424 THE VBUISE UF THE 'CUFAQOA.' 



PLATE XXXIII. Fig. B. 



SALABIAS COBONATUS. 

 D. 12 I 20. A. 20. 



The height of the body is contained six times in the total 

 length (without caudal), the length of the head five times and a 

 third ; the forehead projects a little beyond the mouth ; the 

 supraciHary tentacle is about as long as the eye, and terminates 

 into several fringes ; nuchal crest none ; a pair of canine teeth in 

 the lower jaw ; dorsal fin deeply notched ; pectoral nearly as long- 

 as the head. Flesli-coloured, with eight dark cross-bands as broad 

 as, or broader than, the interspaces, darkest on the edges ; back 

 ■with scattered brownish-violet spots smaller than the pupil ; sides 

 and upper surface of the head with round small yellow spots ; a 

 group on the crown of the head being placed in a circle ; throat 

 with three brownish-violet cross-bands ; vertical fins nearly im- 

 maculate, and witli a blackish margin; pectoral finely dotted witli 

 black. 



Solomon Islands. 



Length 3| inches. 



