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reaching anus; anal spines embedded on females and tips of first anal 

 rays of adult males not swollen at tips; posterior canines absent; 

 teeth fine, numerous, movable, of equal size in both jaws; distal 

 margin of caudal fin rounded ; cephalic crest absent. 



Color in alcohol. — ^Background coloration light brown to brownish, 

 with 8 vertical, double, dark brown bars, more or less connected, 

 ending both dorsally and ventrally at bases of median fins to form 

 double dark spots; anterior part of body with round whitish spots 

 from size of pupil to that of eye ; anterior part of body with numerous 

 lengthwise, short, parallel black lines, more widely spaced on lower 

 sides of body, anteriorly above pectoral fin, the body and spiny dorsal 

 finely spotted with black dots; posteriorly the body lacks the black 

 lines; pectoral fin dark spotted; dorsal with round white spots; soft 

 dorsal with a series of black spots submarginally; head plain brown 

 with a few dark brown spots; underside of head with two transverse, 

 broad, dark brown bands, edge of gill membrane brown; a broad 

 transverse dark brown band through base of pelvics, another across 

 abdomen between pectoral bases sometimes another across abdomen 

 about equidistant between pelvic bases and anal origin; caudal fin 

 dark spotted in basal two-thirds. 



FALLACIRRIPECTES, new genus 



Type species. — Fallacirripectes minutus, new species. 



This new genus of salariian blenny is characterized by having 

 XII, 10 or 11 dorsal rays; 11,11 or 12 anal rays; 15 pectoral rays; 

 1,4 pelvics, a single pair of simple nuchal and nasal dermal flaps or 

 cirri, no orbital cirrus; pair of posterior canines present on lower jaw, 

 no nuchal crest; other characters are those of the type species. 



Fallacirripectes is intermediate between Cirripectes and Entoma- 

 crodus but is closest to Cirripectes, which it resembles in having XII 

 dorsal spines, 15 pectoral rays, and no vomerine teeth; none of these 

 are characteristic of Entomacrodus. AU three genera are compared in 

 table 115. 



Table 115. — Comparison of certain characters in three related genera of the Salariinae 



