Gvmnotliorax javauicus, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. Miircrn. p. 05, pi. ;>5. tig. 2. 

 tlavomarginatus, Bleek. I. c. pi. 32. tig. 2, and pi. 84. fig. 'i. 



Teeth uiiiserial, except the Yomerine series, which is forked in 

 front. Canines of moderate size, the month shutting completely. 

 Mandible with from eighteen to twenty-two teeth on each side, the 

 two anterior being canines. Anterior nasal tubes very short. 

 Snout rather high, of moderate length. Eye small, one-half or two- 

 fifths of the length of the snout, situated above the middle of the 

 cleft of the mouth, which is two-fifths of the length of the head. 

 Gill-opening wider than the eye. Tail as long as the body. The 

 length of the head is contained thrice and one-third or thrice and 

 four-fitths in that of the trunk. Gill-opening in a blacJc spot. Body 

 brown, densely marbled with black ; head and end of the tail quite 

 black. In a variety (M. Javanica) the black spots are large, 

 rounded, well-defined, forming about thi-ee longitudinal series. 

 Sometimes two black depressed lines along the anal fin ; fins fre- 

 quently with a white edge. 



Eed Sea ; Indian and Pacific Oceans. 



(I. Very large specimen. Port Natal. Purchased of Mr. Thomas 

 Ayres. 



/). Adult: stuft'ed. Zanzibar. From Lieut.-Col. Playfair's Col- 

 lection. 



c, d. Half-grown. Zanzibar. 



e. Large example. Seychelles. Presented by Prof. E. Perceval 

 Wright. 



/'. Adiilt. Java. Erom Dr. Bleeker's Collection. — Type of M. 

 Javanica. 



(j,li. Half-grown. East-Indian archipelago. From Dr. Bleeker's 

 Collection. — Types of M. hatueiisis. 



i. Skin of a very largo example, in spirits. Norfolk Island. Pre- 

 sented by J. B. Jukes, Esq. 



40. Muraena moringa. 



Ca(c6hi/, Carol, v.. tab. 20 & 21. 



Murffina, no. 5, Kkin, Pise. Miss. iii. p. 29 : Gronov. Zoaiihyl. no. 165. 



? Murrcna brasiliensis, Bl. Sc/m. p. 529. 



Murrena moringa, Cuv. Regne Aniin. 



moringua, Richards. Voy. Ereb. & Terr. Fish. p. 89 (cop. by 



lump, Apod. p. 79). 

 Gymnotliorax rostratus, Ar/ass. in Spi.v, Rise. Bras. p. 91, tab. 50 rt. 

 ]\Iurenophis rostrata, Castcln. Anim. Am. Sud, Roiss. p. 80, pi. 42. 



lig.l. 



cuTvilineata, Castebi. I. c. p. 81, pi. 42. tig. 2. 



?\Iurffina punctata, Gi-onov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 18 (not Bl. Schn.). 



Teeth uniserial ; canines large, the jaws not shutting completely ; 

 mandible with from twenty-three to twentj^-eight teeth on each side, 

 of ^\]lich the three anterior are canines, the third being separated 

 from the preceding by an interspace. The length of the anterior 

 nasal tubes is less than the vertical diameter of the eye. Snout 

 jiroduced, narrow. Ej^o of moderate size, two-fifths of the length 



