4 CATALOGUE OF FISH. 



notched posteriorly. The rounded pectoral is contained twice and 

 one-third in the length of the head. Upper surface orange-green, 

 under one orange-yellow. Dorsal yellowish-green, with a red bor- 

 der. Pectoral fin, orange ; anal, orange-yellow. 



Kays: Br. 35; D. '^OO; A. 175. 



Length, 13 to 14 inches. 



Java. 



5. CE^•TRTIROP^Is grandocults, fig. 2. 



Ophisurus grandoculis, Cantor, Mai. Fish, p. 1300, pi. v. f. 3. 



Medial line of the tip of the upper jaw (nasal part) armed by a 

 double row of close subulate teeth ; in the young, each row con- 

 tains 3 or 4, but half of them vanish with age, and those that re- 

 main become stronger and blunter. At a short distance behind 

 these, the double series of vomerine teeth commence, the anterior 

 ones being the longest, and becoming subulate with age. The pos- 

 terior ones are much smaller. The palatine teeth begin on a 

 line with the front vomerine teeth, and close to them, receding from 

 them posteriorly. They are small and pointed, or subulate. The 

 subulate mandibular teeth stand also in a single series, and dimi- 

 nish in size as they recede from the toothless symphysis. 



On the upper lip, there are two papillre or cutaneous tags. Eye 

 comparatively large, and having a longitudinal diameter varying 

 from -jLth to -,\th of the length of the head. The eye occupies 

 ne.irly the whole space between the lip and the profile, and two of 

 its diameters are contained l>etween it and the tip of the snout; 

 while the distance from the latter to the angle of the mouth is 

 comprehended three times and a half in the length of the head. 

 The dorsal commences above the posterior third of the elongated 

 pectoral, and the anus is placed a little before the third fifth of 

 the entire length of the fish. The pectorals measure one-third of 

 the length of the head. [Cantor.) 



Penang. 



6. Cestrurophis brasiliensis. 

 Anguilla brasiliensis, Par. Miis. 



Resembling C. rcinicaudus ; but its head is more elongated, and 

 the deep scars, which distinguish remicaudiis, are wanting. A 

 shorter distance exists between the snout and the gill-opening, as 

 well as from the gill-opening to the beginning of the dorsal. 

 Colour, yellowish-brown, with black dots. 



Entire length, 16*15 in., whereof the tail measures O'Ofi in.; the 

 gape, or distance from the tip of the snout to the angle of the 

 mouth, 0"47 in. ; from the same extremity to the gill-opening, ] -34 

 in. ; from the snout to the dorsal. 2-92 in. Length of the pectoral, 

 0-32 in. 



Kio Janeiro (Quoy and Gaimard, Par. Mus.). 



