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rings somewhat over half as wide as interspaces; head and inter- 

 spaces spotted with same color as the rings; throat with a large, 

 brown blotch; rings narrowly bordered with dead white, the borders 

 gradually growing broader and becoming pearly toward the tail: 

 areas between white borders with a pink ground color, which has an 

 indistinct, light orange border, (he latter growing deeper in tint and 

 spreading inward on the posterior parts; under surface white, tinged 

 with orange on the throat, bluish on the belly; tip of snout bright 

 pink; dorsal finely spotted between the bands; anal immaculate, 

 except posteriorly where the body rings encroach on the fin. In 

 spirits the body is gray, the spots and rings brown. 



A remarkably beautiful eel from the market at Naha. The type, 

 Cat. Xo. 62232, U.S.N.M., is a specimen 030 mm. long. Another, 

 slightly smaller though otherwise similar, was obtained at the same 

 time. It is in the Stanford University collection. Cotype, Cat. Xo. 

 21101. 



Family LABRIM). 



LEPIDAPLOIS LOXOZONUS, new species. 



Three specimens of a Lepidaplois obtained in the Xaha market are 

 like that figured by Giinther as L. macrurus. They differ markedly 

 from the L. macrurus of Lacepede,'' and likewise from Crenildbrus 

 chdbrolii of Lesson, which no doubt is synonymous with the species 

 of Lacepede. They have the ventrals black, and instead of a broad 

 black band extending across the body from near the middle of the soft 

 dorsal to the posterior third of the anal and covering half the caudal 

 peduncle, as in C. macrurus, they have a conspicuous mark like a 

 reversed comma, the large basal part of which covers the proximal 

 half of the soft dorsal and reaches downward to the lateral line, while 

 the tail extends downward and backward across the caudal peduncle 

 to base of caudal fin and then outward along the edge of the inferior 

 lobe to its tip, passing entirely free of the anal fin. A specimen simi- 

 lar in all points to the Xaha examples is recorded from Manila by 

 Jordan and Sealed 



The form represented by the Xaha specimens and figured by Giin- 

 ther is here described as a new species, Lepidaplois loxozonus. 



Head 3 in length to base of caudal; depth 2.8; depth caudal 

 peduncle 0.0; snout 2.7 in head; eye 5; interorbital width 3.8; 

 D. XII. 10; A. Ill, 12: scales in lateral line 33; between lateral line 

 and origin of dorsal 5; between lateral line and origin of anal 11. 



a Sudsee, pi. cxxixa. 



6 Hist, d.'s Poiss., III. ]>. 438, pi. ix. fig. 3. 

 c Voy. Coq. Zool., Poiss., p. 133, pi. xxxviii. 

 *Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., XXVI, p. 29, 



