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brilliant sih^er sheen, splashed with e((ually vivid zebra-like stripes, 

 which g-ave the tish a most strikino- appearance. The Hsh was a fragile 

 and delicate creature, a very ghost of a tish, which swam along, when 

 the water gently lapped the sands, with an nndnlatory motion, looking 

 like one of its names — the ribbon-Hsh." 



Family BLENNTID.T^]. 



STARKSIA HOLDERI Lauderbach, new species. 



Head 8^ in length to base of caudal; depth 5; eye 4 in head; snout 

 3; maxillary 2i; dorsal XXV, 11; anal II, 23; scales 51. 



Maxillar}" extending l)ack to below posterior edge of pupil. Jaws 

 even in front;, the lips rather thick. An outer series of rather large 

 blunt teeth on sides and front of jaws, the anterior ones slightly the 

 larger; behind these a band of villiform teeth wide in front but taper- 

 ing quickly to a point at sides of jaws; the l)and wider and extending 

 a little farther back on upper jaw than on lower; a band of similar 

 teeth on vomer, and a rather large ovate patch on front of each pala- 

 tine, not continuous with vomerine patch. A fringed tentacle on 



FiCi. (1. — STAKKSIA HOI-DERI. 



anterior nostril; a pair of simple hlaments above each eye, each pair 

 springing from a common base; their length equal to diameter of 

 pupil; a shorter tritid flap at nape, its separate filaments imited only 

 at base. Interor})ital space Hat; its width equal to one-half diameter 

 of eye. Top of head with rather large conspicuous pores. Iimer edge 

 of shoulder girdle with a sharp ridge ending abruptly opposite upper 

 end of pectoral l)aso and forming a slight notch, but no hook present. 

 Gill membrane broadly united, free from istlunus. 



Head and iins naked; rather large c3^cloid scales on body; two scales 

 between middle of lateral line arch and outline of back; live scales 

 between posterior angle of lateral line and ventral outline of body; 

 arched part of lateral line scarcely shorter than straight part. 



Second dorsal spine the longest, its length equal to postorbital part 

 of head; behind the second spine the outline of the tin is concave: the 



