0. SALARIAS. 



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the tail; the soft dorsal and the caudal with bhiish-white lines 

 ascending obhquely backwards on the former fin, lonoiTiSinal and 

 situated between the rays on the latter. Anal fin blaT wl^th thiee 



chw sS: """ '' ''"•'^' '^*^ P^^^*^*^ ^'^^^-^ '"^^ -"- 



"' \s?ETlch\'r"cl''""^- ''^"^'^^■^- f— ted by Captain 

 /, 9-h. Adult and half-grown. From the Haslar Collection. 



Total length inches, lines. 



Height of the body 

 Length of the head 



5 10 

 1 2 

 1 1 



46. Salarias oortii 



£lc'ek. Natuurk. Ti/dschr. Nedeti Inrl \ n 0^7 f\„ -tK a a ^ ^ 

 So. Indo-Nederl! iil, SunJra, p! lb!" ^" ^"^ ^^' ''"'* ^''- ^"'■ 



D. 12 I 19-21. A. 23-24. 



nnrA^7-'\f ^h^,""?^ is contained seven times to seven times 

 ;Tnl; 'r.^'w' *°S ^S^^' t'^^ l™8^h of the head six to seven 

 times. The mterorbital space is concave; the forehead does not 



Ed . rff'^' T?''^ f ^"""^<^^ -^«t - the crown S th 

 head ; a short fringed tentacle above the orbit and at the nostril 

 The lower jaw A^ath small canine teeth, which are scarcely Se in 



witii the caudal; the jjostenor portion is as high as the bodv and 

 higherthan the anterior and than the anal. Rose-colomet wfth 

 ri, 7f -^^'^^^..'^"•^'^gcd in pairs, and broader than the in e- 



5lf\^T.'- *^ ''°*'"°'' ^'''''^ ^°l^t' ^ith several undidated 

 whitish longitudinal stripes ; the posterior dorsal violet, yeUow a W 

 fte middle, with obhque bluish stripes inferiorly, anrl retLlated 

 with blue supenorly; the anal fin rose-coloured at the Sse and 

 violet on the marginal half. Caudal yellow, brownish at The base 

 and margins, the latter reticulated with blue. 

 Coasts of Western Sumatra and of the Moluccas. 



a. Adult. Sumatra. 



b. Half-grown. Java, 



c. Half-grown. Moluccas. 



Dr. V Bleeker's description of the species, as given above, a-rces 

 very well with the specimens in the British Museum; they hiJe 

 however, the body higher, it. depth being one-sixth of th^e total 



47. Salarias bilitonensis. 



Sleeker, BiUton, iv. p. 231. 



D. 12 I 20. A. (2 + ) 20-21. 



y^ui^'^^^ ""^ ^^"^ ^'"^^' '' contained eight times to eight times and 



s 



