106 CATAT.OOUE OF FISH. 



blue spots enclosed in black. Dr. Paippell says tliat tlie front, long 

 tooth on the mesial line is a vomerine tooth. He obtained his 

 specimen at Massana. 



Genus 40. APTERICHTHYS, Dameril. 



CfBcilia, Lacepede. 

 Sphagebranchus, Block, Cuv. 



No fins. Snout elongated beyond the mandible. The openings 

 of the gills near to each other, as in Sphaijebranchus. The anterior 

 and posterior nostrils tubular. Body much elongated. Tail slender. 

 Teeth acicular, curved, and uniserial on all the bones. 



185. Aptericiithts c;ecus. 



Apterichthys ctecus, Dumeril, Delaroche, An. dii Miis. t. 13, pi. 21, 



f. 0. 

 Cnecilia Branderiana, Lacep. i., 2, p. 135. 

 Sphagebranchus caecus, Block, Schn., 505. 

 Muraena cseca, Linn. Syst. 420. 



Colour, an uniform brown, with some blackish spots on the head. 

 Anus situated nearer to the tip of the snout than to the end of the 

 tail. 



Ivica. Balearic Islands. 



Genus 41. MORmOUA, Gray. 



Greatly-elongated Mnrcrna with the mandible longer than the 

 snout. Teeth distinct, acute, and recurved. Vomerines uniserial. 

 Dorsal and anal fins commencing behind the anus, then disappear- 

 ing for a space, and recommencing again, and becoming higher than 

 before at the end of the tail, which they surround. 



1 86. MORINGUA KAITABORUA. 



Anguilla (Moringua) raitaborua. Cantor, Nat. Tyd. Batavia, 1853, 



pi. 1. 

 Rataborua Ilamiltoni, Gray, Zool. Misc. 9. 

 Rataborua Ilardwickei, Gray, III. Ind. Zool. 11, f. 2. 

 Mura)na raitaborua, llain. Fish of Ganges, 25-364 (juv.). 

 Murajna raktaborya, ILnn. MSS. drawinys {jttv.), (from this Hard- 



wicke's figure has been copied.) 

 Moringua linearis. Gray, 1. c. t. 11, f. 1. 

 Pterurus maculatus, Snainson, Nat. 11. Fish, ii., 334, f. iii. b. 



