NO. 1913. FISHES OF OKINAWA— SNYDER. 493 



Head 3.5 in trunk; 4 in tail; snout 6 in head; eye 1.7 in snout. 

 Teeth unisonal, growing gradually snuiller from before backwards; 

 no enlarged canines; some teeth depressible, others api)arently 

 embedded in the jaw. Diameter of gill-opening about equal to that 

 of eye. 



The above description is of a specimen 900 millimeters long. 

 Another, 320 millimeters long, had life colors similar to the above, 

 but differed as follows; head 2.5 in trunk; 4 in tail; snout 5.5 in 

 head; eye 2 in snout; teeth biserial. 



GYMNOTHORAX PHILIPPINUS Jordan and Scale. 



One specimen, the second of this species that has been recorded, 

 was obtained in the Naha market. It resembles the type very closeh'. 



Sus{)ecting that this species might be s\'non3'mous with Muraena 

 reevesi Richardson,' which Giinther records from Japan, the writer 

 asked Mr. Henry W. Fowler to compare Richardson's description and 

 figure with that of Jordan and Scale. Mr. Fowler writes: "Although 

 apparently very closely related, I should be inclined to consider the 

 two species provisionally distinct. AI. reevesi has the spots on the 

 dorsal and anal large and rather sparce, similar to those on the trunk, 

 and arranged in two irregular series, one marginal and the other basal. 

 There are no median, smaller ones as in G. pMlipinnus. M. reevesi 

 has the gill-opening distinctly black. There are also 5 large, dusky 

 blotches between eye and gill-opening, and a small, dark one just over 

 gill-opening. M. reevesi further displays a large dark l)lotch on ramus 

 of mandible near its articulation, and the thorax and abdomen are 

 rather obscurely mottled." 



GYMNOTHORAX CHLAMYDATUS Snyder. 



Plate 62, fig. 1. 

 Gymnothorax chlamydatus Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, 1909, p. 94. 

 Two specimens of this remarkably beautiful eel were secured in the 

 market at Naha. 



ECmONA NEBULOSA (Ahl). 



ECHIDNA KISHINOUYEI Jordan and Snyder. 



Tlie wTiter can not follow Jordan and Scale in identifying this 

 species with E. delicatula (Kaup) if the species describetl by Bleeker - 

 is identical with that represented by Kaup's specimen. The type of 

 E. I'ishinouyei came from Okinawa. A secontl si)ecimen from the 

 Naha market does not differ from the type. These have the body, 

 including the head, much shorter than the tail, and they differ in 

 other particulars from E. delicatula as will appear when Bleeker's 

 description is compared with the following: 



Head 3 in trunk, 10 in total length; head and trunk 1.5 in tail; eye 

 14 in head; snout 7. Dorsal inserted midway between gill opening 



> Voy. Sulphur., 1848, p. 109, pi. 49, flg. 2. 

 ' All. Ichth. Muraen., p. 78, pi. 23, flg. 3. 



