Fins dull brownish, Dorsals with oblique narrow lines, and on 
soft dorsal crowded as fine oblique lines marginally. Spinous 
dorsal and anal darker terminally. Length 95 mm, One from Fiji. 
Salarias eaudolineatus Glinther. 
Head 4 2/5; depth 5 2/5; D. XII, 21; A. 23; eye 3 1/6 in head; 
maxillary 2 1/8; interorbital 2 in ehe length; head width 1 2/3 its 
length. Snout length about half width of mouth, and forehead pro- 
truding in front profile, Eye elevated, with long slenderly accumi- 
nate tentacle about 2/3 of eye. Mouth wide, Lips entire, Teeth 
very fine, slender, even, close-set incisors; no canines. Nasal 
flap not evident. Interorbital narrowly concave. Rakers few rudimen- 
tary weak short points; dilaments 11/2 in eye, Lateral line incom- 
plete, arch in front not quite extending far as depressed pectoral. 
tip. Celer in wicehel dulleolive brown, Trunk with indistinct 
traces of one or two uneven and somewhat disjointed brown lines 
above anal, Under surface of head and abdomen paler. Kow of pale 
spots all along lower edge of trunk close to anal base and another, 
at least partly so, along front base of anal, Fins all pale brown, 
dorsals with 4 lines or bands longitudinally of dark brown, where 
not all even and some oblique. Caiidal with 5 dark transverse lines, 
Anal with slightly darker brown terminal edge than general color of fin! 
Length 65 mm, ee 
afnther describes this species on two examples, 51 mm, leneas 
COL 
from Tahiti. His figure differs from our example in that it 
shows but 2 rows of dark spots on the dorsals and the caudal with 
7 rows, Our exmmple has the caudal basally quite dark, so that the 
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Journ,/dus ,Godeffroy,Part 6,1877,p,209,P1.116,Fig.F 
