SALAJilAS. 



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Tropical and Subtropical Seas, a few species in fresh waters. Tlie 

 latter have one representative in ISIatlagascar and the Mascarene 

 Islands. 



1. SALAKIAS MONOCHROUS. 

 Altiais monoi-h-oiig, Bleck. Yorsl. Ak. Am.-tcnl. (•>) iii. 1SC,[). \^. 2;M. ami Poiss. 



Madiig. p. ()0, i>l. xvi. tijj,. 2 (1874); Sauv. Hist. Mailag., Toiss. p. 391, 



],!. xxxix. ficrs. ] &2 (18'.)1). 

 Alliriis asjihi-; Bleck. 11. cc. Ji. 2:!."), and p. Ill, ]'\. xvi. fig. 1. 



Body compressed, its deptli 8 to S^ times in total lengtli ; liead 5i to 

 (i times in total length. A dermal crest on the head in the adult male ; 

 eye 4 to 5 times in lengtli of head ; a bifid tentacle above the eye ; 

 canine teeth present in male. Dorsal XIV 22, originating on occiput, 

 simple rays more or less produced into filaments, the anterior at least 



Ft'. 67. 



Salarias monocliroiis. 

 (S , after Bleeker (Poiss. Madag.). 



as long as head. Anal 24-26. Pectoral much longer than head. 

 Ventral Avith 4 rays. Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle deeper than 

 Ion;?. Dark purplish brown, uniform or with black cross-bars. 



Total length 110 millim. 



Sambirano 11., Madagascar ; IJeuniou. — Type in Leyden Museum. 



The occurrence of the INIediterranean Blenniid Cristiccps argcntatiis, 

 Kisso, in one of the " rigoles d'ecoulement " of tlie Fontaine Malakoff, 

 an artesian well between Algiers and Laghouat, reported by Phiyfair 

 iiud Letourneux, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) viii. 1871, p. 3SG, on the 

 authority of a M. Fanton, of Algiers, cannot be admitted until confirmed. 

 The specimen described by the above authors is not preserved in the 

 Museum. 



