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males, 56 and 68 mm. long, collected by Townsend on Mekran Coast, 

 Persia (types of Salarias phantasticus) , B. M. 97.9.22.20-21 (these are 

 like puUher types except that the posterior dorsal spines and caudal 

 rays are even longer and more extended ; black vertical lines, respec- 

 tively, 7 and 8; two tiny black dots on posterodorsal quarter of 

 orbit) ; 16 female, 32 to 58 mm. long, collected by Townsend in Persian 

 Gulf (the type series of Salarias anomaliis) , B. M. 1900.5.9.47-56; 

 1 female, 41 mm. long, collected by Stephens at Henjam Islands, Per- 

 sian Gulf, B. M. 1932.2.18.43; 1 female, 58 mm. long, collected by 

 Townsend at Hinderabi Islands, Persian Gulf, B. M. 98.6.29.163; 2 

 females, 29 and 34 mm. long, collected by Townsend at Jask, Mekran 

 Coast, Persia (these specimens have a short horizontal white bar on 

 the cheek under posterior part of eye — caudal and spinous dorsal 

 only barely lengthened) ; female, 61 mm. long, collected by Knox at 

 Muscat, B. M. 1912.11.26.1. 



Description. — ^Dorsal rays XII,19-20; anal 11,20-21; pectoral 14; 

 pelvic 1,3. 



Nasal cirrus slender, single, simple, pointed, about equal to eye in 

 length; forehead projecting, a concavity between it and upper lip; 

 eye high and large, reaching into anterior profile and almost into 

 dorsal profile; a single tiny canine on either side below, hidden in fold 

 of membrane at corner of jaw ; depth 5.2 to 5.7 ; head 4.3 to 4.5, both in 

 standard length ; dorsal deeply notched, the last spine about one-third 

 length of the next preceding; posterior dorsal spines elevated, their 

 tips free from the fin membrane, the fourth from the last as long as 

 head, its distal one-fourth free from membrane; membrane from last 

 ray reaching to, but not over, first small ray of caudal ; caudal with 

 12 principal rays, none branched, the second and eleventh rays long- 

 est, the fin forked, almost filamentous, longer than head in specimens 

 as much as 45 mm. long; anal spines of male both small and hidden 

 at base of first ray; no pads or swellings at tips of anal rays; last 

 ray bound fully to caudal peduncle but not reaching first caudal 

 rays; longest pectoral ray equal to postorbital length of head; long- 

 est pelvic ray less than two-thirds postorbital length of head. 



Coloration. — Male : Head, throat, and body rich, light brown (paler 

 below) and with no markings back to level of sixth dorsal ray; on 

 (his pale posterior part of body five or six equally spaced, narrow, 

 sharply defined dark vertical bars reaching from dorsal to ventral 

 edge of body ; the anterior line a little wider than pupil, the posterior 

 one a little narrower; in some specimens there may be a shorter 

 fine line between some of the main lines ; basal half of spinous dorsal 

 and all of soft dorsal evenly dusky; this area, while pigmented, 

 transparent and with no markings; distal half of spinous dorsal 

 pale, but bearing markings — an oval dark spot the size of pupil 



