40 MtJEiENinjE. 



a. Adult. East-Indian archipelago. From Dr. IJleeker's Collection. 



b. Adult : not in good state. Malayan peninsula. From Dr. Han- 



tor's Collection. 



c. Adult: skin, ^^alay an peninsula. Irom Dr. Cantor's Collection. 



2. Mursenesox talabonoides. 



Miirsena myrus, Gronov. Syst. ed. Gray, p. 20. 



Conger talabonoides, Bleck. Vcrh. Bat. Gen. xxv. Mur. p. 20. 



Mm-ajnesox talabonoides, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. Mur. p. 23, pi. 10. fig. 2. 



Anterior vomerine teeth slender, straight, the posterior com- 

 pressed, with basal lobes, the teeth of the outer mandibulary series 

 pointing outwards. Snout very long and narrow. 



Java. 



a. Type of the species. Java. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection. 



b. Adult : skin. From Gronow's Collection. 



3. Muraenesox cinereus. 



Mursena cinerea, Forsk. Descr. Ati, pp. x and 22. 



arabica, Bl. Schn, p. 488. 



bagio, Ham. Buck. pp. 24, 364. 



Opbisurus rostratus, Quoy 8f Gaim. Voy. JJran. Zool. p. 242, pi. 51. 



fig. 1. 

 Conger longirostris, Be7m. in Life of Itafjp.cs, p. G92. 



oxyrbjnchus, Eydoux ^" Soul. Voy. Bon. i. p. 203, pi. 9. fig. 2. 



IMurffinesox tricuspidata, M'ClelL Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. p. 4U9, 



pi. 24. fig. 1. 



hamiltonii, M'ClcU. I. c. v. pp. 182, 210, pi. 8. fig. 3. 



bengalensis, M' Clcll. I. c. 



Congrus tricuspidatus, Richards. Voy, IStdph. Fish. p. 105, pi. 51. 



fig. 2 (half-grown) ; Ichth. Chin. p. 312 : or Voy. Ereb. i!r Terr. 



Fish. p. 110. 

 Conger hamo, Schley. Faun. Japon. Poiss. p. 2G2, pi. 114. fig. 2 ; 



Richards. Voy. Ereb. <§• Terr. Fish. p. 111. 

 bagio, Cant. Mai. Fish. p. 310 ; Bleck. Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind. iii. 



p. 777 ; or Verh. Bat. Gen. xxv. Mur. p. 22. 

 Congrus protervus, Richards. Voy, Ereb. i^ Terr. Fish. p. 110. 



angustidens, Richards. I. c. 



brevicuspis, Richards. I. c. p. 111. 



Conger singapurensis, Bleek. Verh. Bat. Gen. Mur. xxv. p. 21. 

 Miirajnesox bagio, Peters, Wiegm. Arch. 18o5, p. 270 ; Katip, Apod. 



p. 110, pi. 14. fig. 73; Bleck. Atl. Ichth. Mur. p. 24, pi. 20. fig. 2; 



Kner, Novara, Fisch. p. 373. 

 singapui-ensis, Bleek. I. c. p. 25, pi. 7. fig. 2 ; Kner, I. c. p. 373. 



Vomerine teeth compressed, with a basal lobe in front and be- 

 hind ; the teeth of the inner scries of the mandible simihir in form 

 to, and much smaller than, those of the vomer, and but rarely with 

 basal lobes ; those of the outer scries nxdiraentary, not bent out- 

 wards. 



The length of the snout ;uid the number and form of the tooth 

 are subject to slight individual variations; but by the characters 

 given the species will be readily recognized. 



Indian Ocean and arcliipelago to Japan aiid vVustralia. 



