N0.12O9. APODAL FISHES OF JAPAN-JORDAN AND SNYDER. 



885 



48. STROPHIDON BRUMMERI Bleeker. 



Mursena brummeri Bleeker, Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind., XVII, p. 137, Timor. 

 StropMdon or Pseudechidna hrummeri Bleeker, Atlas Ichth., Mureen., p. 109, pi. 



xviii, iig. 1, Timor, Ceram. 

 Mnrama hrunnneri GvyrnER, Cat. Fish., VIII, 1870, p. 128, Timor. 



Body and tail very slender, the head o'i in trunk, the tail one-third 

 longer than rest of body. Cleft of mouth 3i in head; teeth in single 

 rows; mouth closing completely. Dorsal rather high, inserted at end 

 of second third of length of head, more than half as high as body. 



Uniform rather light brown; the head with numerous dark dots, 

 especially on the jaws; the tins with white margin. 



East Indies, here described from a specimen 23i inches long, taken 

 In- Gapt. Alan Owston, at low tide, at Yaeyama, Ishigaki Islands, 

 Southern Kiukiu. (A personal name.) 



29. ECHIDNA Foster. 



Echidna Foster, Enchiridion, 1778, p. 31 [variegata). 



Gymnomunma LxcEPEDB, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 1803, p. 648 (doUata). 



Oymnopsis Rafinesque, Analyse de la Natur, 1815, p. 93 {dollata). 



Megndera Rafinesque, Analyse de la Natnr, 1815, p. 93 {variegata). 



3/o?«r/i RicHAEDSOX, Voy. Erebus and Terror, 1846, p. 79 {oplm = r,chuloi<a). 



Prenlophh Kaup, Apodes, 1856, p. 98 {catenalm). 

 This o-enus is distinguished from Gyninothora.e by its l:)lunt teeth. 

 The moSth is small and the body little elongate. The name Evh'uhia 

 was applied to this group of morays long Ijefore its use by Cuvier for 

 a genus of Australian Monotremes. {h^Sva, f jz?. viper.) 



49. ECHIDNA KISHINOUYEI Jordan and Snyder, new species. 



Head 3i in trunk; head and trunk \\ in tail; body rather deep, the 

 depth 19 in length; cleft of mouth 2| in head; teeth above in one 



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series in front, in two or three series behind; the posterior teeth 

 smaller and l>lunt; lower teeth mostly imiserial; mouth closing com- 

 pletely; eye small; snout short, blunt, about V in head; dorsal high, 



