SALAKIAS. 



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Tropical and Subtropical Seas, a few species in fresh waters. The 

 latter have one representative in Madagascar and the Mascarene 

 Islands. 



1. SALARIAS MONOCHROUS. 



Alticus monochrous, Bleek. Versl. Ak. Amsterd. (2) iii. 1869, p. 234, and Poiss. 



Madag. p. 60, pi. xvi. fig. 2 (1874); Sauv. Hist. Madag., Poiss. p. 391, 



pi. xxxix. figs. 1 &2 (1891). 

 Alticus aspilus, Bleek. 11. cc. p. 235, and p. 61, pi. xvi. fig. 1. 



Body compressed, its depth 8 to 8J times in total length ; head 5^ to 

 6 times in total length. A dermal crest on the head in the adult male ; 

 eve 4 to 5 times in length of head ; a bifid tentacle above the eye ; 

 canine teeth present in male. Dorsal XIV 22, originating on occiput, 

 simple rays more or less produced into filaments, the anterior at least 



Fix. 67. 



Salarias monochrous. 

 $ , after Bleeker (Poiss. Madag.). 



as long as head. Anal 24-26. Pectoral much longer than head. 

 Ventral with 4 rays. Caudal rounded. Caudal peduncle deeper than 

 long. Dark purplish brown, uniform or with black cross-bars. 



Total length 110 millim. 



Sambirano E., Madagascar ; Reunion. — Type in Leyden Museum. 



The occurrence of the Mediterranean Blenniid Cristiceps argentatus, 

 Bissoj in one of the " rigoles d'ecoulement " of the Fontaine Malakoff, 

 an artesian well between Algiers and Laghouat, reported by Playfair 

 and Letourneux, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) viii. 1871, p. 386, on the 

 authority of a M. Fanton, of Algiers, cannot be admitted until confirmed. 

 The specimen described by the above authors is not preserved in the 

 Museum. 



