314 TELEOSTEI. ACANTHOPTERYGII. 



tinned on to base of caudal, which is rather pointed. Colour 

 brown, dorsal and anal fins nearly black ; pectoral yellow, with a 

 black mark at base ; caudal brownish. 

 Hub. From the Red Sea to the Malay Archipelago. 



1126. (5.) Salarias cmentipinnis . 



Salarias cruentipinnis, Tickell, MSS, ; Day, Fish. India, Suppl. 1888, 

 p. 797. 



B. vi. D. 13/13. V. 2. A. 17. 



Length of head 5, height of body 4 in the total length. Eyes 

 high up. Body compressed ; profile from eyes to mouth almost 

 vertical ; maxilla reaches to beneath hind edge of eye. No crest ; 

 a bifurcated supraorbital tentacle and a fringed nasal one. Fins 

 dorsal not notched, continued on to caudal fin, spinous portion three 

 fourths height of body and rather longer than soft portion. Anal 

 lower than dorsal, posterior rays longest. Colour rich vinous 

 olive-sepia ; a large patch of pale yellowish brown from angle of 

 lips to lower edge of subopercle. Caudal fin of same colour as 

 body, with the three outer rays above and below tawny. Dorsal 

 fin dusky, its basal half blackish, external half of anterior 17 rays 

 carmine, of posterior 9 rays black. Anal fin dusky with a carmine 

 band along middle, and externally with a carmine and black edging. 

 Pectoral paler than body, lower rays tinged carmine. 



Hob. Saddle Island, off Kyoukhpyoo in Arracan. The specimen 

 was 2-8 inches in 'length. 



1127. (6.) Salarias brevis. 



Salarias brevis, Kner, Sitzb. Wien. Akad. Iviii, 1808, p. 334.t. vi, fig. 18. 

 Salarias leopardus, Day, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 518. 



Blennius leopardus, Day, Fish. India, p. 325, pi. Ixviii, fig. 6 ; Suppl. 

 p. 796. 



D. 12 | 12. P. 15. V. 4. A. (2 + ) 13. C. 11. 



Length of head 3J, height of body not quite 3 in the total length. 

 Eyes diameter 3| in length of head, 1| diam. from end of snout, 

 and 1 apart. Snout obtuse, not overhanging mouth. No crest. 

 A transverse row of tentacles across occiput ; a fringed supraorbital 

 tentacle half length of eye ; lips fringed, with two bifid tentacles 

 on either side of symphysis of lower jaw. Fins a deep notch 

 between the two portions of dorsal fin ; second dorsal not continued 

 quite to caudal, which is cut square. Pectoral with outer half of 

 its eight lower rays free ; two fleshy prominences anterior to anal 

 fin . Colour rich brown, becoming whitish on the chest, and spotted 

 all over with black, leaving narrow interspaces of ground-colour ; 

 fins unspotted. 



Uab. Galle, Ceylon (Dr. J. Anderson), also the Sandwich Islands. 



1128. (7.) Salarias steindachneri. 



Blennms stemdachneri, Day, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 110 ; and Fish. India, 

 p. 326, pi. Ixx, fig. 1, Suppl. p. 790. 



