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blenniidj:. 



SALARIAS QUADRICOENIS, Cuv. & Val. [No. 19219]. 



Halarias quadricornis, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. des Poiss., xi, 1836, 329, pi. 329.— GtJN- 

 THER, Cat. Fish., iii, 1861, 255.— Klunzingbk, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges., xxi, 1871, 

 Fische d. Koth. Meer, 476. 



D. 12 I 20. A. 21-23. V. 2. •; 



Dorsal notched, and continued on the base of the caudal. Head 

 crested. Tentacles over the eyes, on the sides of the neck, and at the 

 nostrils ; the latter are fringed the former are as long as the eye and 

 those on the neck are very short. Transverse streaks arranged in pairs 

 on the sides of the body and ascending on the dorsal fin at its base; 

 spinous dorsal with undulating lines; the soft dorsal with oblique lines 

 ascending backward ; the anal with three fine lines, the lowest of which 

 is discontinued anteriorly. The anterior dorsal is lower than the pos- 

 terior, and both are lower than the body and higher than the anal. 



Locality: Fanning Group. 



scaeidj:. 



PSEUDOSCAKUS GLOBICEPS, {Cuv.& Val.) GtJir. [No. 19220]. 



Scams globiceps, Cuv. & Val., Hist. Nat. des. Poiss., xiv, 1839, 242.— Jenyns, Voy. 



Beagle, Fishes, 1842, 106. 

 Pseudnscarus globiceps, Gunther, Cat. Fish., iv, 1862, 224 ; Fish. Zanz., 1866, 105. ^ 



Pscudoscarus spilonotus, Kner, Sitz. d. k. Ak. d. Wissen. Wieu, Iviii, i, 1868, 31, 352, 



pi. 9, f. 26. 



A deep black ocellus on the scale covering the base of the fourth^ 

 dorsal spine. Body spotted ; spots principally confined to the upper] 

 and anterior parts of the body. 



Locality: Fanning Group. 



PSEUDOSCAKUS JONESJ, n. sp. [No. 19221]. 



D. -fV ^-l- ^' ^^^- 24. L. trans. 8. Head, 3i. Height, 3^ in total.] 

 Jaws greenish ; lips very narrow, covering ouly the base of the jaw8| 

 Two series of scales on the cheeks; seven scales in the lower series] 

 the lower prseopercular limb entirely naked. Upper profile of the heac 

 convex, not gibbous. In one specimen there is a short tooth on eacl 

 side at the angle of the lower jaw, but it is absent in all the rest (three)| 

 Caudal lobes slightly produced. Fourteen rays in the pectoral fin. 



