2 CATALOGUE OF FISH. 



under one is unusually short and round. The foremost nostril is 

 situated under the projecting snout, and the hinder one in the lip 

 beneath the eye. The eyes are placed nearer to the corner of the 

 mouth than to the tip of the snout. Tlic nasal teeth are disposed 

 in two incomplete rows. Tlie palatine teeth form a semicircle. 

 Pectoral fins very short, scarcely visible. The tail tipped by a 

 thorn-like point. 



1. LeIUKANUS COLUBniNDS. 



Mursena colubrina, Bodd. apud Pall. Beitr. xi. p. 56, tab. ii. f. 3. 



M. annulata, Thuiili. Spic. Ichth. viii. t. i. f. 1. 



Gyranothorax annulatus, Bl. Schn. p. 527. 



Ophisurus fasciatus, Lae. iv. p. 680. 



Oph. colubrinus et vimineus, Rich., Ereb. <(• Terr. pp. 100 and 106 ; 



Ichth. of Sulph. p. 107, pi. 52, f. 10-20; Report, p. 311. 

 Leiurauus Lacepedii et Stetliopterus vimineus, Bleeker, MurcEnoiden, 



p. 24. 

 Ophisurus multizonus, Cuv. (Paris. Mus.). 



Having from 28 to 33 black cross-bars, which do not embrace the 

 white belly. Head and tail tipped with white. In the Parisimi 

 collection there is a black variety from Java. 



China, Mauritius, Malayan Archipelago. 



b. Vomerine teeth aniserial, suh-hiserial, or hiserial. Palatine and 

 mandibular teeth uniserial. 



Genus 2. CENTRUROPHIS, KauiK 



A transparent, thorn-like, caudal tip. Vomerine teeth standing 

 in a single series, or sometimes partially or wholly biserial. Tlie 

 nasal teeth reaching beyond the under jaw. 



2. Centruhophis spadiceus, fig. 1. 

 Ophisurus spadiceus, Rich., Ereb. d Terr. p. 103; Beport, p. 313. 



A moderately-elongated shape, with an outstretched, more oval 

 head. Eyes situated nearer to the angle of the mouth than to the 

 end of the snout. Pectoral fins as long as the jaws. 



Five or six teeth implanted in the projecting nasal bone, in an 

 arch turned backwards. 17-22 short palatine teeth, bent inwards, 

 and commencing in the vicinity of the first vomerine teeth. 17 vo- 

 merine teeth. 10 mandibular teeth, of which the foremost are the 

 longest. In a specimen in the Lcyden Museum, I noticed the 

 vomerine teeth to be in two irregular rows ; and in another, these 

 teeth to be in two rows at their commencement only. 



In the example, wliose head I have skctclicd, the general tint is 



