6. SALARIAS. 24'.i 



begins above the middle of the operculum and terminates at the root 

 of the caudal. Uniform brown, or witli dark vertical bands. A more 

 or less broad margin of the dorsal, and the upper and lower margins 

 of the caudal whitish ; sometimes a round black spot behind the eye. 

 Sea of Madeira, Caribbean Sea. West coast of Central America. 



a, b, c. Fine specimens. Madeira. 



d-e. Half-grown. From the Collection of the Zoological Society-. 



/, g-i. Adult and half- grown. Island of Cordova. Presented by 

 G. U. Skinner, Esq. 



k. Young. "West coast of Central America. Collected by Captain Dow. 

 Presented by Dr. P. L. Sclater, Seer. Zool. Soc. — This specimen 

 diifers somewhat from the others in the number of the fin -rays : 

 D. ^, A. 2+22 ; it has, moreover, the cau'lal truncated. Other- 

 wise it is perfectly identical with the Atlantic specimens : it has 

 the whitish margins of the caudal, the black spot behind the 

 eye, &c. 



I. Adult : skeleton. Madeira. From the Collection of the Zoological 

 Society. 



The intestinal tract is more than three times as long as the entire body. 

 The structure of the skeleton is very similar to that of the Blcnnies ; 

 the jaw-bones, however, are still shorter, and the intermaxillary and 

 mandibulary are deenly concave anteriorly. There are twelve abdo- 

 minal and twenty-two caudal vertebr®. the former portion being only 

 half as long as the caudal. 



6. Salarias nitidus. 

 D. 33. A. 2-1-22. V. 2. 



The height of the body equals the length of the head, and is six 

 times and a half in the total. The forehead projects slightly beyond 

 the snout. A canine tooth in the lower jaw, none in the upper. A 

 slender simple tentacle above each orbit, a small one at the nostril, 

 none on the neck. The dorsal fin is not notched, commences above 

 the operculum and terminates immediately before the caudal ; it is 

 lower than the body, but somewhat higher than the anal. Yellow- 

 ish (in spirits), with eight brown cross-bands ; head and body with 

 pearl-coloured, purple-edged dots, those of the head iu small number 

 and round, those of the body numerous and oblong. Dorsal fin \vith 

 brown spots, continued from the bands of the body to the basal half 

 of the fin ; the marginal half with two series of white dots. Caudal 

 with four transverse series of white dots. Anal transparent, im- 

 maculate, or with a series of white dots along its base. 



Chiaese Sea. 



a-c. China. Presented by Captain Sir E. Belcher, C.B. 

 d. From the Haslar Collection. 



lines. 



Total length 23 



Length of the head 3ri- 



Height of the body :iX 



k2 " 



