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Color in alcohol deep chocolate-brown, mostly with this ground- 

 color entirely uniform, and belly and head below scarcely paler. On 

 back and most of trunk posteriorly, inconspicuous pale or" minute 

 grayish dots like pin-points, rather sparsely distributed. These 

 not extending on belly or head, though on dorsal fin becoming more 

 numerous than on body. Dorsal also with numerous oblique narrow 

 lines of darker shade than body color, sloping up from back towards 

 edge. Anal with several more or less complete darker longitudinal 

 lines than ground-color of fin. Iris brownish. Mouth brownish 

 inside. Rictus not darker than ground-color of bod}'. Gill-openings 

 similar. Teeth pale. 



Length 27| inches. 



Type No. 16,705, A. N. S. P. No data. (This specimen was 

 in a jar received from E. D. Cope labelled "Texas" and may have 

 been secured somewhere in the West Indies.) 



In many respects this species resembles the larger examples of 

 G. funebris in the collection, but it has no vomerine teeth, and the 

 lips are densely papillose. Its dorsal is also more posteriorly inserted 

 and the coloration is entirely different. 



(Iriytj-a, spot; euroy, back; with reference to the dorsal spots.) 



Subgenus PRIODOXOPHIS Kaup. 

 Gymnothorax ocellatus Agassiz. 



One from Santo Domingo, West Indies. This seems to agree 

 better with Agassiz's figure, than the other examples listed below, 

 which I formerly identified with it. Agassiz shows the white spots 

 of uneven size, some of which about equal to pupil and others smaller, 

 and dorsal and anal with many various white spots, of which some 

 small and others much larger than eye, black interspaces often 

 equally large. 



Gymnothorax ocellatus saxicola Jordan and Davis. 



One from New Jersey and another from Pensacola, Florida. 



Eurymyctera acutirostris (Abbott). 



Murcena acutirostris Abbott, Proc. Acad. Xat. Sci. Phila., 1860, p. 476. 

 Hawaii. 



No. 998. A. N. S. P., type of M. acutirostris Abbott. 



Echidna zebra (Shaw). 



One from Muscat Cove, Philippine Islands. 



Echidna peli (Kaup). 



Three from West Africa. 



