24. MUR.'ENA. m 



Zanzibar. From the Collections of Lieut.-Col. Playfair and 

 Dr. Kirk. 

 h. Adult. East-Indian archipelago. From Dr. Blocker's Col- 

 lection. 



c. Adult. Cocos Islands. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection. — T}-pe of 



M. agassizi. 



d. Half-grown. Sandwich Islands. Presented by Lieut. Strick- 



land. 



e. Adult : stuflfed. From the Collection of the Zoological Society. 

 f,(l. Young. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 



h. Adult : skeleton. Zanzibar. Presented by Lieut.-Col. Playfair. 



A very young example, which is now almost destroyed, has been 

 named by Dr. Bleeker Murmia hhcliii, Vejrh. Bat. Geii. xxv. Mur. 

 p. 49, or Nat. Tyds. Ned. Ind. \\\. p. 102. The description reap- 

 pears in Atl. Ichth. Mur. p. 102, and a figure is added on pi. 36, 

 fig. 2. This specimen appears to have been a young of M. tin- 

 dulata. 



a. Type of M. blocfiii. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection. 



28. Muraena macassariensis. 



Mursena thjTsoidea, Richards. Voy. Sulph. Fish. tab. 49. fig. 1 (not 



descript.). 

 Gymnothorax makassariensis, Bleek. Ned. Tydschr. Dicrk. i. p. 168 : 



or Atl. Ichth. Mur. p. 104, pi. 37. fig. 3. 

 ?? Murasna elegantissima, Kavp, Apod. p. 67. 

 Thyrsoidea macrops, Kaup, Apod. p. 74. 



Teeth uniserial, sometimes two additional teeth forming an inner 

 maxillary series ; mandibulary teeth about twenty on each side : 

 canines rather strong, hut the mouth can he shut compJeteJy. Ante- 

 rior nasal tubes short. Gill-openings narrower than the eye. Snout 

 somewhat produced, not twice so long as the eye, tvhich is large and 

 situated above the middle of the cleft of the mouth. Cleft of the 

 mouth very wide, one-half of the length of the head. Tail scarcely 

 longer than the body. The length of the head is contained twice 

 and two-thirds in that of the trunk. Brown, with very fine ver- 

 miculated white lines, formingan irregular network, the area of each 

 mesh darker in the centre. Gill-opening without blach spot. Finx 

 with a narrow tvhite margin. 



China ; Celebes ; North Australia. 



a. Adult. China. 



h. Young. China. Presented by Sir E. Belcher. — Type of Th. 



macrops. 



c, d-e. Half-grown. Cape York. Collected by Hr. Darnel. 



29. Muraena formosa. 



Gymnothorax formosus, Bleek. Ned. Tydschr. Dierk. ii. p. 51 ; or Atl. 



Ichth. Mur. p. 94, pi. 30. fig. 1. 

 rhodocephalus, Bleek. I. c. 1", p. 50 ; or I. c. 2°, p. 93, pi. 29. fig. 2 



(young). 



