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Also a dried skin without data, though likely from the Mediterranean? 

 (Bonaparte?). These examples show onl} r such minor discrepancies 

 as may be attributed to age, individual variation, or their preparation 

 as specimens. 



EOHELID^B. 

 Echelus myrus (Linnaeus). 



Two large examples from the Mediterranean. One contained the 

 remains of a squill. 



Myrophis vafer Jordan and Gilbert. 



Two from Panama (McNiel). 

 Chilorhinus suensonii Lutken. 



Three from Santa Cruz, West Indies. 



Muraenichthys devisi Fowler. 



Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1907, p. 421, fig. 2. Victoria, Australia. 

 No. 33,120, A. N. S. P., type. 



Muraenichthys ogilbyi Fowler. 



L. c, p. 423, fig. 3, Victoria, Australia. 

 No. 33,121, A. N. S. P., type. 



OPHICHTHYID^. 

 Dalophis coecus (Linnseus). 



One from the Mediterranean. 



Holopterura plumbea Cope. 



Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. Phila., (2) XIV, 1871, p. 482. West Africa. 

 No. 22,964, A. N. S. P., type. 



Leiuranus semicinctus (Lay and Bennett). 



Two from Hawaii. 



Chlevastes elaps sp. now Fig. 3. 



Head 17^; depth at vent 65|; D. about 557 + 25; A. about 263; 

 head width 3| its length; head depth 2f; snout 5f; mouth 3§; 

 interorbital 7£; eye 2\ in snout; gill-opening If; head 8| to vent; 

 about 8 pores in 1. 1. before gill-opening, and 160 more to end of tail, 

 of which 78 between gill-opening and vent. 



Body extremely elongate, subcylindrical or but moderately com- 

 pressed with convex sides, and long tail only appreciably tapering 

 near end. 



Head small, rather compressed, with swollen pharynx, and upper 

 profile much more evenly convex than lower. Snout convex over 

 surface and in profile tip firm, basal width It its length. Eye small 



