24. J1UK.ENA. 117 



0. Half-grown. Australia. Presented by J. E. Jukes, Esq. — Type 



of M. siderea. 

 p, q. Adult and young, Australia. 



r. Adult. Samoa Islands. From the Godefiroy Collection. 

 s-t. Young, Feejee Islands. Voyage of the ' Herald,' 

 u. Young. 



40, Muraena nubila. 

 Murajna nubila, Richards. Voy. Ereb. i^- Teir. p. 81, pi. 40. figs. 6- 

 10 (cop. by Kaup, Apod. p. 57, fig. 48). 



similis, Richards. I. c. p. 83 (cop. by Kaup. Apod. p. 03). 



kidako, Schkp. Faun. Japon. Poiss. p. 200, pi. 117. 



Gyninothorax sagenodeta, Bleek. Atl. Ichth. Mm: p. 100, pi. 40. 

 fig. 4 (not synon.) (young). 



chilospilus, Rlcek. Ned. Tydschr. Dierk. ii. p. 52; or All. Ichth. 



Mur. p. 103, pi. 44. fig. 1 (young). 



Skin smooth. Teeth unisenal, ivilhout basal lobe ; mandible with 

 from 14 to 16 on each side ; canines moderately developed, the 

 mouth shutting completely. The length of the anterior nasal tubes 

 is rather less than the vertical diameter of the eye Snout com- 

 pressed, somewhat produced ; eye small, one-half or two-fifths of 

 the length of the snout, situated a little nearer to the angle of the 

 mouth than to the end of the snout. Gill-opening as wide as the 

 eye. Tail a little longer than the body ; the length of the head is 

 contained twice and one-half or twice and two-thirds in that of the 

 trunk. Gill-opening without large black spot. Brownish, with ir- 

 regular dark brovra blotches, more or less confluent into transverse 

 band-liive spots. Anal Jin with a black and white margin. Angle 

 of the mouth brown, luith a more or less distinct white spot in front. 



East-Indian archipelago ; Japan ; Norfolk Islands. 



a. Adult, Norfolk Islands. Presented by Sir J, Richardson, — 



Type of the species, 



b. Adiilt, Japan. — Type of M. similis. 



c. Adult, Japan, Purchased of Mr. Jamrach, 



d. Adult, Formosa. From Consul Swinhoe's Collection, 



e. Young, Ambojoia, From Dr, Bleeker's Collection as M. sage- 



nodeta. 



f. Young, East-Indian archipelago. From Dr, Bleeker's Collec- 



tion, — Type of 31. chilospilus. 



Murcena millleri, Kaup, Apod, p, 69, fig. 54, from the East-Indian 

 archipelago. — I should not hesitate to unite this with lU. nidnla if 

 the author had not stated that he has found twenty two maudibidary 

 teeth in the specimen examined by him. Dr. Bleeker says that he 

 was unable to find the typical example in the Leyden "Museum, 



41. Muraena sagenodeta,. 



Richards. Voy. Ereb. 4' Terr. Fish. p. 81 ; Kaup, Apod. p. 59. 

 Skin smooth. Teeth uniserial, those of the upper jaw ivith a pos- 

 terior basal lobe ; mandible with about 18 teeth on each side ; 

 canines moderately developed (the mesial being lost in the tj'pical 



