450 FISHES FROM SOUTH SEA ISLANDS, 



Yellowish, minutely dotted with brown. Distant brown spots 

 on the upper part of the head and neck and on soft dorsal ; caudal 

 with three faint crossbars. 



A shorter fish than 9 guttulatum Macl., with a longer head and 

 a much shorter and more delicate filament. The body is without 

 traces of bands. Guttulatum is minutely freckled with white, and 

 the bars on the tail are frequently multiplied and broken up into 

 spots — in the present fish they are constantly linear and faint, its 

 mandibulary cirrhi also are much smaller. 



Loc. South Sea Islands probably. 



Salarias griseus. 

 D. 30. A. 20. 

 Height 5, head 5f in the length. 



Lower canine moderate. A bifid tentacle on nostril and orbit. 

 A pair of short fringed tentacles on nape Anterior profile oblique. 

 Dorsal rising on vertical of upper opercular angle, continuous with 

 caudal, violet grey. Pectoral brown spotted ; ventral brown 

 tinged. 



Loc. South Sea Islands. 



Salarias ^quipinnis. Gunth. 



A specimen which may be of this species has a dorsal formula 

 12/19, and a pointed caudal. It is dark grey with pale spots 

 arranged anteriorly in short vertical bands. The anal rays are 

 black, but there is no marginal black band. Possibly it is distinct, 

 the number of dorsal spines being reduced beyond the usual limits 

 of variation. 



Amphiprion arion. 



D. 10/17, A. 2/13 L. Lat. 55. L. Tr. 5/20. 



Height 2\ ( 1£ s.c), head 3| in the total length. Snout and 

 orbit, 3 1 ; interorbit 2 J in the head. 



Muzzle very obtuse, rounded, jaws equal. Pre-operculum 

 feebly denticulated. Opercle radiately toothed, in two main lobes. 



