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Vertical fins dark, like back, Spinous dorsal with 5 horizontal 
pale lines, basal as row of spots and subbasal broadest, others 
narrower towards upper fin edge, Soft dorsal with similar pale 
inclined lines. Anal dark terminally and with 2 median pale 
longitudinal Jines, Length 69 to 118 mm, Three from Fiji and 
one from Balabac Passage, 
A drawing , representing a young example is labeled Tongatabu, 
Salarias fuscus Rippéll. Ji, . $3/- 
Head 3 1/2; depth 4 to 4 1/6; D. X dr XI, 16 to 18; A. 20 er 
21; snout 3 te 3 1/5 in head; eye 3 1/8 to 3 4/5; maxillary 3 5/6 
to 3 1/10; interorbital 2 to 2 1/5 in eye; head width 11/2 to 2 in 
its length, Snout obtuse; convex, forehead receding; length 1 2/5 
to 11/2 its width. Eye elevated; pojnted supraorbital tentacle 1 1/4 
in eye, Mouth wide. Upper lip with crenulate edge, lower entire. 
Teeth fine; moveble, even, close-set, slender incisors; no cenines 
below. Interorbital narrow, slightly concave, Rakers 3% 10?,short, 
weak points, greatly less ee filaments, which l 1/5 in eye, 
Lateral line pores 1521; upper section reaches nearly to soft 
dorsal. Color in alcohol with back dark neutral gray, paler on 
belly and abdomen Fins all neutral brownish and front of spinous 
dorsal sometimes with blackish blotch. Length 65 to 78 mm, Two 
from Fiji, 
The above agree largely with Philippine examples in the Academy, 
though the whitish on the upper half of the caudal and the last 
dorsal rays is scarcely evident, however there is a trace of the dark 
basal pectoral blotch, The species is not previously known from Fiji, 
