102 MTJKJENIDiE. 



p. 53 ; or Atl. Ichth. Mur. p. 97, pi. 31. fig. 1), appears to be a va- 

 riety of M. stelUfera. Like the specimen on which M. stellifera was 

 founded, the type of G. margantophorns is a young individual, dif- 

 fering from the other only in having an interrupted broad brown 

 band from the eye along the upper side of the back to above the 

 gill-opening. 



a. Eight and a half inches long. Amboyna. From Dr. Bleeker's 

 Collection. 



y. Maxillury teeth uniserial. 



11. Mursena punctata. 



Gymnothorax puuctatus, Bl. Schn. p. 526. 

 Calamaia paum, Russell, pi. 32. 



Miiraena punctata, Richards. Voy. Ercb. <^ Terr. Ichth. p. 8.3 (copied by 

 Kaup, Apod. p. 64). 



Teeth uniserial ; mandible with about twenty-three teeth on each 

 side, the four anterior being the largest. Canines moderately deve- 

 loped; the mouth can be shut completely. Anterior nasal tubes 

 rather short, only half as long as the eye. Oill-opening vmle, at least 

 twice as wide as the eye. Snout compressed, rather produced, 

 pointed, more than twice as long as the eye. Eye of moderate size, 

 situated above the middle of the gape. Cleft of the mouth wide, half 

 as long as the head. Tail rather longer than the body. The length 

 of the head is two-fifths of that of the trunk. Blackish brown, all 

 parts with numerous bluish-white darker-edged oceUi, the largest 

 on the tail being about of the size of the pupil, and those on the 

 anterior part of the body not being much smaller. 



Coast of Southern India. 



a. Adult. Madras. Collected by Surgeon F. Day. 



b. Adult : stuffed. 



12. Muraena conspersa. 

 Gymnothorax conspersus, Poey, Repert. Fis.-nat. Cuba, ii. p. 259. 



Teeth uniserial, mandible with about seventeen teeth on each side ; 

 vomerine teeth small, biserial. Anterior teeth large. Tail but little 

 longer than the body. The length of the head is two-fifths of the 

 distance between the gill-opening and vent. The diameter of the 

 eye is somewhat less than one-half of the length of the snout. TTie 

 whole body is covered with very small blue dots one-sixth of the 

 diameter of the eye, their distance from one another being equal to 

 the diameter of the eye. The anterior and superior half of the head 

 without dots. (Poey.) 



Cuba. 



13. Mursena ocellata. 



Gymnothorax ocellatus, Agass. in Spiv, Pise, Bras. p. 91, tab. 506. 

 Muraena meleagris, Qtcuy ^ Gaim. Voy. Freifc. Zool. p. 245, pi. 52. 



fig. 2. 

 ocellata, Jenyns, Voy. Beagle, p. 145 ; Richards. Vuy. Ereb. ^ 



Terr. Ichth. p. 82, pi. 47. figs. 6-10 (copied by Kaun. Apod. p. 61) 



