2400 Bullethi 47, United States National Micseum. 



893. SALARIICHTHYS, GiiiclieDot. 



Salariichthys, Guichenot, Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, xill, 1867, 96 (textilis). 



This genns differs from Enfomacrodus in the presence of teeth on the 

 vomer; dorsal deeply notched; cirri present over eye and on nape; pos- 

 terior canines small. (Salarias; ix^vi, fish.) 



2763. SALARIICHTHYS TEXTILIS (Quoy & Gaimard). 



D. XII, 16; A. 18. A few blnntish teeth on vomer; tentacles very small, 

 fringed over nostril and eye, simple on neck; canines quite short; 

 depth 4? ; head 44; pectoral short, little longer than head; gill membranes 

 broadly Tinited, free from isthmus; dorsal notched almost to base, free 

 from caudal; orbital filament i eye. Olive, with 13 silvery cross streaks, 

 not i as wide as the dark interspaces, some of the cross streaks Y-shaped ; 

 both dorsals with cross markings, the second with 12 or 13 streaks of dark 

 ol)li(juely upward and backward, alternately with similar pale streaks; 

 cross bars on si<les bent in middle, extending up and back and down and 

 back from middle line parallel with muscular impressions; sides with 

 some obscure pale dots; caudal barred with 7 dark bars; anal darkest 

 mesially; lower side of head with dark streaks radiating from the isth- 

 mus; bars at chin Y-shaped, upper part of head with darker markings; 

 pectoral nearly plain; a dusky area at base below which is a dusky spot; 

 marblings at base of dorsal. West Indies, from Bermudas to Brazil. Here 

 described from a specimen from Abrolhos Islands {Coll. Albatross). This 

 specimen agrees fairly with the account given by Jenyns, but Jeuyns 

 describes 5 bars on the tail. It also agrees fairly with the account of 

 the Bermuda specimens given by Goode. It is evidently the Salarias vo- 

 merinus of Cuvier & Valenciennes, and probably their texiilis also; but 

 tlieir description of the latter does not apply very well to the coloration 

 of our specimen, {textilis, woven.) 



Salarias textilis, Quoy & Gaimard MS., Covier & Valenciennes, Hlat. Nat. Poiss., xi, 

 307, 1836, Ascension Island (Coll. Quoy & Gaimard); GiJNTHER, Cat., iii, 248, 1861; 

 Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Miis., v, 29, 1876. 



Salamis vomerinus, Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi, 349, 1836, Bahia. 

 (Coll. Blanchet.) 



Salariichthys textilis, Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1890, 329. 



894. OPHIOBLENNIUS, Gill. 



BlennopMs, Valenciennes, in Webr &, Berthelot, Poiss. lies Canar., 60, 1844 {webbii; not 



Blennophis, Cuvier & Valenciennes, a genus of Clinina;). 

 Ophioblenniiis, Gill, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1860, 103 (webbii ; substitute for Blennophis). 



Body oblong, strongly compressed, scaleless ; snout short, high, abruptly 

 decurved anteriorly; symphysis of lower jaw of 4 hooked canines, the 

 outer strongest and bent backward, almost forming a right angle; sides 

 of lower jaw with 2 or 3 still larger canines, the hindermost very large and 

 bent backward; upper jaw with 4 slender canines in front, followed by a 

 long row of shorter, slender, movable teeth, which are set close together; 

 nasal tentacle digitate; a low, simple tentacle above eye; gill openings 

 ■wide. Dorsal fin long, the spines slender, separated by a slight notch from 



