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Four specimens were secured, three obtained in brackish water at the mouth 

 of a small stream which empties into Panama Bay, the fourth in a fresh-water pond at 

 Miraflores. There is some reason to suppose that they burrow in the mud. 



62. Ophichthus triserialis (Kdup). 



No Panama record is known to the writers. The species is abundant on 

 the Mexican coast, and has been recoi'ded from the Galapagos Islands (Gilbert, 

 1890 ^», p. 450). 



63. Ophichthus zophochir Jordan <t Gilbert. 



This species has been heretofore known only from the Mexican coast (Guay- 

 raas, Mazatlan, Acapulco). A single specimen was taken in a rock-pool at Panama. 

 As in the type, the teeth are acute, biserial on all the bones. The color is as described, 

 except that the dorsal is not definitely black-edged. The anal is conspicuously 

 edged with black, the pectoral largely blackish. Pores on head black-edged. 



Table of Measureme^its in Millimeters. 



Family MUR^FNID.F:. 



64. Rabula panamensis (Steindachner). 



Recorded from Panama by Steindachner, and by Boulenger (1899, p. 2), as 

 Miircena panamensis; not seen by the writers. 



65. Lycodontis verrilli {Jordan l- Gilbert) . 



Only the type specimen known; collected by Prof. F. H. Bradley at Panama 

 in 1866; now in the museum of Comparative Zoology. 



66. Lycodontis dovii {Giinther). 



A single specimen 753 mm. long was taken in a tide-pool on the reef at 

 Panama. 



The color is dark chestnut-brown, uniform on head, body and fins, except 

 that the belly and under side of head are ligliter. The spots are numerous, round, 

 varying in size, but all of them small, the largest smaller than pupil; they were all 

 very light yellow in life, and are not definitely ocellated, the ground-color being 

 slightly darker around them. The larger spots are on the dorsal portions, with occa- 



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