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thai our siicciiiiens, as well as Bleeker's, are not UyDinoiliorax iimrnKirtda, if 

 those recorded from the Hawaiian Islands by Jordan & Evermann, and those 

 from Samoa by Jordan & Seale, are correctly identified.- 



While Lesson's Ichthyophis pantherinus has been included in the synonymy 

 of Uropterygiun marmorata,^ it has not the same character of vertical fins on the 

 tail, in fact it has practically none, while U. marmorata from Hawaii has the 

 vertical fins extending a short distance on the tail both above and below. There 

 is nothing in Lesson's description to show the number of the rows of teeth or 

 whether the posterior nostril was tubular or not. In fact no posterior nostril 

 is shown in the figure, but the color, shape, and character of the tail, are much 

 like those of our specimens, which have the posterior nostril tubular. We there- 

 fore retain Lesson's specific name and ]:)lace it in L^ropterygius."" 



' Uroplerygias marmorata in Fishes of Hawaiian Islands, Jordan & Evermann, is incorrectly illus- 

 trated by a figure of Callcchelys marmnrala cojjied from tab. 1.53, Mi:r. 11, fig. 2 of Bleeker's .\llas. 

 Probably Gijmnomnraena macroplerus, p. 113, 115, and G. xanllinplerus, p. 112, 114 and tab. 164, Mur. 

 20, tigs. 2 and 4 of Bleeker's Atlas and possibly 0. macrocephalus, p. 112, and 114, tab. 160, Mur. 21, 

 tig. 2, are correctly included in the .synonymy of ['. marmnrata. 



-In Fishes of Hawaiian Lsland.s Jordan & Evermann place the genus lclilli\i>phis I.e.s.son in the 

 synonymy of Uropterygius as follows: "Ichthyophis Lesson, Voy. de la Coquille, 1S2!), 2, p. lol, (pan- 

 Ihcn'iiHs = marmoralm); not of Fitzinger 1829 (1S2()) a genus of reptiles." 



.\ls() in their synonymy of Uropterygius iiurrmoratus occurs: — Icldlnjophiti pdiillicriniis L<>s.son, 

 Voy. Coquille. Zool. PoLss., 1829, 2, p. 131. 



In the Proceedings of the 11. S. Nat. Mus. 19(11, 23, p. SS6, Jordan & Snyder estal)lish (lie genus 

 Scuticaria, retaining as type of the genus Ichlhiinpliis li(/riiiui> Le.sson, having the posterior as well as 

 the anterior nostril tubular. 



In Fislies of Hawaiian Islands, (Bull. U. S. Fish Conim. 190.'), 23, pt . 1, p. 1 12) Jordan & Evermann in 

 the synonymy of Scuticaria have: — " M uracnntiknna Kaup, Cat. Apod. Fish., 97, 18.56 (tlqrina); not of 

 Laccpede, 1803, which is a Myxine." In the same work (p. 113) in the .synonymy of Sciiticura tigrinn, 

 they include " Ichlhyophin ligrinus Lesson, Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris, IV, 399, 1S29." Riippell sliows, 

 in the figure of Uropterygius concolor, a short tube at posterior nostril, and says in the description of this 

 species: — "Nasenlocher wie gewohnlieh bei den Muraencn niit Kurzcn Hautfiihlern versehen." This 

 does not necessarily exclude posterior nostrils. 



Jordan & Evermann in the description of ('. marniorata, state that the anterior nostrils afe in short 

 tubes and the posterior have elevated rims. A specimen of theirs, from the Hawaiian Islands, shows 

 the posterior tube as long as the anterior. Specimens in the V. S. Nat. Mus. from the same locality 

 and labeled Uropterygius marmorata, that are .5 to 6 inches long, show, in the smaller examples, no rim, 

 and in the larger, a very slight rim at posterior nostril. 



These resemble specimens of the same size from Samoa, labeled Uropterygius concolor, all of which 

 are exactly like specimens in our collection which we have identified as young U. marmorata. Larger 

 si)ecimens from Samoa labeled "Scuticaria marmorata," show imsterior nostril tubes as they are in a 

 sjiecimen of Scuticaria tigrinus of the same size from Hawaii. 



It Ihus seems that the presence or absence of posterior nasal tubes affortls no basis for separating 

 Uie genera on this character, and the genus Scuticaria will have to be dropped in favor of Uropterygius. 



The type of Irhllii/ophis is tigrinus and not piintlicriniis (Lesson, Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris, 1S2S, 

 4, p. 400). 



