78 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol.99 



GYMNOTHORAX VIQNUS (Castelnau) 



Murenophis vicina Castelnau, Animaux nouveaux ou rares recueillis dans les 

 parties centrales de TAmdrique du Sud, vol. 2, pt. 7, ZooL, Poissons, p. 81, 

 pi. 42, fig. 4, 1855 (Bahia). 



Gymnothorax vicinus Tortonese, Bol. Mus. Zool. Anat. Comp. Univ. Torino, 

 vol. 47, No. 89, p. 51, 1939 (Puerto Cabello, Venezuela). 



GYMNOTHORAX MORINGA Cuvier 

 MORBNA 



Gymnothorax moringa Cuvier, Le rftgne animal, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 352, 1829 (Bahamas) 

 (ref. copied). — Rohl, Fauna descriptiva de Venezuela, p. 375, fig. 187, 1942 

 (coast of Venezuela). 



Muraena {Gymnothorax) moringa Metzelaar, Report on the fishes collected by 

 Dr. J. Boeke in the Dutch West Indies, 1904-1905, p. 18, 1919 (Venezuela). 



GYMNOTHORAX OCELLATUS Agassiz 



Gymnothorax ocellatus Agassiz, in Spix and Agassiz, Selecta genera et species 

 piscium . . . Brasiliam . . . , p. 91, pi. 50b, 1831 (mouth of large Brazilian 

 equatorial rivers). 



Muraena {Priodonophis) ocellata Metzelaar, Report on the fishes collected by 

 Dr. J. Boeke in the Dutch West Indies 1904-1905, p. 19, 1919 (Venezuela) 



Family ECHELIDAE: Worm Eels 



Genus MYROPHIS Liitken 



Myrophis LtJtken, Vid. Medd. Nat. For. K]0benhavn, 1851, p. 1. (Genotype, 

 Myrophis punctatus Liitken.) (Ref. copied). 



An excellent key to the species of the genus Myrophis occurring in 

 the Atlantic is given by Dr. A. E. Parr in the Bulletin of the Bingham 

 Oceanographic Collection, vol. 3, No. 4, p. 9, 1930. 



MYROPHIS PUNCTATUS Lutken 



Myrophis punctatus Ltjtken, Vid. Medd. Nat. For. Kj0benhavn, 1851, p. 1 (West 

 Indies) (Ref. copied). 



U.S.N. M. No. 123169, 1 specimen, 197 mm. in total length, from Cape San 

 Romdn, April 2, 1925. 



Order SYNBRANCHIOIDEA 

 Family SYNBRANCHIDAE 



Genus SYNBRANCHUS Bloch 



Synhranchus Bloch, Naturgeschichte der auslandischen Fische, vol. 9, p. 86, 1795. 

 (Genotype, Synhranchus marmorata Bloch.) 



SYNBRANCHUS MARMORATUS Bloch 



Synhranchus marmoratus Bloch, Naturgeschichte auslandischen Fische, vol. 9, 

 p. 86, 1795. — Ernst, Estudios sobrc la flora y fauna de Venezuela, p. 282, 

 1877 (creeks near Caracas). 



