. p. 163. 



