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mottled; tins also mottled; the anal dark, with a i)ale edge. Some 

 specimens liigbly variegated, the caudal banded and with black and 

 white spots ; pale streaks from the eye across the cheek ; dark bars on 

 sides, extending on dorsal. Most specimens have the region above 

 anal with nnmerous round whitish spots and some dark ones. These 

 spots sometimes nearly obsolete, most evident on the paler specimens. 

 The synonomy of this species is uncertain. It is evidently the Blennins 

 crinitus of Gunther and the Blennins asterias of Bean, i)robably the 

 nuchijilis of Cuv. and Val., and in all probability the cristatus of 

 Linnieus also. These nominal species are from various localities in the 

 Atlantic. If our specimens are all alike, all these forms most likely 

 belong to one species. 



100. Salariichthys textilis (Quoy & Gaimard). 

 One si)ecimen from the Abrolhos Islands. 



Dorsal, xii, IG; anal, is. Olive with 13 silvery cross streaks, not 

 half as wide as the dark interspaces; some of the cross streaks Y-shaped. 

 Both dorsals with cross markings, the second Avith twelve to thirteen 

 streaks of dark obli(jueIy upward and backward, alternating with similar 

 pale s-treaks. Cross bars on sides bent in middle, extending up and 

 back and down and back from middle line i>arallel with muscular im- 

 pressions. Sides with some obscure pale dots; caudal barred with 7 

 dark bars; anal darkest mesially ; lower side of head with dark streaks 

 radiating from the isthmus; bars at chin Y-shaped, upper part of head 

 with darker markings; pectoral nearly plain ; a dusky area at base below 

 which a dusky spot; marblings at base of dorsal ; a few bluntish teeth 

 on vomer; tentacles very small, fringed over nostril and eye, simple on 

 neck; canines quite short; depth 4§^, head 4f; pectoral short, little 

 longer than head ; gill membrane broadly united, free from isthmus; 

 dorsal notched almost to base, free from caudal; orbital filament ^ 

 eye. 



This specimen agrees fairly with the account given by Jenyns, but 

 Jenyns describes five bars on the tail. It also agrees fairly with the 

 account of the Bermuda specimens given by Goode. It is evidently 

 the SaJarias vomerinus of Cuv. & Val., and probably their textilis also; 

 but their description of the latter does not apply very well to the color- 

 ation of our specimen. 



BATRACHID^. 



101. Marcgravia cryptocentra (Cuv. & Val.). 



Color, brown, clouded with black, the markings irregular and in 

 coarse pattern; fins similar; ventral with a broad whitish edge; bead 

 more finely mottled; below reticulated with white; a black spot at 

 center of base of pectoral; large fringed cirri above eye; skin rather 

 thin and smooth; cirri about lower jaw, and some small ones on top of 

 head. No pore in axil of pectoral, but some papillae there. Dorsal 



