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Color in spirits dark, smoky, bluish brown; caudal peduncle with traces of darker bands or blotches; 
head with fine punctulations; an oblong blue spot on each opercle (sex marking ?); dorsals dusky in both 
rays and membranes, the spinous dorsal with three or four and the soft dorsal with eight or ten narrow 
longitudinal or obliquish and more or less zigzag streaks of darker; outer edges of both dorsals pale; caudal 
crossed transversely with zigzag bars of dusky, in places more or less mottled, or the light spaces taking 
the form of small circular spots; anal dusky, darker submarginally, and with a very narrow pale outer 
edge; pectoral pale, transparent, except for the six or seven middle rays, each of which bears one or 
two minute but conspicuous black dots about midway of its length. 
A single specimen, 2.50 inches long, from Calayan. 
This fish agrees substantially with Salarias deani Jordan & Seale in measurements, fin counts, etc., 
and in the absence of nuchal tentacles. The different coloration and the presence of a nuchal crest 
are apparently distinctive, but may be sexual characters of the male. 
Family CONGROGADID. 
CONGRODADUS Ginther. 
(Machzxrium Richardson, preoccupied; MHierichthys Jordan & Fowler.) 
291. Congrogadus subducens (Richardson). (J/ierichthys encryptes Jordan & Fowler.) 
Head 6.50 in total length; 6.20 in length without caudal; depth at front of anal 1.75 in head; eye 
5.30 in head, 1.50 in snout; maxillary 2.20 in head; teeth in lower jaw more than 40 on a side; dorsal 
76; anal 65; pectoral 2.66 in head; dorsal beginning over posterior fourth of pectorals; anal beginning 
under twelfth ray of dorsal; scales more than 200 in a longitudinal series (240, estimated, on a count 
of }); lateral line terminating under twelfth to fourteenth ray @ of dorsal; cheeks scaled. 
Color in spirits, light grayish brown, rather sparsely mottled and spotted with darker; a dark spot 
on opercle; dorsal and anal each with a basal row of dark spots. Life color: ‘‘ Dark red, irregularly 
spotted with dark brown and mottled with gray; belly, throat, and chin marked with large white spots; 
a row of large dark spots along base of dorsal; dorsal, caudal, and ventrals pale, the membranes more 
or less regularly spotted with light reddish.’ (McGregor.) 
Our three specimens, 7 to 9 inches long, all from Cuyo, agree with the description of Machxrium 
reticulatum Bleeker, regarded as a synonym of the present species by Doctor Giinther, who had both 
Richardson’s type and specimens of Machxrium reticulatum from Doctor Bleeker’s collection. Hier- 
ichthys encryptes Jordan & Fowler, described from the Riu Kiu Islands from a young specimen in which 
all color has faded, is apparently not different from the present species. 
292. Congrogadus hierichthys Jordan & Richardson, new species. Tamayo. 
Head 5.75 in length to base of caudal; depth at front of anal 1.3 in head; eye 5 in head, 1.60 in 
nose; maxillary 2.50 in head; lower jaw somewhat longer than upper, the teeth on one side between 
Fig. 11.—Congrogadus hierichthys, new species. Type. 
25 and 30; dorsal 57; anal 46; pectoral 2.60 in head; dorsal beginning over tip of pectoral; anal begin- 
ning under tenth ray of dorsal; scales 160; lateral line terminating under sixth or eighth ray of dorsal; 
cheeks scaled. 
Color in spirits nearly uniform brownish, vaguely mottled and clouded with darker; a conspicuous 
roundish black spot on opercle, a little smaller than eye, surrounded by a narrow border of pale; a 
«Not running the whole length of body, as wrongly indicated in Richardson’s figure, an error which led to the estab- 
lishment of the nominal genus, Hierichthys. 
