156 THE SHORE FISHES. 
Alticus biseriatus (Cuvimr & VALENCIENNES). 
Salarias biseriatus Cuv. & Vau., Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1828, 11, p. 316 (234). Giinruer, Fische der Siidsee, 
1877, 6, p. 208. 
Plate 7, fig. 2. 
Six specimens 1% to 21s inches long from Manga Reva. M. C. Z. 29408 
(2 specimens). 
The following color note in bottle with specimens: — ‘General color 
brownish; spots below 1st dorsal dark brown; black on crest and fins, lighter 
vermiculations under second dorsal, pearly.” 
The largest specimen, a male, 275 inches long, has the following measure- 
ments: — Head 4.5 in total length without caudal; depth 5.75; eye 4.00 in 
head; D. XII, 20; A. 22; soft dorsal separate from caudal fin; interorbital 
very narrow; ocular cirrus long and fringed on both sides; nasal cirrus small 
and simple; none on nape; crest well developed. 
Color in aleohol, head purplish gray above, very light below, the gray of top 
of head extending as narrowing streaks across the cheeks, gill-membranes and 
opercles; two streaks starting at lower posterior margin of eye, extending 
obliquely backward, uniting behind corner of mouth into a single dark line; a 
dark line from each corner of mouth on throat, converging posteriorly but not 
quite meeting; in front of these two similar lines meeting; about eight narrow 
dark lines or bars across upper lip; crest blue-gray with twelve or fourteen small 
round black spots on its posterior two thirds and one on anterior portion, a jet 
black pale edged margin above the posterior spots; pectoral pale, finely punctu- 
late with dusky; spinous dorsal gray with about six large, poorly defined brown — 
spots along base, and a broad irregular brown narrowly pale edged margin, 
membranes with numerous small brown spots and dots; soft dorsal grayish 
with a margin similar to spinous dorsal and numerous narrow white lines run- 
ning obliquely downward and forward; anal pale at base, outer two thirds 
dusky; caudal with a brown spot at base of middle rays, base of caudal other- 
wise yellowish, remainder translucent, crossed about its middle with a broad 
faint brown bar, the lower rays and terminal margin broadly dusky; belly plain 
white; back and sides, anterior margins of soft dorsal and anal gray with num- 
erous round brownish spots, around which the ground color makes pale vermicu- 
lations; about four pairs of broad irregular brown cross-bars on body under 
soft dorsal and on caudal peduncle; commencing just back of a point above the 
origin of anal is a longitudinal series of short white lines and spots which termi- 
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