24. MUR.ENA. 12y 



than the gill-opening. Cleft of the mouth two-lifths of the length 

 of the head. Tail longer than the body. The length of the head is 

 two-tifths of that of the trunk. Skin with very distinct scale- 

 pouchos. Uniform brown, fins with a white margin ; gular folds 

 and angle of the mouth dark brown, 

 llaoul Island. 



a. Twenty-four inches long. Collected by Mr. Macgillivray. 

 51. Mursena cinerascens. 



Riippell, Atl. Fisch. p. 120. 

 Dorsal fin rather elevated, comme)icing above the gill-opening. 

 Teeth ? Tail rather longer than the body. Uniform greyish ; fins 

 with a narrow light edge. Black longitudinal lines from the mouth 

 towards the gill-opening, {lii'qyp.) 

 Ked Sea. 



^. Dorsal Jin nut elevated. 



52. Miiraena afra. 



(iymnotliorax afer, BI. Ausl. Fisch. vs.. p. 85, tab. 417; 131. 8ehn. 



p. 52G. 

 Miirffiuophis afra, Lacep. v. p. 642. 

 Gvninothorax funebris, Hanzani, Nov. Comm. Ac. Sc. Inst. Bonon. iv. 



'1840, p. 70. 

 ^lurasua lineopinnis, Rirhards. Voy. Ereh. c^- Terr. Fish. p. 89. 



prasina, Richards. I. c. p. 93. 



boschii, Bleek. Verh. But. Gen. xxv. Mur. p. 52 ; or Nat. Tijds. 



Ned. Ind. vii. p. 103. 



uionoclirous, Bleek. Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind. x. p. 384. 



tristis, Kaup, Apod. p. 62. 



Thyrsoidea lineopinnis, Kaup, Apod. p. 82. 

 Muroena inferualis, I'uci/, Mun. Cub. ii. pp. 347, 354. 

 Tainiopbis westpliali, Kaup, Aale Ilamhurcj. Mas. Nachtray, p. 1. 

 Gymnothorax boscbi, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. Mur. p. 105, pi. 46. fig. 3. 



nionocbrous, Bleek. I. c. p. 100, pi. 47. fig. 2. 



jacksoniensis, Bleek. Versl. en Meded. Ak. Wet. Amstcrd. xv. 



1863, p. 450. 

 iufemalis, Poei/, Repert. Fis.-nat. Cuba, ii. p. 258. 



Teeth uniserial in old examples, except the vomerine teeth, which 

 are sometimes biserial. Young examples generally with the anterior 

 niandibulary and maxillary teeth biserial. Mandible with about 

 twenty teeth on each side, the four anterior of which are much 

 longer than the others, and, like the canines, rather elongate. An- 

 terior nasal tubes half as long as the eye. Gill-opening nearly as 

 tvide as the ei/e. Snout narrow, produced, pointed. Eye of moderate 

 size, half the length of the snout, situated somewhat nearer to the 

 angle of the cleft of the mouth than to the end of the snout. Cleft 

 of the mouth wide, two-fifths of the length of the head. Tail longer 

 than the body. The length of the head is contained twice and one- 

 third or twice and two-thirds in that of the trunk. Broivnish black : 

 Jius wiihout light edge. 



Tropical jiarts of the Atlantic : Indian Ocean ; Australia. 



