40 BULLETIN 180, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



GYMNOTHORAX BUROENSIS (Bleckcr) 

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Muraena huroensls Bleekehi, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind., vol. 13, p. 79, 1S57 ; Atlas 

 ichthyologique . . ., vol. 4, p. 90, pi. 190, Hf. 1, 1864. 



The following specimens are like the figure of G. ercodes cited in 

 key: 



116010, Enderbury Island, reef, May 15-19, 1039, 45 specimens, 40 to 247 mm. ; 

 several females have ripe eggs loose in their body cavities. 



116011, Tutuila Island, reef at entrance to Pago Pago Bay, June 2, 1939, 5 

 specimens, 161 to 292 mm. 



116009, Tau Island, reef at Siulagi Point, June 27, 1939, 7 specimens, 56 to 

 95 mm. 



110018, Hull Island, channel, July 8-12, 1939, 2 specimens, 45 to 70 mm. 



11G019, Tutuilii Island, Fagasa Bay, rock pools, June 5, 1939, 1 specimen, 

 54 mm. 



11G020, Hull Island, reef, July 12-15, 1939, 9 specimens, 50 to 125 mm. 

 . 116021, Rose Island, lagoon, June 12 to 20, 1939, 5 specimens, 46 to 167 mm. 



116014, Canton Island, reef at ocean, April 25-28, 1939, 2 specimens, 112 and 

 180 mm. 



116017, Canton Island, lagoon, April 23 to May 12, 1939, 1 specimen, 183 mm. 



116022, Swains Island, reef, May 3-9, 1939, 3 specimens, 70 to 98 mm. 

 110012, Tutuila Island, reef at Alofau, June 3, 1939, 4 specimens, 145 to 288 mm. 

 11G016, Canton Island, reef of widest shallow channel. May 13, 1939, 1 specimen, 



117 mm. 



11G013, Canton Island, lagoon. May 23 to 25, 1939, 1 specimen, 252 mm. 



116023, Rose Island, reef, June 11-14, 1939, 102 specimens, 56 to 330 mm. 



116015, Rose Island, reef, June 11-14, 1939, 2 specimens; these are more like 

 pi. 190, fig. 1, in Bleeker's Atlas tlian like the figure of O. ercodes, IGO and 180 mm. 



52509, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 4 specimens. 



118399, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen, 150 mm. female with 

 eggs loose in her body cavity. 



50843 (type of Gymnothorax ercodes Jenkins examined by me), from Hawaii. 



52534 (referred to this species with uncertainty), Apia, Samoa, Jordan and 

 Kellogg, 1 specimen. 



GYMNOTHORAX LEUCOSTICTUS Jenkins 



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Oymnothorax leucosticius Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm., vol. 22 (1902), p. 425, 

 fig. 5, 1903. 



52.326, Apia, Samoa, Jordan and Kellogg, 1 specimen. 



50681 (type of G. lencostictus Jenkins examined by me), from Honolulu. 



GYMNOTHORAX MONOSTIGMA (Regan) 



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 Muraena monostigma Regan, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 4, p. 438, 1909. 



115988, Swains Island, reef, May 3-9, 1939, 13 specimens, 170 to 545 mm. 



115989, Enderbury Island, reef, May 15-19, 1939, 24 specimens, 205 to 585 mm. 

 115992, Hull Island, reef, July 12-15, 1939, 1 specimen, 180 mm. 



