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Skin smooth, tough. Four pores on each upper lip, first close 

 behind nasal tube, second midway in snout, third below front eye 

 edge and fourth below hind eye edge. Pair of pores at snout tip, 

 another pair between nasal tubes and third pair about midway in 

 snout length above. Mandible pores inconspicuous, apparently 4? 

 on each ramus. L. 1. not evident. 



Dorsal origin about midway between front eye edge and gill- 

 opening, fin high and continuous with small caudal. Length of 

 rounded caudal If in eye. Anal similar, though lower than dorsal. 

 Vent. close before anal. 



Color in alcohol deep chocolate-brown, head, body, and fins marked 

 everywhere with minute pointed dots, very numerous, of much paler 

 tint than general color and all rather distinctly defined. Towards 

 end of tail and on caudal fin dots become whitish and a little larger. 

 Inside mouth color very pale brownish. Angle of mouth brownish, 

 though not darker than general coloration. Iris pale slaty, with 

 narrow pale circle around pupil. Gill-opening edged with blackish. 

 Edges of fin similar to general color, and also with similar dots. 



Length 16| inches. 



Type No. 16,031, A. N. S. P. St. Martins, West Indies. Dr. 

 R. E. Van Rijgersma. 



Only the type, described above, is known. It differs from the 

 related Murcena melanotis, as described by Jordan and Davis from 

 South American examples, in the profusely dotted coloration, the 

 absence of both pale and dark mandibular blotches near the rictus, 

 and in having the mouth not completely closing. From Murcena 

 augusti (Kaup) it differs in the partly biserial uniform vomerine 

 teeth and the body being entirely dotted minutely with whitish. 



(Muptas } myriad; hu-/M } white; <rTixTds } spotted.) 



Eabula panamensis (Steindachner). 



A single example without data, evidently from Panama?. 



Evenchelys macrurus (Bleeker). 



One from Padang, Sumatra. 



I may here mention Murcena thyrsoidea Richardson is the type 

 of Thyrsoidea Kaup by tautonomy, and thus Bleeker's restriction 

 of T. longissima Kaup as the type is invalid. Evenchelys Jordan 

 and Evermann has priority over Rhabdura, recently proposed by 

 Ogilby. 



