yb CATALOGUE OF FISH. 



170. Ltmamur.ena guttata. 



MurxnagnttatSi, Banks and Sol. MSS., Icon.Park. 11, 1, Bib. Banks: 



Low, Fishes of Madeira, Tr. Zool. Soc. 11, p. 192 ; Richardsou, 



Ereh. d Ten: p. 90. 

 Murrena pavouina, Rich., Voy. of Siilpli., 110, pi. 53, f. 2; Ereh. 



d- Terr. p. 90. 

 Murgena partialis, Temm. etScliJ., F. Jap. 2(38, t. 119. 

 Calamaia paum, Russell. 



Diagn. Colour, pitch-black, varied by regular oval spots, shaded 

 off with brown, and smaller on the head and fins than on the 

 bod3^ 



Ten or 12 moderately-tall, slightly-recurved, acute, uniserial, 

 nasal teeth, with a minute tooth in each interval. Three teeth on 

 the mesial line, the posterior 2 being, as usual, the tallest in the 

 mouth. The vomerine series, commencing at a considerable dis- 

 tance behind these, is composed of 5 or 6 acute teeth. Palatine 

 teeth biserial ; 10 or 17 in the outer row, compressed, subulate, and 

 acute, with 6 tall, slender, and acute ones, more widely set in the 

 interior row, which reaches about half-way along the outer series. 

 Each limb of the mandible is armed by about 19 subulate, slightly- 

 recurved teeth, forming the exterior row, with a second row at the 

 fore end of the limb, composed of 4 tall, slender, acute teeth. 



Body high and much compressed, with a bi'oad dorsal, which 

 commences at a considerable distance before the gill-opening, and 

 becomes comparatively very narrow as it rounds the end of the tail 

 to join the anal. The gill-opening is one-seventh of the whole 

 length distant from the end of the snout, and the vent is one- 

 twentieth of the length before the middle of the fish. 



Length, 9'0 in. To anus, 4-4 in. To gill-opening, li in. 

 {Richardson.) 



Madeira, Brazils. 



There can be no doubt of this being the species described by 

 Solander as quoted above. He says, " tentacula quatuor lanceolata, 

 cowpressa hrevia, duo in apice rostri, duo supra ancfidos anticos 

 oculorum." The name he gave it is the oldest, and must be 

 adopted. Risso, at a much later date, bestowed the same appella- 

 tion on a variety of Murana Helena. 



Genus 33. POLYURANODON, Kaiqx 



Thyrsodeinm having three rows of pointed teeth on the palatine 

 bones. Nasals, 14 uniserial. Vomerines, 5-6 uniserial. Mandi- 

 bulars anteriorly quadriserial, posteriorly biserial. 



171. POLTURANODON KuHLII. 



Muraeua polyuranodon, Bleeker. 



