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body, second rather higher and continued on to caudal. Pectoral 

 as long as head excluding snout. Colour leaden, in some specimens 

 six to eight vertical bands on body as wide as ground-colour, eight 

 to ten narrow horizontal black lines along body, decreasing in 

 number to four or five and becoming more distinct towards the tail, 

 sometimes they break up into spots ; some specimens have narrow 

 black vertical and sinuous lines on the cheek and below the eyes. 

 Dorsal fins with numerous fine oblique black lines, passing upwards 

 and backwards. Anal with a lightish base and a dark outer edge, 

 in some specimens a narrow dark band along the middle. Caudal 

 dark greyish. 



Hab. Ked Sea, seas of India to the Malay Archipelago. 



1133. (12.) Salarias hasseltii. 



Salarias hasseltii, IHeeker, Batavia Nat. Tijclsch. i, p. 257, and viii, 

 p. 174 ; Day, Fish. India, p. 332 (see synon.). 



D. 12 | 23. P. 14. V. 3. A. 24-25. C. 14. 



Length of head 5|, of caudal fin 6|, height of body 7| in the total 

 length. Eyes of moderate size ; profile to mouth vertical, but not 

 prominent. A line of open glands along the hind and lower edge 

 of the preopercle. A crest on head (? only in males) ; a short 

 fringed supraorbital tentacle, another at nostril, none at nape. 

 Teeth no canines. Fins dorsal deeply notched, and continuous 

 with caudal ; the two dorsal fins are of nearly the same height and 

 about equal to that of body. Colout stone-colour, with about 

 six rather darker vertical cross bands and several light longitudinal 

 stripes. Dorsal brownish, with oblique stripes in its lower half, 

 its upper portion has four or five narrow bands parallel with its outer 

 edge, and of a blue- brown and yellow colour. Anal with a dark 

 outer edge. 



Hab. I obtained one specimen, 3 inches long, at the Andamans. 

 The range extends to the Malay Archipelago and Fiji Islands. 



1134. (13.) Salarias andamanensis. 

 Salarias andamanensis, Day, P. Z. S. 1869, p. Gil ; Fish. India, p. 332. 



D. 12. | 22. P. 15. V. 4. A. 22-24. C. 11. 

 Length of head 6, of caudal fin 5|, height of body 5, of dorsal 

 spines 8|, of dorsal rays 8g, of anal 11 in the total length. Eyes 

 diameter 3 in length of head. Profile from eyes to snout veri ical ; 

 a rather high crest on head. Supraorbital tentacle two thirds as 

 long as eye. Teeth a pair of large posterior canines in lower 

 jaw. Fins a rather deep notch between divisions of dorsal fin. 

 Posterior extremity of dorsal does not extend to caudal. Caudal 

 with central rays longest. Colour brownish, with ten brown bars 

 along middle of body ; a row of pearly-coloured oblong spots with 

 dark margins above middle of body in its posterior half, and a 

 similar row along its lower half. Dorsal fin with a dark margin 

 edged with white, and posterior portion of second dorsal spotted. 



