ADDENDA 52. MUR^ENID^E MUR^NA. 895 



in two series, the outer series of a few short, fixed teeth ; the inner 

 series of about 10 long, compressed teeth, a few of which are depressi- 

 ble, all more or less directed backward; those ot the middle of the jaw 

 somewhat larger than those in front. Vomer with 1 or 2 depressible 

 canines. Teeth of lower jaw similar to those of upper; the large teeth 

 rather shorter and broader; teeth all entire; mouth not closing com- 

 pletely. The tubes of anterior and posterior nostrils about equal, 

 slightly shorter than eye. Cleft of the mouth 2f times in length of 

 head; eye over middle of cleft, If in snout. Snout in head. Head 

 2f in trunk. Tail very little longer than rest of body. Dorsal mod- 

 erate, beginning over the middle of head. Gill-opening small, about 

 as broad as eye. Color light brown, regularly reticulated with black- 

 is! 1 , the reticulations inclosing hexagonal or roundish spots of the 

 ground color, irregular in size, longer than the eye. Entire fish fur- 

 ther covered thickly with small whitish spots, smaller than the pupil: 

 These spots smallest and most numerous anteriorly, nearly obsolete on 

 the belly, and present on the inside of the mouth. Gill-opening sur- 

 rounded by a small blackish^blotch not twice as broad as eye. Angle 

 of the mouth black ; dorsal with about 5 longitudinal blackish lines, 

 which are obsolete posteriorly. Anal with a blackish longitudinal 

 stripe. Charleston, South Carolina. 

 (Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1882.) 



Page 357. After Murccna oceUata add : 

 5 SO (/'). M. afra (Bloch) Gthr. 



Greenish black; fins with dark lines and without pale edge. Teeth 

 uniserial in old examples, the vomerine teeth being sometimes biserial; 

 mandible with about 20 teeth on each side, the four anterior much lon- 

 ger than the others, and, like the canines, rather elongate. Anterior 

 nasal tubes half as long as eye. Gill-opening nearly as wide as eye. 

 Snout narrow, produced, pointed; eye moderate, half length of snout, 

 somewhat nearer angle of mouth than end of snout. Cleft of the 

 mouth wide, two-fifths length of head. Tail longer than body. Head 

 2 in trunk. Dorsal not elevated. (GiintJier.) Tropical parts of the 

 Atlantic ; north to Florida. 



(? Gymnotliorax afer Bloch, Ausl. Fische. ix, 85: Munnm afra Giinther, viii, 123, 

 in part.) 



>8O (c). M. moring-a Ctiv. Moray. 

 Everywhere with innumerable, confluent, irregular, brownish black 



