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pair of erect upper teeth at snout tip pair of depressible smaller 

 conic teeth, one each side of median tooth and directed back. Close 

 behind large front erect outer canine each side above 2 inner enlarged 

 depressible conic teeth. Premaxillary teeth large canines, conic, 

 depressible, first close behind median front erect upper tooth, second 

 subequal and median about midway in snout length, last longest 

 and median close before eye. Vomer with one row of low backward ly 

 inclined compressed sharp-pointed teeth, smaller than lateral man- 

 dibulars or like smallest along upper jaw edges. Upper teeth begin 

 about opposite eye center, close inside upper laterals inner row of 

 4 enlarged depressible conic teeth, last well behind eye. Lower 

 teeth largely uniserial, compressed, sharp-pointed, inclined little 

 back, all small except anterior. Pair of erect sharp conic symphyseal 

 canines. In front of mandible each side anteriorly row of 3 enlarged 

 depressible conic canines, first largest in jaw and second shorter than 

 symphyseal pair, third about equal. Mandible elongate, slender, 

 attenuate, protrudes little beyond upper, well curved, surface con- 

 vex, rami low. Front nostril in short tube near snout tip, hind one 

 long slit about f of eye. Interorbital convex. Gill-opening nearly 

 horizontal, about midway in depth, about f of eye. Pharynx swollen, 

 grooved below. Pores on head inconspicuous. Dorsal origin about 

 opposite hind edge of gill-opening, like anal moderately high. Caudal 

 2^ in eye. Vent close before anal. Color in alcohol largely uni- 

 form chocolate-brown. At rictus color little darker, or dusky. Edge 

 of gill-opening not noticeably darker. Iris slaty. Fins narrowly 

 edged slightly darker than body-color. Length 610 mm. No. 

 16,032, A. N. S. P., type of G. nigrocastaneus Cope. 



9. Muraena miliaris (Kaup). 



{Muroena myrialeucostictus Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1912, p. 

 18, fig. 4.) 



Thyrsoidea miliaris Kaup^ is likely this species. He had a larger 



example, without locality, with "arabesque" figures towards end of 



tail, arising from the dots running into each other, which was 23.98 



in. long. The other, from Martinique, appears to agree, though 



lack of details do not render this certain. Muraena multiocellata 



Poey^ agrees largely in proportions, but it is said to have the lower 



teeth morey serrated and numerous than the upper. Gunther appears 



to have correctly placed Kaup's T. miliaris in Muraena,^ though 



wrongly includes Murenophis punctata Castelnau,^ as the latter is 



*Csit. Apodal F. Brit. Mus., 1856, p. 90. 



8 Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, II, 1860, p. 324. Cuba. 



