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giipe both small. The group of bluntish teeth on the nasal bone 

 circular, separated from the triserial vomerine ones, which end far 

 back in a single row. Palatine teeth small, blunt, biscrial, soon 

 terminating in accoi*dance with the small gape. 



Length, 38 in. To anus, 18-75 in. To gill-opening, 3 in. 



The specimen came to the British Museum from the College of 

 Surgeons. Its native country is unknown. 



39. PlSOODONOPHIS LUMBRICOIDES. 



Ophisurus lumbricoides, Blkr. Mur. 33. 



Ophisurus breviceps, Cantor, Mai. Fish, 326, t. 5, f. 4. 



The pretty long pectoral measuring one-third of the length of the 

 head. The dorsal beginning half the length of the head behind 

 the gill-opening. Palatine teeth biserial, numbering 10 in the 

 outer row, and 4 on the inner one. Vomerine teeth, 42, triserial, 18 

 on each of the lateral lines, and 6 shorter ones on the medial line. 

 Mandibular teeth, 23 in the outer row, 16 in the inner one. Colour 

 greenish. [Blkr.) 



Rays: D. 430; A. 286; P. 13. 



Java. Hindostan. 



(S. With round spots. 



40. PlSOODONOPHIS MACULOSUS. 



Murfena maculosa, Cuv. Rcgn. An. ii., p. 351, in notes. 

 Ophisurus ophis, Lacep. 11, pi. 6, f. 2. 



Ophisurus pardalis, Val., Wehh, d Berth. Can. 90, pi. 16, f. 2. 

 Ophisurus maculosus et pardalis, Rich., Ereb. d Terr. p. 102; 



Blkr. Mur. 29. 



Dorsal beginning at the occiput. No labial tags. Body marked 

 with round, brown spots, in three rows, arranged quincuncially. 



Teeth all small, conic, and acute ; eight stand irregularly on the 

 oval disk of the nasal bone ; while the vomerine, palatine, and 

 mandibular ones are biserial. The semicircular pectoral is small 

 and delicate ; but suflBciently visible to the naked eye, and it is 

 supported by 15 rays. [Richardson.) 



As Piichardson rightly conjectures, there is no difference between 

 macidosus and pardalis, as I have ascertained by comparison of spe- 

 cimens bearing the two designations in the Paris Museum. 



Eays: Br. 25; D. 510; A. 318. [Blkr.) 



Madagascar; Lancerota, one of the Canaries, in rocky basins. 

 Banda Neira. [Blkr.) 



41. PlSOODONOPHIS GUTTULATUS, fig. 10. 



Pisoodonophis guttulatus, Kaup. 



Dorsal beginning at the occiput. Many round, white spots on 



