24S EXPEDITION OF TIIK " AL15ATROSS," 1899-1900. 



Gymnothorax stellatus (Lacepede). 



Muraenophis dellatus Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., 1803, 5, p. 622, 629, 644. 



Muraena Jimbriala Bennett, Proc. Conim. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1831, p. 168. Day, Fi.slics uf India, 

 1878, p. 670, pi. 172, fig. 1. 



No. 05775, a specimen 7| inches long, and U5782, M. C. Z. 29580, 3i inches 

 long, from Fakarava, Paumotu Islands. 



Echidna tritor \'aillant & Sauvage. 



Ri'v. ct M:ig. Zuol., 1S7."), 3, p. 287. 



KdiUlna Iviludn .Jenkins, Bull. V. S. Fish Coiimi., HtO:-;, 22, p. 42S, fijr. !). .Jordan & Seai.e, Bull. 

 U. S. Bur. Fish., 1906, 25, p. 203. 



No. 05773, a specimen 9j inches long and 05774, M. C. Z. 29579, 5^ inches 

 long, from Fakarava, Paumotu Islands. In the position of the vent, which is 

 nearer the tip of snout than the tip of tail, these specimens agree with E. psalion. 



Enchelynassa canina (Qruv & Gaimard). 



.I(iKD\N A: Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fi.sh., 1906, 26, j). 197. 



Miiiaciin canina CJuov & Gaimard, Voy. Uranio. ZdoI., 1824, p. 247. 



No. A51, I85 inches long from Fakarava, Pamnotu Islands. 



Uropterygius pantherinus (Lesson). 



Iiiil/ii/oplii.'i jHiiilhcn'niiJi Lesson, Voy. Coquille. Zool. Poiss., 1830, 2, p. 131, .\tlus, pi. 13. 

 di/niNiiniiiriii'nd luiitllicrina Bleeker, .\tlas Ifhth., 18()4, 4, p. 112, 113, tab. 17.5, Mur. 31, fig. 3. 



Number A49, a specimen 23? inches long from Fakarava, Paumotus. 



Sharp curved teeth in both jaws in several irregular rows that are hard to 

 count ; at least four rows anteriorly, bunched in front of vomer and at the 

 junction of upper jaw; vomer with two rows of teeth anteriorly, single row 

 posteriorly, those in front curved backward, the posterior three curved forward. 

 No vestige of fin except at extremity of tail. 



This specimen is very certainly identifiable with (hjmnothontx pdnllivriiKi 

 in Bleeker's Atlas. Bleeker states that his specimens are quite certainly the 

 same as Lesson's Ichihijophis jxinlhcrinus, and suggests the possibility of its 

 being the Gyiniunnuruciui tiiartiKirdld Lacepede. It is, however, quite as certain 



