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44. GYMNOTHORAX MIEROSZEWSKII ( Steindachner) . 



Mura'na iitieroszen'skii Steindachner, Rei.se Sr. IMaj. Schiff Aurora, 1898, ]^. 222, 

 Kobe. 



Head 2| in trunk; head and trunk as long as tail; .snout If in head; 

 cleft of mouth 2^; greatest depth of body li in head; eye 2i in 

 snout; mouth not closing; the cleft long, the teeth pointed, with the 

 points turned backward, all one-rowed, about 13 on each side in each 

 jaw; no teeth on vomer; anterior nasal tube half eye; posterior nostril 

 without tube; gill opening as large as eye. 



Body with the skin wrinkled, color light and dark Ijrownish violet, 

 covered with innumerable crossing lines of violet Ijrovvn and close- 

 set, ditfuse. roundish spots of brownish white, occasionally ring-like; 

 black furrows between angle of mouth and gill opening; region of gill 

 opening, angle of mouth, and lower margin of eye diffusely blackish; 

 front of head above and below dark grayish-violet; tail darker than 

 rest of body; spots on tail smaller, closer-set and better defined, the 

 reticulate lines less distinct. (Steindachner.) 



Described from a specimen So cm. long, obtained at Kobe l)y 

 Dr. C. Ritter von Mieroszewski, surgeon of the Austrian frigate 

 Aurora^ for whom the species was named. 



45. GYMNOTHORAX REEVESI (Richardson). 



Muricna reevesi Richardson, Voyage Sulphur, 1848, p. 109, pi. xlix, fig. 2, on a 

 Chinese drawing made for John Reeves, of Canton. — Gunther, Cat. Fish., 

 VIII, 1870, p. 107, "Japan." 



Head 2^ in trunk; tail longer than rest of body; cleft of mouth 

 wide, 2^ to 2i in head; snout compressed, rather short; eye moderate, 

 more than half snout, nearer tip of snout than angle of mouth. Ante- 

 rior nasal tubes short; gill opening not wider than eye; mouth closing 

 completely; canines moderate, few in numl^er; teeth uniserial. with- 

 out basal lobes, a))out 17 on each side of mandilile. 



Color dark brown, with several series of indistinct black round 

 spots, longitudinally arranged and al)out as large as eye; head with 

 spots similar in size and form to those of body; tins without pale 

 margin. (Gunther.) 



Coasts of China, not seen by us, recorded by Gunther from Japan, 

 (collection Jamrach), proba])Iy from the Kiukiu Islands. (Named for 

 John Reeves, of Canton.) 



46. GYMNOTHORAX RETICULARIS Bloch. 



Gi/mnothora.v reticularis Bloch, Ausliindisclie Fisehe, IX, 1795, p. 85, pi. ccccxvi, 

 Indian Ocean. — Schneider, Syst. Ichth., ISOl, p. 528 (copied). 



Murx7iophis reticularis Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, p. 628 (co])ied). 



Murieua reticularis GtJNTHER, Cat. Fish., VIII, 1870, p. 105, China Sea, Japan. — 

 Ishikawa, Prel. Cat., 1897, p. 5, Tokio. 



