278 BEPOKT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



671. Lycodontis elaboratus (Poey). 



Cuba. 



Mitrana elaborata Poey, Memorias, ii, 323, 1860, Cuba. 



672. Lycodontis obscuratus (Poey). 



Cuba. 



(iymnothorax obscuratus Poey, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., ix, 1870, 320, Cuba. 



673. Lycodantis chlevastes (.Jordan &. Gilbert). 



Galapagos Islands. 



Sidera chlevastes Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1883, 208, Galapagos 

 Islands. 



Subgenus PRIODONOPHIS Kanp. 



Priodonophis Kaup, Aalenahnliche Fiscbe Hamburg Museum, 22, 1859 

 {ocellaiiis}. 



674. Lycodontis ocellatus (A.gassiz). Spotted Moray ; Moray Eel. 



Pensacola to Rio Janeiro. 



(iymnothorax ocellatus Agassiz, Spix, Pise. Brasil., 91, pi. 506, 1828, Brazil. 



674a. Lycodontis ocellatus saxioola (Jordan & Davis). 



Snapper Banks off Pensacola and deep water off Cuba. 



Gymnolhorax ocellatus saxicola Jordan & Davis, Aj^odal Fishes, 606, 1892, 

 Snapper Banks off Pensacola, Florida. 



674b. Lycodontis ocellatus nigromarginatus (Girard). 

 Coasts of -west Florida and Texas. 



Neomunvna )iifiromarfiinata Girard, U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., 76, pi. 41, 1859, 

 St. Joseph Island, Texas. 



Genus 192. MURffiNA (Artedi) Linnaeus. Morays. 



Murwna Artedi, in LinuiBus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 244, 1758 (helena). 



675. Mureena insularum Jordan & Davis. 



Galapagos Islands. 



Mura'na insularum Jordan & Davis, Apodal Fishes, 609, 1892, Chatham Island, 

 Galapagos Islands. 



676. Muraena argus (Steindachner). 



Altata, west coast of Mexico. 



Gymnothorax {Limamurwna) argus Steindachner, Ichth. Notizen, x, 17, pi. iv, 

 1870, Altata, west coast of Mexico. 



677. Muraena retifera Goode & Bean. 



Coast of South Carolina, in rather deep water. 



Murwna retifera Goode & Bean, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 435, off Charleston. 



67S. Muicena melanotis (Kaup). 



Tropical Atlantic, from Africa to South America. 



Limamurwna melanotis Kaup, Aale Hamb. Mus., 27, pi. 4, fig. 3, 1860. 



679. Muraena lentiginosa Jenyns. Morena Pinta. 



Pacific Coast of America from Gulf of California to Galapagos. 



Murana lentiginosa Jenyns, Voy. Beagle, Zool., 143, 1842, Galapagos Islands. 



Genus 193. ECHIDNA Forster. 



Echidna Forster, Enchiridion, 31, 1778 {variegata). 



680. Echidna nocturna (Cope). 



Pacific Coast of Mexico, the two known specimens from Rio Grande, in Costa 



Rica, and from Cape San Lucas. 

 Pcecilophis nocturnus Cope, U. S. Geol. Surv. Mont., 474,1871 (1872), Rio Grande 



at San Jose, Costa Rica. 



681. Echidna catenata (Bloch). 



West Indies, from Bermuda to Surinam; our specimens from San Lucia. 

 Gymnothorax rafenatus nioch, Ans\. Fische, Xli, 74, pi. 415, fig. 1, 1795, Coro- 

 mandel; an error. 



