18 RECORDS OK THE AUSTRALIAN MDSEDM. 



Salakias LiNEATUS, Giivier uitd ValenrJouies. 

 (Plate iv., fig. 1.) 



SaJariag liveutus, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi., 1836, 



p. 31-i. Id., Bleekei', Verli. Bat. Genootsch., xxii., 1849, Blenn. 



Gobioid, p. 18. Id., Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., iii., 1861, p. 



254. Id., Day, Fish. India, 1876, p. 382, pi. Ixx., fig. 8." Id., Jordan 



and Seale, Bull. U.S. Fish. Bar., xxv., 1906, p. 426. 



D. xiii/23 ; A. ii/24 ; P. 14 ; V. 2 ; C. 13. Depth 6 in the length to 

 the hypural joint; head 5 in the same. Bye 4.2 in tlie head. Fonrth 

 dorsal spine 1.1, seventeenth dorsal ray 1.2, third last anal ray 1.5 in the 

 head. 



Head longer than high, the forehead subvertical ; a high occipital 

 crest present in one sex, wanting in the other. A bi'oad palmate tentacle 

 above the eye, and a shorter one at the anterior nostril ; no nuchal 

 tentacle. Mouth reaching well beyond the vertical of the hinder orbital 

 margin. A single row of teeth in each jaw ; no canines. 



Dorsal fin deeply notched, commencing above the hinder part of the 

 operculum, the spinous portion much shorter tlian the soft ; the spines 

 are subequal in length in the anterior and median portions of the fin, 

 shorter posteriorl3^ Dorsal rays increasing slightly in length towards the 

 posterior portion of the fin, the last joined by membrane to the base of 

 tlie caudal. Anal rays increasing a little in length backwards, the last 

 not joined by membrane to the peduncle. Pectoral a little pointed, formed 

 of simple rays, the fifth lowest the longest and not nearly reacliing the 

 vertical of the vent. Inner ventral ray longest, reaching backward more 

 than one-third its distance from the vent. Caudal rounded, the inner 

 rays bifurcate. 



Colour iii((fL-iii(/. — Light bi'own in alcohol, with thin darker longitu- 

 dinal lines extending along the sides ; about six pairs of blackish spots on 

 the back, descending obliquely forward. Head with vertical wavy lines. 

 Doi'sal fins with oblique darker lines, which on the soft portion form a 

 submargiual series of zig-zag lines ; the outer portion of both fins greyish. 

 The other fins plain, the aual with a somewhat darker margin. 



Described and figured from a specimen 103 mm. long, from the New 

 Hebrides, which is appaieiitly a male. Others taken with it and supposed 

 to be females differ in lacking the occipital crest, while the second dorsal 

 has no submai-ginal baud of zig-zag lines. These differ from an Indian 

 specimen only in having the lines on the side of the body narrower. 



Lues. — Murray Island, Torres Strait ; coll. C. Hedley and A. R. 

 ]\IcCulloch. Andaman Islands ; Dr. Francis Day's Collection. New 

 Hebrides ; coll. Cummins and Stevens. 



Salakias dussumikri, Cnvirr 'oxJ Wiloiciemies. 

 (Plate iv., fig. 2.) 

 /S'"/" '■'".•'■ (hissiniiirri, Cuvier and Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi., 1836, 

 p. 310. /'/., Giinther, Brit. Mus. Cat. Fish., iii., 1861, p. 251. Id., 

 Day, Fish. India, 1876, p. 333, pi. Ixx., fig. 7. 

 S(-di(n'((s iniriden>;, Alleyne and Maclea}', Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, i., 

 1877, p. 338, pi. xiv,, fig. 2. Id., Macleay, Loc. elf., vi., 1881, p. 12. 

 S'dan'as churerU, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, vi., 1881, p. 12. 



