ADDENDA 52. MUR^NID.® MUR.ENA. 
895 
in two series, the outer series of a few short, fixed teeth 5 the inner 
series of about 10 long, compressed teeth, a lew of which are depressi- 
ble, all more or less directed backward; those ot the middle of the jaw 
somewhat larger than those in front. Vomer with 1 or 2 depressibh* 
canines. Teeth of lower jaw similar to those of upper ; the large teetli 
rather shorter and broader; teeth all entire; mouth not closing com- 
pletely. The tubes of anterior and posterior nostrils about equal, 
slightly shorter than eye. Cleft of the mouth 2f times in length of 
head; eye over middle of cleft, If in snout. Snout 6 in head. Head 
2 | in trunk. Tail very little longer than restof bod>. Dorsal mofi- 
erate, beginning over the middle of head. Gill-opening small, about 
as broad as eye. Color light brown, regularly reticulated with black- 
ish, the reticulations inclosing hexagonal or roundish spots of the 
ground color, irregular in size, longer than the eye. Entire fish fur- 
ther covered thickly with small whitish spots, smaller than the pupil: 
ihese spots smallest a^d most numerous anteriorly, nearly obsolete 011 
the belly, and present on the inside of the mouth. Gill-opening sur 
lounded by a small blackish blotch not twice as broad as eye. Angle 
of the mouth black ; dorsal with about 5 longitudinal blackish lines, 
which are obsolete posteriorly. Anal with a blackish longitudinal 
stripe. Charleston, South Carolina. 
(Goode & Beau, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas. 1882.) 
^Page 357. After Murcena ocelJafa add: 
580 (hy. ITI. aTra, (Blocli) Gthr. 
Greenish black; fins with dark lines and without pale edge. Teeth 
uniserial in old examples, the vomerine teeth being sometimes biserial; 
mandible with about 20 teeth on each side, the four anterior much lon- 
ger than toe others, and, like the canines, rather elongate. Anterior 
nasal tubes half as long as eye. Gill-opening nearly as wide as eye. 
Snout narrow, produced, pointed; eye moderate, half length of snout, 
somewhat nearer angle of mouth than end of snout. Cleft of the 
mouth wide, two-fifths length of head. Tail longer than body. Head 
2 i in trunk. Dorsal not elevated. {Giintlier.) Tropical parts of the 
Atlantic; north to Florida. 
i? Gymrwtlwrax afer Bloch, Ausl. Fische. ix, 85: Murcvitn afra Giiuther, viii, 12:1, 
in part.) 
580 (c). ITI. moringa Cnv. Moray. 
Everywhere with innumerable, confluent, irregular, brownish black 
