24. -MUll-KXA. 117 



0. Half-grown. Aiistraliii. Presented by J. B. Jukes, Esq. — Type 



of M. sklerea. 

 p, q. Adult and young. Australia. 



r. Adult. Samoa Islands. From the Godcffroy Collection. 

 s-t. Young. Feejec Islands. Voyage of the ' Herald.' 

 M. Young. 



40. Muraena nubila. 

 Miirana nul)ila, Richards. Voy. Enb. i^- Ten: p. 81, pi. 46. figs. 6- 

 10 (cop. by Kaiip, Apod. p. 57, hg. 48). 



siniilis, Richards. I. c. p. 83 (cop. by Kaup. Apod. p. 63). 



kidako, Schleg. Faun. Japan. Toiss. p. 266, pi. 117. 



Ciymnotliorax sagenodeta, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. 3Iur. p. 100, pi. 40. 

 fig. 4 (not synon.) (young). 



chilospilus, Bleek. Ned. Ti/dsclir. Dierk. ii. p. 52; or Atl. Ichth. 



3Iur. p. 103, pi. 44. fig. 1 (young). 



Skill smooth. Teeth uniserial, wifJiout basal lobe ; mandible wilh 

 from 14 to IG on each side ; canines moderately developed, the 

 mouth shutting completely. The length of the anterior nasal tubes 

 is rather less than the vertical diameter of the eye. Snout com- 

 pressed, somewhat produced ; eye small, one-half or two-fifths of 

 the length of the snout, situated a little nearer to the angle of the 

 mouth than to the end of the snout. Gill-opening as wide as the 

 eye. Tail a little longer than the body ; the length of the head is 

 contained twice and one-half or twice and two-thirds in that of the 

 trunk. Gill-opemmi without large black spot. Brownish, with ir- 

 regular dark brown blotches, more or less confluent into transverse 

 band-like spots. Anal Jin ivitli a black and tvhite margin. Angle 

 of the mouth broicn, iviih a more or less distinct irhite .spot in front. 



East-Indian archipelago ; Japan; Norfolk Islands. 



a. Adult. Norfolk Islands. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. — 



Type of the species. 

 h. Adult. Japan.- — Type of M. similis. 

 c. Adult. Japan. Purchased of Mr. Jamrach. 

 (/. Adult. Formosa. From Consul Swinhoc's Collection. 



e. Young. Amboyna. From Dr. Blocker's Collection as M. sage- 



nodeta. 



f. Young. East-Indian archipelago. From Dr. Bleeker's Collec- 



tion. — Type of Al. chilospnlus. 



Mnrcvna miilleri, Kaup, Apod. p. 69, fig. 54, from the East-Indian 

 archipelago. — I should not hesitate to unite this vnth. M. nnbila if 

 the author had not stated that he has found twenty-two mandibulary 

 teeth in the specimen examined by him. Dr. Blecker says that he 

 was unable to find the tyiucal example in the Leyden Museum. 



4 1 . Mursena sagenodeta 

 Richards. Voy. Erch. cy Ten: Fish. p. 81 ; Kaup, Apod. p. 5!). 

 Skin smooth. Teeth nniserial, those of the xipper Jatv with a pos- 

 terior has((l lobe : mandible with about 18 teeth on each side ; 

 canines moderately developed (the mesial being lost in the typical 



