a. SALARIAS. 24'i 



begins above the middle of the operculum and terminates at the root 

 of the caudal. Uniform brown, or with dark vertical bands. A more 

 or less broad margin of the dorsal, and the upper and lower margins 

 of the caudal whitish ; sometimes a round black spot behind the eye. 

 Sea of Madeira. Caribbean Sea. West coast of Central America. 



a, b, c. Fine specimens. Madcii-a. 



d-e. Half-gro-ftTi. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 



/, g-i. Adult and half- grown. Island of Cordova. Presented by 

 G. U. Skinner, Esq. 



I: Yoimg. West coast of Central America. Collected by Captain Dom". 

 Presented by Dr. P. L. Sclater, Seer. Zool. Soc. — This specimen 

 differs scJmewhat from the others in the number of the fin-rays : 

 D. ^, A. 2 + 22 ; it has, moreover, the caudal truncated. Other- 

 mse it is perfectly identical mth the Atlantic specimens : it has 

 the whitish margins of the caudal, the black spot behind the 

 eye, &c. 



I. Adiilt : skeleton. Madeira. From the Collection of the Zoological 

 Society. 



The infestinal tract is more than three times as long as the entire bodj'. 

 The structure of the skeleton is very similar to that of the Blennies ; 

 the jaw-bones, however, ai'e still shorter, and the intermaxillary and 

 manchbulary are deeply concave anteriorly. There are twelve abdo- 

 minal and twenty-two caudal vertebroe, the former portion being only 

 half as long as the caudal. 



6. Salarias nitidus. 

 D. 33. A. 2-1-22. V. 2. 



The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is six 

 times and a half in the total. The forehead projects slightly beyond 

 the snout. A canine tooth in the lower jaw, none in the upper. A 

 slender simple tentacle above each orbit, a small one at the nostril, 

 none on the neck. The dorsal fin is not notched, commences above 

 the operculum and terminates immediately before the caudal ; it is 

 lower than the body, but somewhat higher than the anal. Yellow- 

 ish (in spirits), with eight brown cross-bands ; head and body with 

 pearl-coloured, purple-edged dots, those of the head in small number 

 and round, those of the body numerous and oblong. Dorsal fin with 

 brown spots, continued from the bands of the body to the basal half 

 of the fin ; the marginal half with two series of white dots. Caudal 

 with four transverse series of white dots. Anal transparent, im- 

 maculate, or ■with a series of white dots along its base. 



Chinese Sea. 

 a-c, China. Presented by Captain Sii' E. Belcher, C.B. 

 d. From the Haslar Collection. 



lines. 



Total length 23 



Length of the head 3? 



Height of the body '<il 



tt2 



