Jordan and Ever ma nn. — Fishes of North America. 401 



black spot around j^ill opening; dorsal mottled with grayish; posterior 

 part of body with a few scattered round grayish spots about as large as 

 pupil ; these irregular in size and position and rather faint, most numerous 

 around vent and on anal fin ; sides of tail nearly or quite plain ; angle of 

 mouth dark. Length 20 inches. Galapagos Islands ; one specimen known ; 

 resembling the European Murana lielena, but less mottled and more dis- 

 tinctly spotted, {insularum, of the islands.) 



Murana iitsulurum, Jordan & Davis, Apodal Fishes, GOO, 1892, Chatham Island. (Tj-pe, No. 

 38300. Coll. Dr. W. H. Jones.) 



6«0. MURJINA ARGUS (Steindacliner). 



Jaws capable of being completely closed. Teeth all uniserial ; those 

 of upper jaw strong, sharp-pointed, recurved; vomerine teeth much 

 smaller, preceded by two long canines ; head 6i in total length; eye 2^ 

 in snout ; snout 51 in head. Body with three rows of diffuse yellow 

 blotches, including fine spots. Color clear brown with a reddish tinge; 

 very small yellow spots covering head, body and fins, mixed here and 

 there with larger spots ; large yellowish blotches arranged in three rows 

 along the body; the lower row fainter than upper. (Steiudachner.) 

 Altata, west coast of Mexico; not seen by us. {Argus, the hundred-eyed, 

 from the innumerable spots.) 



Gijmiiotliorax {Limamvriena) argns, Steindachner, Ich. Notizen, x, 17, pi. IV, 1870, Altata, 

 3Iurxtia argus, Jordan & Davis, I. c, 610. 



661. I»HJB.ENA RETIFERA, Goode & Bean. 



Vomerine teeth small, sharp ; teeth all uniserial, large and strong in 

 the jaws ; those in front not enlarged; head 2f to 3 in trunk; tail a little 

 longer than rest of body. Jaws curved along the gape so that they can 

 not be completely closed, liody covered by well-defined reticulations, 

 inclosing light yellowish brown spots, w^hich posteriorly are arranged in 

 groups of 5 to 8 ; gill opening largely black, within a conspicuous dark 

 blotch ; angle of mouth with a dark spot ; inside of mouth with yellow- 

 ish brown spots. Coast of South Carolina, in rather deep water, occa- 

 sionally brought to the Charleston markets. (re<e, net ; fero, I bear.) 



Murieiia retifcra, GoODE & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, 435, off Charleston. (Type No. 

 31393. Coll. C. C. Leslie.) Jordan A: Gilbert, Synopsis, 894, 1883; Jordan, Cat. Fish. N- 

 A., 51, 1885 ; Jordan & Davis, ?. c, 610. 



662. JlURiENA MELANOTIS (Kaup). 



Cleft of mouth 2^ to 2^ in head ; head 2i to 2i in trunk ; tail a little 

 longer than rest of body ; teeth of upper jaw anteriorly in two rows, the 

 inner teeth larger and farther apart; canines moderate. Color dark 

 brown with many small obscure whitish spots, these sometimes over 

 whole body, sometimes confined to head and back anteriorly ; belly plain 

 brown ; dark spot on gill opening and at angle of mouth always conspic- 

 uous; a pale spot on base of lower jaw before the dark one. Tropical 

 Atlantic, from Africa to South America, its range in the West Indies 

 uncertain, from confusion with other species- (fxiTiag, black ; oii^, ear.) 

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