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284 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 
SALARIAS Cuvier. 
287. Salarias rivulatus Riippell. 
Salarias rivulatus Riippell, Atlas, Africa, 114, 1828; Red Sea. Jordan & Seale, Bul. U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, xxv, 1905 (1906), 
29; Se a. 
ee Panarnortts Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., x1, 329, 1836; Ile de France. Gunther, Cat. Fishes, m1, 255° 
Fische der Siidsee, 209, taf. 117, fig. B, 1877; Upolu, Paumotu, Tahite. Klunzinger, Fische des Rothen Meeres, 486, 1871; 
Red Sea. 
Salarias oryx (Ehrenberg) Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XI, p. 327; Red Sea. 
Head 4.16; depth 4.50; depth of caudal peduncle 2.33 in head; eye 3.75; interorbital space 2 in eye; 
a pair of simple tentacles above orbits and on nape, each about half diameter of eye; nasal tentacles short, 
fringed; a crest on nape (in male) as high as half diameter of orbit; dorsal xi or xm, 20; anal 23; pectoral 
1 in head; ventral 1.3; dorsals of almost equal height, deeply notched; soft dorsal adnate to basal third 
of caudal. ‘ 
Color in spirits, smoky bluish brown; the body with many narrow, vertical, obliquish, or zigzag 
streaks darker than the ground color, which is smoky brown; fins dusky, the dorsals crossed longitudi- 
nally by several (the spinous dorsal by three) oblique pale streaks; anal with at least one median 
longitudinal pale streak and with a very narrow outer edging of pale. 
Two specimens, 2.50 inches long, from Calayan. These specimens, except for a very slight differ- 
ence in the number of soft dorsal rays, agree very well with Gimther’s description and figure of Salarias 
quadricornis Cuvier & Valenciennes, and with the specimens obtained by Jordan & Kellogg in Samoa. 
Riippell’s rivulatus (var. rivulatus of Klunzinger) with elongate, black-edged, yellow spots, is said to 
represent a mere color variation of the probably more typical form called quadricornis by Cuvier & 
Valenciennes and Ginther. 
288. Salarias fasciatus (Bloch). Palu. 
Head 4.60; depth 3.60; eye 3; orbital tentacles bi- or tri-branched; nuchal tentacles in the form of 
a fringed tuft, each with 6 or 8 projections; dorsal 31; anal 19; spinous and soft dorsals continuous. 
Color in spirits brownish with blue wash; anterior dorsal region with numerous small bluish or dusky 
spots, these becoming elongate about middle of side and backward, where they form incomplete longi- 
tudinal streaks; traces of crossbands on hinder part of body, apparently continued upward more or less 
on soft dorsal; spinous dorsal mottled and spotted, with several rather large circular pale spots; caudal 
and pectorals with prominent specks in the rays, those on the pectorals quite squarish; breast crossed 
by a blue band; ventrals specked in the rays like pectorals. 
One specimen, 3.30 inches long, from Cagayancillo. On the life colors of this specimen Mr. McGregor 
has the following note: ‘‘Mottled and lined with dark green and black; on side below posterior half of 
dorsal about twelve spots of sky blue; a few spots of the same color about eye.”’ 
The present specimen does not differ from the smaller one recorded by Jordan & Seale from southern 
Negros (Dean collection), nor from the example from Ishigaki, Riu Kiu, Japan, described as Salarias 
ceramensis Bleeker by Jordan & Snyder. It is possible that Bleeker’s S. ceramensis is not different from 
the present species. Specimens of this species from Apia, Samoa, obtained by Jordan & Kellogg, have 
a row of blue spots,“ each with a light center, on the upper part of the caudal peduncle, and have the 
fins, especially the caudal, more heavily marked than in the Philippine and Japanese specimens. 
289. Salarias edentulus (Bloch & Schneider). 
Head 4.50 to 4.75; depth 4.25 to 4.50; depth caudal peduncle 2.5 in head; eye 3.50; interorbital 
space 2 in eye; dorsal xr or xu, 21; anal 21 or 22; pectoral 1.1 in head; ventral 1.2; tentacles simple; 
no crest; dorsals rather deeply notched; back of trunk, tail, dorsals, and caudal fin with numerous 
small spots. 
Two specimens from Calayan, 3.50 inches. 
290. (?) Salarias deani Jordan & Seale (male (?), or new species (?)). 
Head 4.60; depth 5.80; depth caudal peduncle 2.25 in head; eye 3.30; interorbital space 2 in eye; 
a single slender simple tentacle over each orbit, nearly as long as eye; no nuchal tentacles; nasal tenta- 
cles three- or four-branched; a moderate nuchal crest, as high as width of pupil (¢ ?); dorsal xm, 20; 
anal 21; pectoral 1.16 in head; ventral 1.50; dorsals both low, notched about halfway to base; longest 
dorsal spine 1.50 in head; longest ray 1.30; soft dorsal terminating above base of caudal; teeth uniserial 
in both jaws; no canines. 
aJn this respect agreeing with Giinther’s ‘‘ variety’ (specimen from Red Sea), Cat., 1m, 245. 
