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1145. (24.) Salarias marmoratus. 



Blennius mai'moratug, Bennett, Zool. Jo'ir. iv, p. 35. 

 Salarias marmoratus, Day, Fish. India, p. 335 ; Sitppl. p. 798 (se3 

 synon.). 



D. 12 | 15. P. 14. V. 3. A. 18. C. 11. 



Length of head 4|, of caudal fin 7, height of body 5 in tho 

 total length. Eyes high up, rather above 1 diameter from end of 

 snout ; anterior profile very oblique. No crest. A fringed supra- 

 orbital tentacle as long as eye, another short one at nostril, having 

 some filaments at its base ; one, also fringed, at nape. Teeth a 

 strong posterior canine in lower ja\v. Fins dorsal fin deeply 

 notched, first lower than second, which is nearly | height of body, 

 but does not extend to caudal, the interspace (from base of last ray) 

 equal to T l ,j length of dorsal. Colour brownish yellow, with 

 cloudy blackish-brown spots in two series, on the brown are yellow 

 spots. Fins, except ventral, spotted with yellow or brown. 



Hab. Ceylon and Sandwich Islands ; attaining 4 inches in length 



1146. (25.) Salarias bicolor. 



Salarias bicolor, TicMl, MSS. ; Day, Fish. India, Sujyl. 1888, p. 798 

 D. 11 | 17. V. 2. A. 18. 



Length of head 5, of caudal fin 5, height of body 6 (Tickell's 

 figure). Snout not overhanging mouth ; no crest. Fins first 

 dorsal as high as body, separated by a deep notch from second 

 dorsal, which is not confluent with caudal. Colour anterior half 

 of body as far as origin of second dorsal dark blue (smalt), posterior 

 half carmine orange. Dorsal fins sepia tinged with smalt, base of 

 second dorsal orange ; caudal and anal orange, tipped and margined 

 with sepia; ventrals whitish. 



Hab. A specimen 1| inches in length was obtained by Colonel 

 Tickell from Saddle Island, off Kyoukhypoo, Arracan. 



3. Genus ANDAMIA, Blyth. 



Differs from Salarias in possessing an adhesive sucker behind and 

 below the symphysis of the mandibles. Caudal rays un branched. 



Blyth observes that this genus has broad- expanded pectorals, 

 as in the cyprinoid Homaloptera. 



1 147. (1.) Andamia heteroptera. (Fig. 104.) 

 Salarias heteropterus, Sleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Ind. Ned. ii, Amboina, 



p. 65. 

 Audamia expansa, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxvii, 1858, p. 271 ; Day, Fish. 



India, p. 336, pi. Ixxi, fig. 2 (see synon.). 



D. 16 I 18. P. 14-15. V. 3. A. 25-26. C. 14. 



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