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1610. Salarias rivulatus Ruppell. Samoa; Paumotu Is.; Tahiti; East Indies. 

 Salarias rieulatus Ruppell, Atlas, Africa, 114, 1828, Red Sea. 



Salarias qtiadricornis Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XI, 329, pi. 329, 183G, lie de France. Giinther, Cat., 

 in, 255, Indian Ocean, Chinese Sea. Giinther, Fische der Sudsee, 209, taf. 117, fig. B, Upolu, Paumotu, Tahiti- 

 Life colors of a specimen from Pago Pago, dark olive; several pairs of darker brown cross shades, 

 the last 3 resolving themselves into oblique streaks upward and backward; soft dorsal with oblique 

 dark streaks; caudal plain; anal dusky-edged. No crest; dorsal divided. 



Another specimen from the same locality was olive, with about 8 pairs of dark cross-bars, with 

 cross-streaks between, the last obscure; a dark oblique streak behind eye; dorsal with horizontal rows 

 of light olive spots, these more oblique on second dorsal; anal dusky-edged, with 2 pale blue longi- 

 tudinal lines; fins otherwise dusky olive. 



A third specimen from Pago Pago was blackish olive in life, with a series of dark marblings and 

 spots above lateral line, most distinct posteriorly, fainter below; dorsals similarly marbled; head dark; 

 cirri dusky; fins all blackish, uncolored; anal with 2 faint pale longitudinal lines. A younger one 

 shows faint paired dark cross-bands. 



About 75 specimens from the coral reefs of Apia and Pago Pago, where it is very abundant. 



1611. Salarias edentulus (Bloch & Schneider). Huahine; Samoa; Paumotu; Bonham; Raro- 



tonga; Fate; Nukahiva and Makatea (Seaie); East Indies. 

 Blennius edentulus Bloch & Schneider, Syst. lchth,, 172, 1801, Huahine. 

 Si larias forsteri Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., XI, 315, 1836; described from Forster's specimen from 



Huahine. 

 Blennius truneatus Forster, Descr. Anim., 231, 1844, Huahine. 

 Salarias edentulus, Giinther, Cat., Ill, 252, 1861, Polynesia, eastern parts East Indies. Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, 



206, . taf. 117 : fig. a, Samoa, Paumotu, Bonham, Rarotonga. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, dark olive, the body and fins much spotted with bright red- 

 dish brown; belly livid bluish; caudal pale, slight yellowish below; anal pale-edged. 



A specimen from Pago Pago had several dark, irregular, paired cross-bands on body, with dark 

 brown dots along base of anal and on caudal peduncle; dorsal divided, with oblique rows of black dots 

 besides numerous whitish ones; anal with 2 rows of dots and a whitish edge; pectoral and ventral 

 plain olive; no crest; tentacles small. 



Another Apia specimen was dark bluish-olive, with dark-brown markings; head and anal blue- 

 black; caudal mostly black; caudal peduncle with several rows of browm dots; spinous dorsal with 

 2 longitudinal rows of dark dots; soft dorsal with several oblique rows of dots; caudal and pectoral 

 plain dusky; anal dusky, pale-edged. 



We have 60 specimens from Apia and Pago Pago, where it swarms in the crevices of the coral 

 reefs. 



1612. Salarias meleagris Cuvier & Valenciennes. New Caledonia; New Hanover; Nukahiva and 



Makatea (Seale). 

 Salarias melcanris Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., xi, 232, 1836, Tasmania. Giinther, Fische der Sudsee, 

 208, taf. 116, fig. G, New Caledonia, Cape York, Zanzibar. Peters, Berl. Mon. 1876, 841, New Hanover. 



This species, unknown to us, is recorded from Melanesia and Polynesia, but these specimens may 

 be distinct from the original type, which came from Tasmania. 



1613. Salarias g-armani Jordan & Seale, new species. Samoa. 



Head 4.18 in length; depth 5; eye 3 in head; interorbital equal to one-half of eye; dorsal XIII, 21; 

 anal 24; a short, indistinct lateral line ending under the ninth dorsal spine; a short, simple tentacle 

 over eye, another over nostril. 



Body elongate, compressed, the anterior profile of head vertical; caudal peduncle about equal to 

 eye; angle of jaws under posterior third of eye; teeth in jaws in single series, no posterior canines; 

 dorsal fin incised two-thirds of its height, the incision being posterior to origin of anal; origin of dor- 

 sal directly over posterior margin of opercle, its distal end at base of caudal, the membrane not 

 attached to caudal fin, the height of longest dorsal spine 2.1 in nead, and of the longest ray 1.75 in 

 head; anal fin long, its base 2.2 in length of fish without the caudal, its origin being under base of 

 tenth dor.-al spine and nearer tip of snout than base of caudal by a distance about equal to depth of 

 caudal peduncle; longest ray of anal 1.75 in head; pectoral slightly longer than head; ventral 1.95 in 

 head; caudal rounded, 1.2 in head. 



