10 RECORDS OP THK. AUSTRALIAN MDSEDM. 



/. Upper lip crennlate ; 19-20 dorsal rays ; body with small, light ocelli 



meleagris. 

 ff. Upper lip not crenixlate ; 21-23 dorsal rays ; hody without light ocelli. 



g. Body with thin, dark, longitudinal lines; caudal plain liueaius. 



gg. Body without longitudinal lines. 



(S. belenuiites, de Vis, apparently enters this section). 



/(. No occipital crest ; soft dorsal and caudal without dark borders 



dusSHiuieri. 



hh- An occipital crest ; soft doi'sal and caudal with dark borders 



geminatus. 



Salarias FASCIATCS, Bloch. 

 Bleniiiiis (jattorugine, Forskal, Descr. Aiiim., 1775, p. 23 (not of Linne). 

 Bleiniiiis fasciafus, BIocli, Ausl. Fiscli., ii., 1786, p. 110, pi. clxii., fig. 1. 



Id., Bonnaterre, Encycl. Metli,, Ichth., 1788., p. 53, pi. xxxi., fig. 



114. Id, Blocli and Schneider, Syst. Iclith., 1801, p. 167. 

 S((liirias fdsciatus, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi., 1836, 



p. 324. Id., Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., iii., 1861, p. 244. Id., 



Day, Fish. India, 1876, p. 330. Id., Giinther, Fische Siidsee, vi., 



1877, p. 201, pi. cxv., fig. h. Id., Alleyue and Macleay, Proc. Linn. 



Soc. N.S.Wales, i., 1877, p. 336. Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 



N.S.Wales, vi., 1881, p. 10. Id., Ogilby, Mem. Qld. Mus., i., 1912, 



p. 60. 

 Erpicfhy^ f((sciatns, Swainson, Nat. Hist. Class. Fish. An)pli. Rept., ii., 



1839,"p. 275. 

 Si(hirii(s qvadripennis, Riippell, Atl. Reise Nordl. Afrika, 1828, p. 112, 



[)]. xxviii., fig. 2. S. (pKidriphinis (emend.), Cuvier and Valenci- 

 ennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi., 1836, p. 318. 

 l^uhtriiis jjr'uiDteusis, Bleeker, Nat. Tijd. Ned. Ind., iv., 1853, p. 268. 

 Salarias semill)ieatus, Kner, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ivi., 1867, fig. 5. 

 Salari((s ]i)ieolatns, Alleyue and Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, i., 



1877, p. 336, pi. xiii., fix. 2. Id., Jouan. Mem. Soc. Nation. Sci. Nat. 



Cherbouig, xxi„ 1877, p. 332. 

 Salarias (jriseas, de Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, viii., 1884, p. 450. 

 Salarias pauper, de Vis, Lor. cii., ix., 1884, p. 695. 

 Sidarias suhlineatus, de Vis, Ihid., p. 695. 

 Salarias furvus, de Vis, Ihid., p. 696. 

 Alliens qriseiis, Jordan and Seale, Bull. U.S. Fish. Bur., xxv., 1906, p. 



424. Id., Ogilby, Mem. Qld. Mus., iii., 1915, p. 135. 

 AlticHs paiiper and A. suhlineaUi)^, Ogilby, Ihid. 



D. xii-xiii/18-19; A. ii/20; P. 14; V. 2; C. 11 vel 13. Depth at 

 the vent 4 in the length to the hypural joint; head 4.2-4.9 in the same. 

 Eye 3.3-3.6 in the head. Penultimate dorsal spine 1.6-1.8, median dorsal 

 rays 1.05-1.2, third anal ray 1.1-1.4 in the head. 



Head about as high as long, with the forehead vertical and project- 

 ing slightly before the eyes. Interocular si)ace concave. No occipital 

 crest. A laige branched ocular tentacle, and a smaller one at each 

 anteiior nostril ; nuchal tentacles approximate, broad and fringed. A 

 very small internal canine is present on each side of the mandible. Mar- 

 gin of u[)per lip entire, maxilla reaching slighflj' beyond the hinder 

 orbital border. 



