53. ANGUILLIDCE OPHICHTIIYS. 
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Browuisli, with numerous small roundish black spots. ^OilntJier.) 
West Indies, north to West Florida. 
{Crotalopsis imnciifer Kaup, Abliandl. Naturwiss. Veroin Hamburg, iv, 2, 1860: 
Macrodonophis mordax Poey, Rept. Fis.-Rat. Cuba, ii, 252, 1863: Crotalopsis mordax 
Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 154; Giinther, viii, 56.) 
**No distinct canine teetli; snout moderate. (Murainopsis* Lc Sueur.) 
t Teeth in the lower jaw in a double series; cleft of mouth wide. 
5§3. O. triserialis (Kaup) Giinther. 
Body with larger and smaller roundish black spots, alternating; 
head with many small black spots above and below; belly plain; head 
and body with longitudinal streaks. Gill-openings curved, well sepa- 
rated, a little longer than pectorals. Head with longitudinal wrinkles, 
its length two-lifths the distance from the gill-opening to the vent. 
Mouth wide, its cleft more than one-third the head. Eye moderate, 
in snout. Teeth pointed, fixed, all biserial, except those on vomer, 
which are uuiserial. Pectoral fin in head, the dorsal beginning 
above its terminal ]4ortion. Tail rather longer than body. Southern 
California to Brazil. (Described from Garrett’s type of 0. cal if or mens is.) 
(Alura'nopsis triserialis Kaup, Apodes, 1856, 12; Giiuther, viii, 58: Opliisurus californi- 
ensis Garrett, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. iii, 66.) 
ft Teetli iu lower jaw iii one series. (Rerpetoichthys Kaim.) 
5§4. O. oceMataiS (Le S.) Giinther. 
A series of round white spots along the middle of the side of the 
body aud tail; dorsal fin with a black edge; some white dots on the 
back behind the head and a white line across the occiput. Length 
of the head rather less than one-third of the distance of the gill- 
oiiening from the vent. Snout iiointed, the upper jaw projecting be- 
yond the lower. Cleft of the mouth wide, two-fifths the length of the 
head. Eye of moderate size, two-thirds of the length of the snout, and 
situated in the anterior third of the head. Teeth pointed, fixed, un- 
equal in size; the intermaxillary teeth largest, arranged in a curved, 
transverse series; maxillary teeth in a double, vomerine and mandibu- 
lary teeth iu a single series ; only the anterior mandibulary teeth form 
a short, double series. Length of the iiectoral fin rather more than 
one-third that of the head; dorsal fin commencing opposite the poste- 
rior third of the iiectoral. Tail longer than the body. {Gunther.) 
West Indies, north to West Florida. 
{Murtmopsis ocellutus Le Sueur, Jourii. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbila. v, 108; Giinther, viii, 
68: Uerpcioiclithys ocellatus Goode & Beau, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1879, 155.) 
* Le Sueur, Jouru. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. v, 103: type Alurcenopsis ocellata Le S. 
Givpaiva, Marcsna; oipiZ, appearance.) 
