24. MUK^NA. i-'" 



large whitish or yellowish spots, each of which contains smaller brown 

 spots. Head and neck brown variegated with whitish. Gill-openii)g 

 in a small brown spot ; tail with a narrow white edge. Somethnes 

 the brown colour predominates, so that nothing but small whitish 

 spots are visible, which arc more or less distinctly arranged in rings. 



Vert. 



H9-71 



72-70 • 



Mediterranean and neighbouring parts of the Atlantic ; Mauritius ; 

 Australia. 



a. Half-grown. Naples. Presented by S. Pratt, Esq. 



b, c. Half-grown. Malta. 

 d-e. Half-grown. Nice. 



/. Half-grown. Cannes. Presented by Dr. Th. Giinther. 

 (J. Adult. Cadiz. From the Haslar Collection. 

 h. Half-grown: stuffed. Mediterranean. Purchased of Mr. Ar- 

 gent. 

 i. Adult. Madeira, Presented by Sir A. Smith. 

 k. Adult. Lanzarote. Presented by the llev. II. T. Lowe. 

 /. Adult : stuffed. Mauritius. 



m. Adult. Australia. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 

 n, 0, p, q. Adult. 

 r. Adult : skeleton. Madeira. Presented by Lady Franklin. 



2. Muraena augusti. 



Muraena guttata, (Solcmder, MS.) Loive, Trans. Zool. Snc. ii. p. 102 ; 



Richards. Voij. Ereb. 8f Terr. Fish. p. 90 (not Risso). 

 ThjTsoidea augusti, Kaup, Apod. p. 88. 

 Limamuriena guttata, Kaup, Apod. p. 96 (syuou. erroneous). 

 Thyrsoidea atlautica, Johnson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G0, p. 108. 



Posterior nostrils tubular, the tubes being only half as long as the 

 anterior, the length of which equals the vertical diameter of the eye. 

 Maxillary teeth biserial, the teeth of the inner series being longei- 

 than those of the outer ; the other teeth uniscrial ; but there are 

 sometimes two or three long teeth forming an iiancr mandibulary 

 series. The anterior vomerine teeth are the longest, nearly twice 

 as long as any of the others. The mouth cannot be shut completely. 

 Gill-opening narrow, not wider than the eye. Snout pointed, 

 narrow; eye small, two-fifths of the length of the snout, a litlh' 

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

 of the mouth very wide, its width being contained twice and one- 

 third in the length of the head. Tail longer than the body. The 

 length of the head is two-fifths of that of the trunk. Erownish- 

 black (in spirits) ; the tail with numerous bluish-white dark-edged 

 dots of the size of a pin's head, disappearing on the anterior parts of 

 the body. Inside of the mouth brown, with similar white dots. 

 Fins without light margin. 



Madeira. 



a, b, c-d. Adult, half-grown, and young. Presented by .1. \. 

 Johnson, Es(j. 

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