94 MUR-ENrD^E. 



Scaleless. Teeth well developed. GiU-openings narrow. Pectoral 

 fins none ; dorsal and anal well developed. Two nostrils on each 

 side of the upper surface of the snout ; the posterior a narrow round 

 foramen, with or without tube, the anterior in a tube. 



Seas of the temperate and tropical regions. 



parait d'un jaune mele de blanc, les taclies etoilees sont d"un poiirpre 

 tirant sur le noir ; la serie superieure de ces taelies en reuferme ordi- 

 nairement vingt, et rinierieure vingt-une. — Nouvelle Bretagne. 



3. Mura'iiophis haiiy, Lacep. v. pp. 629, G4fi, pi. 17. fig. "2. — Hab. — ? — 



Name of a drawing. 



4. Miira'na fidva, liisso, Ichth. Nice, p. 367, or Eur. Merld. iii. p. 190.— 



Mediterranean. — Corpore fLdvo, brunneo fasciato. 



5. marmorata, Quay i|'- Gaim. Vo>/. Freyc. Zool. p. 247. — Waigiou 



and Rawak. — Six inches long. 



G. Murajnophis lineata, Less. Toy. Coq. Zool. p. 127, pi. 11- fig. 1- — Island 

 of Oualan. 



7. flaveola, Less. I.e. p. 128, pi. 11. fig. 2. — Island of Ouala)i. 



8. Muraena cerino-nigra, Richards. LcMh. Chin. p. 314. — Canton. — Known 



from a drawing only. 



9. Thyrsoidea blochii, Kaup, Apod. p. 90 ; Gymnotborax borueensis, i?/ff/?-. 



Atl. Ichth. Mur. p. 102, pi. .'J7. fig. 2. — East Indies. — Known from a 

 single young example ! 



10. Murffina mieropoecilus, Blech. Naf. Tyds. Ned. Ind. viii. p. 4.59 ; Gynnio- 



thoras mieropoecilus, Bkek.Ned. Tyd't. Dicrk. i. p. 246, ov Atl. Ichth. 

 Miir. p. 10.1, pi. ;i8. fig. 1. — East-Indian archipelago. — Founded upon 

 young examples in which the specific characters are not yet developed. 

 a. Type of the species. Cocos. From Dr. Bleclcer'.s Collection. 



11. Murana mauritiana, Kmtp, Apod. p. 65. — Mauritiu.-i. — Short, obtuse 



head ; blackish, with some brown dots or markings ; fins witli a yel- 

 lowish edge. — An — M. flavomarginata ? 



12. Mura-na nigrolineata, Kaup), Apod. p. 66. — Marquesas Islands. 



l.'l. flavimarginata, Kaup, Apod. p. 67. — Bourbon. — Spotted with 



yellow; a black strijie runs from the throat to the vent. 



14. chrysops, Kemp, Apod. p. 70. — Otaheiti. — Teeth uniserial, man- 



dibulary 12. Snout considerably obtuse. Upper parts black, with 

 yellowish-brown stars and star-hke figures. Lips and mandible 

 yellowish brown, with black zigzag markings. 



lo. multiocellata, Pocy, Man. Cuba, ii. p. 324 ; and Eep)erf. Fis.-vaf. 



Culia, ii. p. 2.")8.— Cuba. 

 16. erebus, Locy, Mem. Cuh. ii. p. 426; and Bcpcrt. Fis.-nat. Cnha, ii. 



p. 2.")8.— Cuba,. 

 17. Murenophis appendicuLita, Guichcnot in Gay, Chile, p. 341. 



15. porphyreus, Giiichcnot, I.e. p. 342, lam. 11. fig. 2. 



19. Thyrsoidea 'kaupii, Ahhoff. Proc. Ac. Naf. Se. Philad. 18()0, p. 477.— 



Sandwich Islands. 



20. eurosta, Alihott, I. c. p. 478. — Sandwich Islands. 



21. concolor, Abbott, I. c. p. 479. — Vera Cruz. 



22. Gymnotborax scriptus, Bl. tichn. p. 529. — Corpore tereti, serpentiformi, 



striis transver.sis et lituris figuras litterarum arabicarum imitantibus, 

 fuscis, capite parvo, rictu angusto, cauda obtusa, naribus tubulosis. 

 — Xew Holland. 



23. Murana canina, Quoy S( Gaim. Voy. Uran. Zool. p. 247. — Uniform 



blackish ; cleft of the mouth wide, with large teeth ; eyes large ; vent 

 nearer to the head than to the end of the tail ; dorsal fin beginning on 

 the head. — Waigiou and Rawak. 



24. mordax, A/prs, Proc. Calif. Acad. Naf. Sc. 1859, p. 30. — Cerros 



Island. — Oi'igin of the dorsal about at the commencement of the second 

 third of the length of the fish. Coloration dark, with linear sliort 

 mottlings of a lighter shade. 



