106 CATALOGUE OF FISH. 



blue spots enclosed in black. Dr. Riippell says that the front long 

 tootli on the mesial line is a vomerine tooth. He obtained his 

 specimen at Massaua. 



Genus 40. APTERICHTHYS, Dumeril. 



Csecilia, Lacepede. 

 Sphagebranchus, Block, Cur. 



No fins. Snout elongated bej'ond the mandible. The openings 

 of the gills near to each other, as in Sphagebranchus. The anterior 

 and posterior nostrils tubular. Bod^' much elongated. Tail slender. 

 Teeth acicular, curved, and uniserial on all the bones. 



185. ApTERICHTHTS CiECUS. 



Apterichthys caecus, Dumeril, Delaroche, An. du Mus. t. 13, pi. 21, 



f. 0. 

 Crecilia Branderiana, Lacep. i., 2, p. 135. 

 Sphagebranchus caecus. Block, Sckn., 505. 

 Muraena cjeca, Linn. Syst. 420. 



Colour, an uniform brown, with some blackish spots on the head. 

 Anus situated nearer to the tip of the snout than to the end of the 

 tail. 



Ivica. Balearic Islands. 



Genus 41. MORINGUA, Gray. 



Greatly-elongated Muranm with the mandible longer than the 

 snout. Teeth distinct, acute, and recurved. Vomerines uniserial. 

 Dorsal and anal fins commencing behind the anus, then disappear- 

 ing for a space, and recommencing again, and becoming higher than 

 before at the end of the tail, which they surround. 



1 86. MOEINGUA KAITABORUA. 



Anguilla (Moringua) raitaborua, Cantor, Nat. Tyd. Batavia,' \85S, 



pi. 1. 

 Rataborua Hamiltoni, Gray, Zool. Misc. 9. 

 Rataborua Hardwickei, Gray, III. Ind. Zool. 11, f. 2. 

 Mursena raitaborua, Ham. Fisk of Ganges, 25-364 {juv.). 

 Muraena raktaborya, Ham. MSS. drawings (juv.), (from this Hard- 



wicke's figure has been copied.) 

 Moringua linearis. Gray, Let. 11, f. ]. 

 Pterurus maculatus, Swainson, Nat. H. Fisk. ii., 334, f. iii. b. 



