24. MTJR.EiVA. 127 



moderate length ; eye small. Cleft of the mouth of moderate width. 

 Tail rather longer than the body ; the length of the head is about two- 

 sevenths of that of the trunk. Upper parts dark coloured, the lower 

 lighter. 



Bay of Bengal ; Pinang. 



a. Thirty-two and a half inches long : stuffed. 

 2. Snout slender, mticJi clanf/fifi: 



61. Muraena schismatorhynchus. 



Miirrena scliismatorhynchus, Bleek. Kat. Tyds. Ned. Ind. iv. p. .^Ol ; 



or I'erh. Beit. Gen. xxv. 31ur. p. 71. 

 congei'oides, Bleek, Act. Soc. Sc. Ind.-Neerl. viii. Sumatra, viii. 



p. 87. 

 Euryiuyctera crudelis, Kaup, Apod. p. 72, tab. 11. fig. 56 (head, 



had). 

 Gyiunothorax crudelis, Bleek. Ned. Tyds. Dierk. i. p. 168. 

 schismatorbjmchus, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. 3Iur. p. 106, pi. 40. fig. 1. 



Snout narrow, much elongate, more than twice the diameter of the 

 eye, which is large. Cleft of the mouth very ivide, half as long as 

 the head. Teeth uniserial in adult examples ; mandihie luith about 

 36 teeth on each side ; canines large ; the mouth cannot be shut 

 completely. Gill-opening at least as wide as the eye. Tail rather 

 shorter than the body ; the length of the head is contained twice 

 and one-third in that of the trunk. Uniform brown ; fins with 

 a white margin. 



East-Indian archipelago. 



a. Type of M. schismatorhynchus. Sumatra. From Dr. Bleeker's 



Collection. 



b. Type of M. congeroides. Sumatra. From Dr. Bleeker's Col- 



lection. 



62. Muraena acutirostris. 



Abbott, Broc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1800, p. 476. 



Head much compressed; jcnus greatly attenuated, very slender. 

 Teeth uniserial, compressed and very acute ; canines long ; the an- 

 terior tooth of the vomerine series much larger than the succeeding ; 

 mandible with 26 teeth on each side. Eye large. Dark brown, 

 irregularly reticulated with narrow bands of white. Tail longer 

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

 third in that of the tnink. (Abbott.) 



Sandwich Islands. 



3. Exceedingly elongate, the tail being txvice as long a.t the bodg. 



63. Muraena macrurus. 



Mm-pena macrurus, Bleek. Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind. \\\. p. 324. 

 Thyvsoidea lougissima, Kaup, Apod. p. 82. 



— '— macrurus, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. Mur. p. Ill, pi. 22. fig. 2; Ener, 

 Novara, Finch, p. 386. 



E.rceedingly elongate, the tail being twice as long as the body. The 



