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of the snout. Gill-opening as wide as the eye. Tail a little 

 longer than the body ; the length of the head is contained twice 

 and one-half or twice and two-thirds in that of the trunk. 

 Gill-opening without large black spot. Brownish, with irregular 

 dark brown blotches, more or less confluent into transverse 

 band-like spots. Anal fin with a black and white margin. 

 Angle of the mouth brown, with a more or less distinct white 

 spot in front. 



Norfolk Island. 



935. MurvEna EicnARDSONii, Bleek. 



Atl. Ichth. Mur., p. 100, pi. 42, fig. 2.— Gunth., Cat. Fishes VIII., 



p. 118. 



Skin distinctly folded, the folds crossing each other and forming 

 scale pouches. Teeth of old examples uni-serial, without basal 

 lobe ; in younger examples the anterior mandibulary and 

 maxillary teeth, and also sometimes the vomerine teeth, are 

 bi-serial. Mandible" with from ten to fourteen teeth on each side. 

 Canines rather small ; the mouth can be shut completely. The 

 length of the anterior nasal tubes is rather less than the vertical 

 diameter of the eye. Snout compressed, of moderate length. 

 Eye of moderate size. Gill. opening as wide as the eye. Tail a 

 little longer than the body. The length of the head is contained 

 twice and one-third in that of the trunk. Gill-opening without 

 black spot. Brownish, marbled with darker on the back, the 

 dark colour forms an incomplete network of wide meshes, and 

 the tail is crossed by dark cross-bands. Young specimens with- 

 out, large specimen with, a white edge to the anal fin. 



Houtman's Abrolhos, West Australia. 



936. MUR^ENA FLAVOMARGINATA, Blipp. 



Gunth., Cat. Fishes VIIL, p. 119.— Bleek., Atl. Ichth. Mur., p. 

 95, pi. 32 and 34, fig. 2-3. 



