326 EXPEDITION OF THE • AEliATKOSS," 1,S'.)!) 1900. 



Alticus caudolineatus (uMhkk. 



Jordan & Seale, Bull. l'. S. Bur. Fish., 190(i, 25, p. 4-j:;. 



Salaria^ candolinealti.'i Vji'STHER, Fische tier SiidsiT, 1S77. 6, ]>. '2i)U, lai'. 1 Iti, li;;. F. 



No. 05909, :\I. C. Z. 29583 ( 1 .'specimen), 2 specimens 2 and li inches long 

 (poor condition) from Rangiroa, Paumotu Islands. 



Dorsal XII, I, 20; anal 21; simple supraorbital tentacle, and a hitid nasal 

 tentacle. Our sjiecimens do not agree exactl\' in the almxe characters with 

 (iiinther's description. 



Salarias lineatus (i \ikk & N'ai.em iknnes. 



Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1830, 11, p. 232 (314). Day, F'ishes of Iiulia, INTO, p. 332, pi. 70, fig. 8. Jordan 

 & Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish.. 1906, 25, p. 426. 



One specimen, No. 08915, M. ('. Z. 29370, 21 inches long from Arhno Atoll, 

 Marshall Islands. 



Head 5 in body; depth 5; ej'e 3.42 in head; dorsal XII (I), 23; anal 25; 

 no crest. 



Moderately slender, head bluntly rounded, profile ste(>p, a shoi't fiinged 

 nasal cirrus; a supraocular cirrus is sharply triangular and fringed on l>oth sides. 



Color in alcohol: grountl color on to]i of head and back light bi'ownish 

 gray, faintly mottled with darker and lighter on back; about 3 rows of small 

 black longitudinal spots beginning on a line under jiosterior 4th of dorsal and 

 extending on body to base of caudal: cautlal irregularly blotched with dark 

 brown, l)ut with a sharply defined narnnv dark l)i-own band running from the 

 middle of the upper margin obli(|uely downwai'd and backwai'd: longitudinal 

 light streaks on side, making broken lines, these being less broken farther down 

 on the .side, showing faintly near base (A anal; sides witli alioiit 12 pairs of 

 purplish brown cro.ss bars somewhat trianguhir in siiape with a wide angle, ape.x 

 forward; color most intense on axis of body but contiiniing faintly toward 

 dor.sal and anal; 4 or 5 faint light bars across cheeks: 2 dark bars across base of 

 pectoral; dorsals finely punctate, a brownish margin on .soft dorsal anteriorly, 

 arowof very faint dark spots on base of soft dorsal, arranged in pairs posteriorly; 

 anal plain, pale, with a few fine pu net ulat ions on the upper margins of nienibranes 

 and rays anteriorly. 



