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larger, and the anus a little farther forward, I have given it a specific 

 name. 



Length, 12-4 in. To anus, 5-35 in. To gill-opening, 1-46 in. 



Sea of Borneo (Sir Edward Belcher). [Richardson.) 



Java (A'?(/i/). 



This species is undoubtedly distinct from isinrjleena [Kaup). 



3. Almost of a single tint. 



148. Thyksoidea longissima. 



Thyrsoidea longissima, Kaup. 



Diar/n. Length of the head contained twenty times in the length 

 of the whole body. An extremely elongated form, with a long head 

 and very large mouth. The eyes situated much nearer to the tip 

 of the snout than to the corner of the mouth. Dorsal commencing 

 an inch behind the occiput. Lateral line composed of interrupted, 

 short, whitish, and sunken lines. The colour is dark brown, or, 

 perhaps, greenish, with lighter under surface. 



Nasal teeth, 12; vomerines, 7, short, and forming one row. 

 Palatines, 20 in the outer row, 8 in the inner row. Mandibulars, 

 also 20 in the outer row, and 8 iu the inner one. 



Total length, 38-58 in. Length of tail, 23-32 in. Length of 

 the mouth, 1-54 in. To the eye, 020 in. To the gill-opening, 

 3-78 in. Height of the body, 0-82 in. 



An Indian specimen, taken at Bombay by Dussumier, measured 

 58f in. 



Sea of Hindostan (Paris Museum. Two specimens). 



149. Thyrsoidea lineopinnis, fig. 61. 



MurJEna lineopinnis, Rich., Ereh. d Terr. 89. 

 Mursenophis vicine, Castelneau, pi. 42, fig. 4 



Pxays: circiter, D. 320; A. 160 = 480. 



About 10 pretty tall, compressed-subulate, very acute, uniserial 

 nasal teeth, and an equal number of small teeth in the intervals. 

 Three taller mesial teeth, and 7 or 8 small acute vomerine ones, 

 set alternately a little to the right and left, so as to approach a Use- 

 rial arrangement. Fourteen narrowly-lanceolate palatine teeth, the 

 3 anterior ones being small, the middle ones larger, and the poste- 

 rior ones decreasing gradually as they approach the corner of the 

 mouth. One or two very slender, and not tall, movable interior 

 teeth, at the fore part of the bone, render the arrangement biserial. 

 The fore part of the mandible is armed, on each limb, by 4 or 5 

 tall stout teeth, with a small and rather more exterior one in each 

 interval. These are followed, on the sides of the bone, by 6 small, 



