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ray slender, shorter than second and so closely bound to it as to be 

 clearly visible only by dissection. 



ColGratio7i. — Male: Background of head and body light brown; 

 a dark band as wide as eye extending straight back from posterior 

 edge of eye to a vertical from about middle of spinous dorsal; two 

 faint light bands about as wide as pupil running horizontally on body 

 to base of caudal, one from upper edge of opercle, the other from be- 

 low pectoral ; eight narrow, dark, transverse bars spaced on body, run- 

 ning from base of dorsal down to, but not across, lower pale longi- 

 tudinal band ; two or three of these bars may be split dorsally ; the last, 

 on caudal peduncle, is C-shaped with the opening posterior ; no spots 

 or other markings on head or body ; both lips dusky ; anal fin with a 

 dusky submarginal band, tips of rays white ; other fins with no mark- 

 ings. Female: essentially the same coloration as male. 



Remarks. — This species is probably the Marshall Island cognate of 

 E. pro-oculis^ with which it shares many characters, but from which it 

 difi'ers as indicated in the key. The color is generally less dark than 

 in E. pTO-oculis and the markings are therefore less sharply defined. 



ECSENIUS BICOLOR (Day) 



Figure 94 



Salaries hicolor Dat, Supplement to the fishes of India, p. 798 (on Tickell ms.) 

 1888 (type locality, Saddle Island, Kyoukphyoo Aracan) ; The fauna of 

 British India . . ., vol. 2, Fishes, p. 323, 1889 (on type material).— Webee, 

 Die Fische der Si&oi/a-Bxpedltion, vol. 57, p. 583, 1913 (eastern tip of Timor). 



Salarais furcatus (non De Vis 1884) Johnstone, Report of Ceylon Pearl Oyster 

 Fisheries, toI. 2, No. 15, p. 213, pi. 1, fig. 4, 1904 (type locality, Chilam Paar, 

 Ceylon, at 15 to 20 meters depth). — Whitlet, Rec. Australian Mus., vol. 17, 

 No. 3, p. 13(j, 1929 (notes that this species is not the same as that of De Vis). 



Salarias iurmanicus Hora and Mukesji, Rec. Indian Mus. Calcutta, vol. 38, p. 

 34, 1938 (type locality, Maung. Magan, Tavoy District, lower Burma). 



Specimens. — 11 specimens, 31 to 49 mm. long, collected by Chapman 

 and Cheyne at Espiritu Santos, New Hebrides Island, U.S.N3I. Nos. 

 144716, 144293 and 144294; 6 specimens, 30 to 49 mm. long, collected 

 by Andrews at Christmas Island (the type series of Salarias melano- 

 somMi Began), B. M. 1909.3.4.52-57; 1 specimen, 44 mm. long, from 

 Godeif roy Museum, from Ponape, B.M. 81.10.20.139 ; 2 specimens, 42 

 and 49 mm. long, from Godeffroy Museum, from Ponape, B.M. 81.10.- 

 20.137; 1 specimen, 38 mm. long, collected by Weber at S Ihoga stditiow 

 282, Oosthock of Timor. 



Description.— Dorsal rays XII,16-17 ; anal 11,18-20 ; pectoral 13-14 ; 

 pelvic, 1,3. 



Nasal cirrus double; cirrus on dorsal side of nasal pore simple, 

 slender, pointed, and equal to or a little greater than diameter 

 of eye in length; cirrus on ventral edge of pore usually simple, but 

 may be forked or even nearly double, half the length of the dorsal 



