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dots on the heatl not extending forward beyond posterior edge of eye, or below- 

 upper jaw, though on one side there are two or three dots in front of eye. 



C'oloi' of Nos. 09043-4, in alcohol, ground color yellowish, probably gray 

 in life; dorsal, back and sides with small irregular brownish rings and broken 

 rings and irregular groups of coalescing spots; spots on lower side of abdomen 

 distinct, not coalescing; belly unspotted, top and side of head with small dis- 

 tinct spots, extending to end of snout, but none on jaws, or under lower jaw. 



No. A156, M. C. Z. 29759. This specimen is very thickly speckled with 

 small purplish brown specks, which sometimes coalesce into larger spots; lower 

 jaw and throat with numerous small spots and specks; belly plain. 



No. A52. Color similar to A156, but with fewer specks on lower jaw and 

 throat. 



No. 05771. Color similar to that of A52. 



No. 05770. Color similar to No. 05771, in addition, however, it has a few 

 small spots on belly; spots on throat and lower jaw are a little larger and more 

 scattering. 



No. A36. Very thickly spotted with larger spots than the last, amongst 

 which the ground color makes a fine reticulated effect; throat and lower jaw 

 thickly spotted with comparatively large spots. 



No. A20. Color cannot be clearly made out, seemed to be finely speckled; 

 lower jaw has scattering small spots, none on throat. 



No. 05772. Color badly faded, seemed to have had fewer spots, which were 

 more coalescing into rings and groups; throat not spotted; lower jaw with very 

 few small specks. 



Gymnothorax rupelliae (McClelland). 



Dalophis rupvlliue McClelland, CalcutUi .lourn. Nat. Hist., 184.5, 5, p. 213. 



Gymnothorax rdictilaris Bleeker, Atlas Ifhth., 1864, 4, j). 85, 98, tab. 177, Mur. 33, lif;. 1, and tab. 

 183, Mur. 39, fig. 2; tab. 181, Mur. 37, fig. 4 (not of Bloch). 



One specimen, No. 05786 (small), Rangiroa, Paumotu Islands. 



Gymnothorax tessellatus (Richardson). 



Bleekbh, .\llas k'litli., 18tJ4, 4, p. 8.'5, 93, tal). 171, Mur. 27, fig. 3. 



Muraena tessellahi^ Richardson, Zool. Voy. Sulphur. Ichth., 1845, p. 109, pi. 55, fig. 5-8. 



One specimen, No. 05785, 3| inches long from Rangiroa, Paumotu Islands. 



