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Salarias geminatus Alleyne and Macleay, ee ae Boo Frle, 
Head 4 7/8 to 5; depth 5 3/4 to 5 7/8; D. XIII, 20: Or Bay 
A.2d; snout 3 to Z 3/4 in head from forehead to hind edge of 
gill-opening; eye 3 7/8 to 4 4/5; mouth width 2; interorbital 
21/5 to 21/4 in eye; head width 1 4/5 to 1 7/8 its length, 
Snout very obtuse, receding in profile, length 3/5 to 2/4 its 
width, Eye elevated; pointed supreorbitel tentacle 3/4 eye- 
diameter. Mouth wide. Lips entire, Teeth fine, even, movable, 
close-set, slender incisors; pair of small wide-set canines 
below. Interorbital narrow, slightly concave, Rakers 4} 11, 
short, weal points, greatly less than filaments, which 1 1/2 
in eye. Lateral line incomplete, pores about 30. Color in al- 
cohol olive-gray, with 9 broad transverse dull brown crossbars, 
Brown blotch behind eve, Fins pale, deep brownish terminally. 
Spinous dorsal with deep brown longitudinal band and broad deep 
brown edge. Soft dorsal with narrow whitish edge and oblique brownish 
streaks across membranes, finer and more numerous over dark submar- 
ginal region. Anal with brown streak on each membrane between 
and parallel with vere Pectoral with © er 6 brown cross-lines, 
Length 105 to 138 mm, Two from Fiji. 
Our examples agree in most respects with the d scription 
and figure by MHBHIORHHGI McCulloch end McNeil1°9°{ Quite char- 
acteristic is the pale edge of the soft dorsal. Our material does 
not show so many longitudinal dark bands on the soft doreal as these 
writers indicate and the last dorsal ray membrane does not encroach 
