24. mur.¥;na. 127 



moderate lenp-th ; eye small. Cleft of the moutli of moderate widtli. 

 Tail rather louger than the body ; the length of the head is ahoKt two- 

 sevenths of that of the trunJc. Upper parts dark coloured, the lower 

 lighter. 



Bay of Bengal ; Pinang. 



a. Thirty-two and a haK inches long : stuffed. 



2. Snout slender J much elongate. 



Gl. Muraena schismatorhynchus. 



Murfena schismatorhynclius, Blcclc. Nat. Ti/ds. Ned. Ind. iv. p. .'^Ol ; 



or Terh. Bat. Gen. xxv. Miir. p. 71. 

 congeroides, Bleek. Act. Soc. Sc. Ind.-Neei'l. viii. Sumatra., \\\\. 



p. 87. 

 Eurymyctera crudelis," Kaup, Apod. p. 72, tab. 11. fig. 5G (hcatl, 



bad). 

 Gymnothorax crudelis, Bleek. Ned. Tyds. Dierk. i. p. 1G8. 

 schisinatorliyncliu3, Bleek. Atl. lehth. Mur. p. lOG, pi. 40. fig. 1 . 



Snout narrow, much elonc/ate, more than twice the diameter of the 

 eye, which is large. Cleft of the mouth veri/ ivnle, half as long as 

 the head. Teeth uniserial in adult examples ; mandible with about 

 ZQ teeth on each side; cnnines large; the mouth cannot be shut 

 completelJ^ Gill-opening at least as wide as the eye. Toil rathei" 

 shorter than the body ; the length of the head is contained twice 

 and one-third in that of the trunk. Uniform brown ; fius with 

 a white margin. 



L^ast- Indian archipelago. 



a. Type of 31. schismatorhynchus. Sumatra. From Dr. Blceker's 



Collection. 



b. Type of 31. conr/eroides. Sumatra. From Dr. Bleeker's Col- 



lection. 



62, Muraena acutirostris. 

 Abbott, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. PhU<ul. ISCiO, p. 476. 



Head much compressed ; ja^vs greatly attenuated, very slender. 

 Teeth uniserial, compressed and very acute ; canines long; tlie an- 

 terior tooth of the vomerine series much larger than the succeeding ; 

 mandible with 26 teeth on each side. Eye large. Dark brown, 

 irregularly reticulated with narro\s' bands of white. Tail longer 

 than the body ; the length of the head is contained twice and one- 

 third in that of the trunk. (Abbott.) 



Sandwich Islands. 



^. Ercccdinyly elonr/ate, the tail beiuy ticicc as lony as the bodij. 



63. Mursena macrurus. 

 Mm'Rina macrurus, Bleek. Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind. vii. p. 324. 

 Thyrsoidea lougissima, Kaiip, Apod. p. 82. 



— ^macrurus, Ji/a-k. Atl. Ichth. Mur. p. Ill, pi. 22. lig. 2; Kiwr, 

 Novara, Fisclt. p. .'?8t). 



Exceedingly elongate, the fail bdng twice ((ft long an the Ixidl/. The 



