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well defined, paired cross-bauds, Avhicli are of irregular form and much 

 interrupted by intermediate markings ; the posteriur half with roauiled, 

 daik spots. Head markings similar to those of the male. Dorsal fins 

 closely covered with dark spots, which tend to form horizontal rows on 

 the spinous portion, and oblique ones on the soft. Anal with dark spots 

 in longitudinal rows. Caudal and pectorals almost plain, the former 

 with some dark spots basally. 



Described and figured from two specimens 114-120 mm. lon^-, from 

 Masthead Island. Though differing in the colour marking, they are 

 evidently sexual forms of the same species, since Ave find the same 

 characters in series of specimens from several localities. Those in which 

 the fins are spotted lack the occipital crest, while specimens in which it 

 is present have the fins striped ; smaller specin)ens exhibit charactei's 

 which are intermediate between the two adult forms. 



Lacs. — Masthead Island, off" Port Curtis, Queensland (figured speci- 

 mens) ; coll. A. R. McCulloch. Murray Island, Torres Strait; coll. 

 Hedley and McCulloch. Lord Howe Island, New Hebrides, Sanma and 

 Funafuti. 



Salarias mulleri, KluiiziiKjer. 



Salaridn mulleri, Klunzinger, Sitzb. Akad. AViss. Wien, Ix.vx., 1879, p. ^^SS. 



Id., Weber, " Siboga " Exped., Ivii., 1913, p. 535. 



The specimens on which this species was based were said to have been 

 obtained in Hobson's Bay, Victoria, but no species of the genus is known 

 to occur so far south. Specimens from the indo-Australian Archipelago 

 have been identified by Webei' as li. iindleri. The species is unknown to 

 us. 



Salarias .meleacris, C'uvier and Valenciennes. 



Sahirids ineleaijrit!, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi., 1836, 



p. 332. Ld., Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., iii., ISGl, p. 256 and 



i'ische Siidsee, vi., 1877, p. 208. Id., Steindachner, Sitzb. Akad. 



Wiss. Wien, Ivi. i., 1867, p. 316. Id., Giinther, Ann. Mag. Nat. 



Hist. (3), XX., 1867, p. 62. Id., Klunzinger, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. 



Wien, Ixxx. i., 1879, p. 388. Id., Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. 



Wales, vi., 1881, pp. 11 and 13. 

 Sidiiriut^ biserliitns, Allej^ne and ISIacleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, i., 



1877, p. 336 (not S. biseri(itn.<!, Cuvier and Valenciennes.) 



D. xii-xiii/19-20; A. i-ii/19-20; P. 14; V. 3 ; C. 13. Depth 4.6-5.4 

 in the length to the hypui-al joint; head 4.4-4.8 in the same. P]ye 

 3.09-4.2 in tlie head. Third dorsal spine 1.9-2, thirteenth dorsal ray 

 1.3-1.7, seventeenth anal I'ay 1.6-2.1 in the head. 



Head longer than high, with the forehead subvertical. Eyes 

 separated by a very narrow concave interorbital space. Occipital crest 

 present or absent. A large oculai' tentacle, which is fi-inged on both sides ; 

 nasal tentacle palmate ; a simple nuchal tentacle present or absent, 

 occasionally developed on one side only. No mandibular canine. Upper 

 lip with a crenulate margin. Maxillai-y reaching well beN'ond the eye. 



Doi'sal fin deeply not(-hed, the second or thiid spine highest, but 

 mucli lower than the rays; the length of the spinous poi-tion is a little 

 shorter than that of the soft. Dorsal rays increasing slightly in length 



