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SALAEIAS, Cuv. 



258. Salarias fasciatus. [ C44 -] 



Blennius gattorugine, Forsk. p. 23. 



fasciatus, Bl. ii. p. Ill, t. 162. f. 1. 



Salarias quadripinnis, Riipp. Atl. Fische, p. 112, t. 28. f. 2; Cuv. fy Val. xi. p. 318. 

 fasciatus, Cuv. §■ Val. xi. p. 324; Giinth. Fish. iii. p. 244. 



Island of Johanna. Bed Sea. Indian Ocean. Polynesia. 



259. Salarias dussumieri. Plate IX. figs. 6, 7. [62, 385, 391.] 

 Salarias dussumieri, Cuv. ty Val. xi. p. 310; Giinth. Fish. iii. p. 251. 



D. 12 | 20-21. A. 22. 



[391.] Adult males, three and a half inches long, want the orbital tentacles. The 

 ground-colour of the lower half of the body is pearly ; the body is crossed by seven or 

 eight darker bands, the four anterior of which are broken up into a pair of bands each. 

 The whole body, bands as well as interspaces, is covered with small dark-brown dots. 

 The first dorsal is uniform blackish, the second dorsal and caudal are dotted with brown 

 like the body, and the anal has one or two series of brown, white-edged dots along the 

 middle. 



[385.] The adult female, four and a half inches long, has a slightly fringed orbital 

 tentacle as long as the eye. The body is marked with irregular pairs of dark-brown 

 streaks and with a few scattered brown spots ; the dots on the dorsal fins are confluent 

 into oblique lines ; the caudal and anal are immaculate. 



[62.] Young females, one and a half to two and a half inches long, have cross bands 

 on the body, but the fins are immaculate. 



Aden. Zanzibar. Cape of Good Hope. Coast of Malabar. Port Essington. 



260. Salarias oorti. [719 a.] 



Salarias oorti, Bleek. Natur. Tydschr. Ned. Ind. i. p. 257, f. 15, and Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerl. iii. 

 Sumatra, p. 39; Giinth. Fish. iii. p. 257. 



As only one specimen, two and a half inches long, exists in this collection, it is 

 somewhat doubtful whether the determination is correct. 

 Zanzibar. East-Indian archipelago. 



261. Salarias unicolor. U^-] 

 Salarias unicolor, Riipp. N. W. Fische, p. 130; Giinth. Fish. iii. p. 259. 



D. 12 | 17-18. A. 18-20. 



In the specimens from the Mozambique coast the colour is greenish grey, with small 

 white spots rather irregularly scattered over the sides and vertical fins (caudal excepted). 



