9 CATALOGUE OF FISH. 



under cue is unusually short and round. The foremost nostril is 

 situated under the projecting snout, and the hinder one in the lip 

 beneath the eye. The eyes are placed nearer to the corner of the 

 mouth than to the tip of the snout. The nasal teeth are disposed 

 in two incomplete rows. The palatine teeth form a semicircle. 

 Pectoral fins very short, scarcely visible. The tail tipped by a 

 thorn-like point. 



1. Leiuranus coldbkikus. 



Mursena colubrina, Bodd. apud Pall. Beitr. xi. p. 56, tab. ii. f. 3. 



M. annulata, Thunb. Spic. Ichth. viii. t. i. f. 1. 



Gymnothorax annulatus, Bl. Schn. p. 527. 



Ophisurus fasciatus, Lac. iv. p. 686. 



Oph. colubrinus et vimineus, Rich., Ereb. S Terr. pp. 100 and 106 ; 



Ichth. of Sulph. p. 107, pi. 52, f. 16-20; Report, p. 314. 

 Leiuranus Lacepedii et Stethopterus vimineus, Bleeker, Muranoiden, 



p. 24. 

 Ophisurus multizonus, Cuv. (Paris. Mus.). 



Having from 28 to 33 black cross-bars, which do not embrace the 

 white belly. Head and tail tipped with white. In the Parisian 

 collection there is a black variety from Java. 



China, Mauritius, Malayan Archipelago. 



b. Vomerine teeth uniserial, suh-biserial, or hiserial. Palatine and 

 mandihular teeth uniserial. 



Genus 2. CENTRUROPHIS, Kaup. 



A transparent, thorn-like, caudal tip. Vomerine teeth standing 

 in a single series, or sometimes partially or wholly biserial. The 

 nasal teeth reaching beyond the under jaw. 



2. Centeurophis spadiceus, fig. 1. 

 Ophisurus spadiceus, Bich., Ereb. d Terr. p. 103; Beport, p. 313. 



A moderately-elongated shape, with an outstretched, more oval 

 head. Eyes situated nearer to the angle of the mouth than to the 

 end of the snout. Pectoral fins as long as the jaws. 



Five or six teeth implanted in the projecting nasal bone, in an 

 aroh turned backwards. 17-22 short palatine teeth, bent inwards, 

 and commencing in the vicinity of the first vomerine teeth. 17 vo- 

 merine teeth. 19 mandibular teeth, of which the foremost are the 

 longest. In a specimen in the Leyden Museum, I noticed the 

 vomerine teeth to be in two irregular rows ; and in another, these 

 teeth to be in two rows at their commencement only. 



In the example, whose head I have sketched, the general tint is 



