208 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 56. 



and St. Jago,' and Clark lists those obtained by the Scotia.'^ Detailed 

 accounts and figures of a Goree collection are given by Steindachner.^ 



SARDINELLA AURITA (Valenciennes). 



Two examples. 



MURAENA MELANOTIS (Kaup). 



Head, 8; depth, 12^; combined head and trunk shorter than rest 

 of body by space between eye and gill-opening; snout, 6 in head meas- 

 ured from upper jaw tip; interorbital, 7^; upper jaw to rictus, 2^; eye, 

 2f in snout, 2^ in interorbital. Snout length, about 1^ its width. 

 Lower jaw well protruded. Teeth imiserial, strongly compressed, 

 entire. Two fang-like teeth in front above, hind one larger. Nostrils 

 in short tubes of about equal length, three in eye, posterior slightly 

 before eye. Anal edge inconspicuously and narrowly pale brown. 

 General color dark chocolate brown with largely uniform appearance. 

 Length, 1,373 mm. 



This example does not show the short dark vertical lines forming 

 squares on front part of body above, as indicated in Kaup's figure of 

 Limamuraena melanotis* though the characteristic black rictal blotch 

 and much larger one embracing the gill-opening quite conspicuous. 

 The tail and trunk also show traces of obscure dark blotches or spots, 

 and along dorsal fin several distinct blackish blotches. Muraena 

 clepsydra Jordan and Evermann differs in color and has a much 

 shorter lower jaw, the black rictal blotch with white blotch imme- 

 diately forward and anal edge not pale. 



GYMNOTHORAX FUNEBRIS (Ranzani). 



One example, 950 mm. Edge of anal very narrowly pale. Com- 

 pared with an example from Santo Domin go, West Indies, it largely 

 agrees, except in its more olive-brown tinge. Bloch's figure of G. 

 afer ^ shows a moray with well blotched or deeper dark markings 

 and is closely related to Muraena moringua Cuvier, as contended by 

 Jordan and Davis.^ 



ABLENNES HIANS (Valenciennes). 



One 760 mm. (jaws damaged). Compared with a slightly smaller 

 example from St. Cliristopher's Island, West Indies, which measures 

 384 mm. (beak broken), the scales are different, due to age. In the 

 West Indian fish the circuli are all more or less united, and with the 

 median narrow vertical area always more or less bridged, at least 

 above and below. In the Cape de Verde example they are always 



1 Rep. Voy. Challenger, Zool., vol. 1, 1880, p. 3. 



' Scottish Nat. Ant. Exp. Zool., vol. 4, Fishes, 1915, pp. 382-384. 



» Denk. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. 45, 1882, pp. 1-15, pis. 1-6. 



* Abhand. Naturw. Verein Hamburg, vol. 4, 1859 (1860), p. 27, pi. 4. 



6 Nat. Ausl. Fisch., vol. 9, 1795, p. 85, pi. 417. 



« Uep. U. S. Fish Comm., 1888 (1892), p. 603. 



