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white, the anal with a dark margin. Three specimens, length 

 2-4.50 inches. Guam, June 2, 1900. Hab. Andamans to Malay 

 Archipelago, Marianas. 



271. Salarias nigripes sp. nov. 



Head 3.66 ; depth 3.20 ; eye 3 ; interorbital 2 into eye; I). 25; 

 A. 17; V. 3; P. 15. No scales, but an incomplete lateral line which 

 seems to terminate on a line with the tip of the perioral fins. Max- 

 illae reaching to below the posterior part of eye. Teeth small, 

 movable; a single row in each jaw; no canines. A small tentacle 

 over the eye, and another at nostril. A fringed row of these short 

 fleshy tentacles over the posterior margin of the head, from the 

 upper margin of one opercle to the other. Bod}' slightly elongate, 

 compressed posteriorly. Branchiostegals 6. Pseudobranchise pres- 

 ent. Fins: The caudal is square, and equal in length to pectorals. 

 The dorsal commences on a line with tip of opercle and extends to 

 base of caudal fin. The base of anal is contained twice into base 

 of dorsal. Length of pectorals about equal to depth of body, their 

 base 2 into head. Ventrals small, 1.50 into head. Color in spirits: 

 A uniform warm sepia brown, with a few small white dots on snout 

 and below the eye. Anal fin a uniform black. The remaining 

 fins uniform with coloring of the body, except the upper anterior 

 part of dorsal, and the upper third of caudal, which are white; the 

 white on caudal beginning on the base of the upper two or three 

 rays and broadening posteriorly. ^ Thirty specimens, length 1-2.75 

 inches. Guam, July 12, 1900. Hab. Marianas. 



372. Salarias nitidus Gunth. 



Head 4.50; depth 5.66; eye 3 into head; interorbital 2 into 

 eye ; maxillse reach to below posterior margin of eye ; no scales; 

 D. 32; A. 21. Branchiostegals 6. Gill openings wide. Teeth: 

 A single row of small movable teeth in each jaw; posterior canines 

 not always present. Body somewhat elongate and compressed pos- 

 teriorly. IMouth transverse, a tentacle about as long as width of 

 eye, on upper part of orbit; also a small one at nostril. Dorsal fin 

 scarcely notched, beginning above the opercle and terminating just 

 in front of caudal. Color in spirits: Yellowish white, with indis- 

 tinct indications of seven or eight brownish cross bands. A round 

 black dot, slightly smaller than eye, on each side of body, below 

 the notch of the dorsal fin. Head and body with numerous lighter 

 yellowish dots. Dorsal fin with a row of brown dots along middle. 

 Anal and caudal with dark margins. Six .specimens, length 1-3.50 

 inches. Guam, June 14, 1900. Hab. Samoan Islands, Marshall 

 Islands, Marianas. 



^Regardless of anj' other differences this white pattern of the caudal fin would seem suf- 

 ficient to warrant this form to stand as a distinct species, for in the thirty specimens before 

 me there is no variation from this type of caudal marking'. 



