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paler olive, forming interrupted lines, the lowest nearly continuous; some dark cross-shades on lowef 

 part of head; fins dark olive; dorsal and caudal pale edged; tentacle and crest dull olive. Dorsal 

 notched, the spines higher than the soft rays. 



1606. Salarias fas'ciatus (Bloch). Samoa; Tonga; Vanicolo; Ponape; Ea.st Indies. 



Wnviiiiflns.i<ttii.imiM-h. H. 112, tnf. 16J, fif.'. 1, 1870, Japan. 



.'Jiitari'.is '/.'</ .,-"., Ku||" II Ail.'i. Fi-i lir, U'J, taf. 28, fig. 2, 1S28, Red Sea. Ciivier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. 



Pni" \ I ..■ ■ '- 'J. I ■III. I I ..':_ i: .'.'I \':inicOlo. 



.SWai/.K- I I I , I ,v . , . I , ■, I, I [. .it., 324, 1836. Gunther, Fische (ler Sud.'iee, 201, taf. 11.5, Sg. G, Ponape. 



Sn/ar/.is -. -w'. .'-!'. , Kri. I -11/ \k Wi- Wivn, LVI, 1867, fig. 3, Samoa. 



Life colors of a sitecimeu from Apia, brown, with oblong bluish spots; numerous small dark dots 

 and dashes on sides, liack of head and aliove pectoral, soon fusing and becoming lines which ext^id 

 backward to below middle of soft dorsal; dorsal brown with greenish white spots and brown dots, its 

 e<lge creamy red; caudal olive, speckled with brown and whitish, its upper edge washed with cherry- 

 red; anal like dorsal, dusky-edged; pectoral and ventral barred; belly livid; eight dark sliades at base 

 of dorsal. 



We have about 80 specimens of this species from the coral reef at Apia, where it is very common; 

 we have also 6 specimens from Pago Pago. 



1607. Salarias biseriatus (Cuvier & Valenciennes). Mano'oa'au. Tahiti; Samoa. 



Salarias biseriatus Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XI, 316, 1828, Tahiti. Kner, Novara Reise, Fisehe, 197, 

 taf. 8, fig. 4, 186.5. Tahiti. Gunther, Fisehe der Sudsee, 208, Tahiti. 



Life colors of a specimen from Pago Pago, blackish olive, violaceous below; sides with 4 rows of 

 \'iolet-white round spots, the third series most distinct and regular, the spots of the fourth row larger 

 and more diffuse; fins all dark, nearly plain. 



Another example was blackish olive with 8 to II white partial bands acros-s belly an<l ba,se of anal, 

 often not distinct before vent; head with small bluish white spots; a row of these spots more distinct 

 along upper line of ventral bars, others on sides forming a second irregular row, usually gathered in 

 pairs, one above the other, about 6 pairs of dark blotches along base of dorsal; fins dark, mottled with 

 darker; a black spot on front of first dorsal; soft dorsal with oblique pale streaks; caudal dusky olive; 

 ventral black; pectoral olive, with fine white dots. Dorsal divided, .xii, 18. 



A young individual from Pago Pago was violet-black or brown, with some 7 or 8 pale cross-streaks, 

 violet-tinged, narrower than the interspaces; 4 or .5 sharply defined white spots along side; head with 

 violaceous and greenish mottlings; caudal light yellow; dorsals dusky, mottled; anal pale; ventral 

 and anal dusky-translncent. Dorsal divided; no crest. 



Two specimens from near Aua, on the north shore of Tutuila, together with 152 other examples 

 from the same place, taken with dynamite among the lava rocks on the "iron-bound coast." One 

 specimen frcim .Vpia. 



1608. Salarias sindonis .Ionian & Seale, new species. Samoa. 



Head 4.2 in length; depth .5.7.5; eye 3 in head; interorbital space scarcely equal to eye; dor.sal 

 XII, 19; anal 21; lateral line short, ending under posterior part of spinous dorsal. 



Body elongate, compressed, the anterior profile of head rounded, the forehead not projecting; 

 angle of jaws under middle of eye; a short, simple orbital tentacle and a minute, fringed na.sal tentacle; 

 teeth in jaws in a single series, no posterior canines; dorsal fin incised to one-half its depth, its origin 

 over posterior margin of opercle, and its distal end terminating some distance anterior to caudal base, 

 the greatest vertical height of the fin about 3.5 in head; origin of anal nearer tip of snout than base 

 of caudal, considerably in advance of soft dorsal, the fin long, its base equal to distance from tip of 

 snout to origin of the fin, its longest ray 2.5 in head; pectoral equal to length of head; caudal rounded, 

 1.25 in length of head. 



Life colors, translucent gray, the head black, the body with about 6 pairs of dark cross-bands; con- 

 spicuous dark spots along base of dorsal; fins all pale, the concave caudal whitish; top of head with 

 many round, dark-brown dots; on nape these form a crescent, the horns of which reach posterior 

 margins of eyes; within this crescent the dots form a large spot; body and fins everywhere thickly 

 sprinkled with minute black specks. 



Another specimen was dark blackish green, with darker Cross-ljands and no other colors; top of 

 head and nape covered with many comparatively large, round, brown <\<itf; hmly and fins everywhere 

 covered with minute black dots. 



