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free from caudal; depth 4% to 5; head 4%; eye Sy^ to 

 3% in head; pelvics 1% and longest soft dorsal ray 1% in 

 head ; a very deep notch between dorsals ; color pale, with 

 light tan or brownish blotches on head and body or with 

 seven obscure double b:irs ventrally, and single bars 

 dorsally; most conspicuous color mark a black spot on 

 membrane of spiny dorsal between tips of first two spines ; 

 lower lip blackish ; dorsals, pectorals, caudal mostly plain 

 in males but distinctly barred with spots in females ; anal 



near tips blackish Salarias gibbifrons Quoy and Gaimard 



105. Cirri on eye not simple, but bifid or trifid at tips, or edges 

 fringed. 

 12a. Dorsal rays XII or XIII, 17 or 18; anal 19 to 21; peri- 

 toneum dusky ; nasal cirri 1 to 3, short ; cirri on eye as 

 long or longer than eye, with edges fringed; no cirrus on 

 nape ; crest developed on both sexes ; soft dorsal free from 

 caudal; lateral line ends under middle of spiny dorsal 

 without turning down to midaxis ; depth 5% to 5% ; head 

 4% ; eye 5 in head ; pelvics 2% in head, height of longest 

 soft dorsal ray ll^ to 1% in head; color brovni; spiny 

 dorsal blackish, with five black blotches between first to 

 sixth spines, soft dorsal blackish with numerous oblique 

 black and white lines on females ; margin of anal blackish ; 

 rays of caudal and pelvics blackish ; cheeks of males with 

 small brown spots; often a brownish blotch behind eye; 

 in young and half-grown one to five black blotches between 

 first six dorsal spines; no oblique black and white lines on 

 soft dorsal ; sides of body with 10 to 12 vertical brown bars, 

 as wide as eye in adults, with narrow white Hue between 

 them, but in young the white and dark bars about same 

 width and arranged in pairs; also diffuse pigment area at 

 base of pectoral ; midbase of caudal fin with a difl'use 

 blackish blotch in young and in some adults. 



Salarias marg'aritatus (Kendall and Radcliffe) 

 12&. Dorsal rays XIII, 20 to 22, anal 22 to 24; peritoneum pale, 

 with but a few pigment cells ; nasal cirri short, multifid ; 

 cirrus on each eye long, tip bifid or trifid ; cirri small, rarely 

 present; crest developed as a low ridge on breeding males; 

 soft dorsal free from caudal; arch of lateral line ends below 

 end of spiny dorsal; depth 5i{; to 5%; head 4%; eye 4; 

 pelvics 2l^ ; longest soft dorsal 1% in head ; dorsal deeply 

 notched; color brownish with about eight bars on body, 

 11/^ times wider than light interspaces and extending on 

 lower part of dorsals ; a round black spot a little above mid- 

 axis of body under second or third soft dorsal ray, about 

 size of pupil on large males but absent on young and on 

 other adults ; tips of spinous dorsal rays blackish at most 

 sizes ; pectoral crossed with four or five rows of small brown 

 spots on rays ; pelvics dusky ; lower half of caudal much 

 darker than upper half; anal dusky; top of head and 

 body anteriorly with paler spots; as large as pupil, a few 

 of these also on side of head and snout dorsally; a diffuse 



