24. MUEJENA. 119 



<i, b, c. Many adult, half-grown, and young specimens. Zanzibar. 



d. Young. East-Indian archipelago. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection. 



— One of the typical examples of M. ceramensis. 



e. Half-grown. East-Indian archipelago. From Dr. Bleeker's 



Collection. — Tj'pe of M. richardsonii. 



f. Young. Ambojna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. 



g. Young. Sumatra. From Dr. Bleeker's Collection. — Type of M. 



scoliqdon. 

 h. Twenty-two inches long : stuffed. Houtman's Abrolhos. From 



Mr. Gilbert's Collection. 

 i. Half-grown. 



43. Muraena tenebrosa. 



Richards. Voy. Ereb. Sf Terr. Fish. p. 84 (copied by Kaup, Apod. 



p. 78). 



Body much compressed ; skin smooth. Teeth without basal lobe ; 

 the anterior teeth of the mandible subbiserial, the others uniserial ; 

 however, there are two larger teeth inside of the anterior maxil- 

 lary teeth. Canines large; the mouth cantiot be shut completely. 

 Mandible with about twenty teeth on each side. Anterior nasal 

 tubes short. Snout produced, pointed. Eye small. Cleft of the 

 mouth wide. GiU-opening narrower than the eye. Tail somewhat 

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

 three-fourths in that of the trunk. Dark purplish brown, with 

 indistinct blackish, broad, numerous transverse bands and spots. 



Polynesia. 



a. Type of the species, 13| inches long, bleached. Society Islands? 

 Presented by the Koyal College of Surgeons. 



44. Muraena marmorea. 



Mursenophis marmoreus, Valenc. in Voy. Venus, Zoul. p. 347, pi. 10. 



tig- 1- 

 Muraena marmorea, Kaup, Apod. p. 66. 



Teeth uniserial. " Yellowish brown, with black reticxilations, 

 whose longitudinal branching streaks are studded with oblong 

 yellow spots. On the ventral aspect, the spots are larger, rounder, 

 and near the throat coalescent. Dorsal fin yellowish brown, with 

 black spots." {Kaup.) 



Galapagos Islands. 



45. Mnrsena flavomarginata. 



? Muraenophis grisea, Lacep. v. pp. 629, 642, 644. 



? Murfena geometrica, Jldpp. Ail. p. 118, taf. 30. fig. 1. 



Mui-sena flavomargiuata, Hiipp. Atl. p. 119, taf. 30. fig. 3; GuTith. Fish. 



Zanz. p. 127. 

 P Murrena bilineata, Rilpp. N. W. Fisch. p. 84. 

 Muifcua pratbernon, Richards. Voy. Ereh. Sf Terr. Fish. p. 84. 



batuensis, Bleek. Nat. Tyds. Xed. Ind. xii. p. 241. 



javanica, Bleek. I. c. xix. p. 347. 



!- Thyrsoidea grisea, Kaup, Apod. p. 92, fig. 95. 



