Nasal teeth, 21, pretty tall, rathei* widely set, subulate, and very 

 acute, in one series forming a semicircle round the end of the jaw, 

 the front teeth being the lowest, and 11 of them taller than the 

 rest. Three tall, subulate, and slightly-recurved mesial teeth on the 

 disk. Followed after an interral bij 9 nhort, acute, vomerine teeth, 

 disposed in one slightly-irregular row. Palatine teeth, 17, tapering, 

 and very acute ; the 4 anterior ones shortest, the middle of the 

 series tallest, and all slightly reflex ; an inner row of palatine teeth 

 is formed by 3 taller ones. Each limb of the mandible is armed by 

 16 or 18 teeth, resembling the palatine ones, with 3 tall subulate 

 interior ones at the fore end, making there two rows. 



This slender and considerably compressed Murana, has the dorsal 

 commencing well forward on the nape before the gill-openings, and 

 the anus situated about one twenty-sixth part the whole length 

 before the middle of the fish. The tail is acute. The colours have 

 totally faded. Solander's short description which mentions them is 

 as follows : — " Iris castanea. Pupilla ni//ra, annulo luteo. Pori 

 capitis concolores cum corpore. Tota e sordide purpureo fusca,fasciis 

 maculisque transversalihus, latis, numerosis, nigricantihus ; tarn oh- 

 sciirns est 2}iscis ut primo intuitu vi.v inter colorem corporis et fascias 

 differentia videtur. Denies in maxillis et fauce uti in anteccdente 

 (M. atomaria). Nullum autem labia faucis videre licuit." — Solander, 

 1. c. {Richardson.) 



Length, 13-5 in. To anus, 6-22 in. To gill-opening, 1-02 in. 

 [Rich.) To the anus, 6-30 in. ; length of tail, 7-39 in. [Kaup.) 



Polynesia. 



The British Museum possesses a specimen of this fish preserved 

 in spirits, which was obtained from the College of Surgeons, and 

 ■was 'most probably the individual taken ou Cook's first voyage, at 

 the Society Islands. The native name is written " Epui" or 

 " Ebui." [Richardson.) 



This species approaches very near to Murana tristis (115). 



2. Spotted Species. 



145. TlITESOIDEA MOP.INGUA. 



Mura^na moringua, Cuv. Regn. An. 11; Rich., Ereb. S Terr. 89. 

 Munena curvilineata et caramura, Castelneau, pi. 42, f. 2, and 43, 

 f. 1. 



Rays : D. 323 ; A. 232 = 555 (Jamaica spec). 



Nasal teeth, 12, tall, stoutly subulate, compressed, with sharp 

 edges, and generally 2 minute teeth between each pair, all in one 

 row. Three mesial teeth, and 9 venj acute, shortly-subulate, vomerine 

 teeth in one row. Palatine teeth, 18 or 19, much compressed, acute 

 and reflex, the anterior 3 small, and succeeded immediately by the 



