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ously longer. Colour of alcohol specimens yellowish brown. 

 Length 135 mm. [Type of the species in the Zoological Museum 

 of Amsterdam]. 



Habitat: Obi major!; South coast of Timor!. (On reefs 

 and pelagic). 



A female specimen of 103 mm, length was already ripe. 



4. Muraenichthys gymnotus Blkr. 



Muracnichtliys gymnotus Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-neerl. II. 1857, Achtste 



Bijdr. vischfauna Ambon, p. 90. — Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 33. 

 Muraenichthys gymnotus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 53. 

 Muraenichthys gymnottis Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien XXI. 1871, p. 608. 



Height 32 — 44; head 10.5 — 11. Head and trunk somewhat 

 less than tail. Eye 12 — 13, more than twice in snout. Cleft of 

 mouth extending slightly behind eye. Dorsal very low, be- 

 ginning above or even somewhat behind anus. Teeth conical, 

 those of the jaws posteriorly uni-, anteriorly pluriserial. Vome- 

 rine teeth uniserial, about ten; on the intermaxillary plate 6 — 7 

 somewhat larger ones forming a circle or semi-circle. Colour 

 yellowish gray. Length 170 mm. [After Bleeker and KLUN- 

 ZINGER, not seen by us]. 



Habitat: Ambon. — Red Sea'). 



5. Muraenichthys schultzei Blkr. 



Muraenichthys Schultzei Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie XIII. 1857, p. 366. — 



Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 33. 

 Muraenichthys schultzii Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 52. 

 Muraenichthys Schultzei Day, Fish. India 4°. 1878 — 1888, p. 663. 

 Muraenichthys Schultzei Max Weber, Siboga-Expeditie, FMsche 191 3, p. 45- 



Height 20 — 26; head somewhat more than 7; head and trunk 



Fig. 123. Muraenichthys schultzei Blkr. X 4- 



i'/2 times in length of tail. Eye about 12, one and a half times 

 in snout; situated behind middle of cleft of mouth, which 



1) McCuLLOCH (Zool. Results "Endeavour" I. 191 1, p. 21) says: "It is very 

 probable that the specimen from Port Jackson vi^hich Gunther (Challenger 

 Report 1880, p. 30) doubtfully identified as M. gymnotus Blkr., is not that 

 species but is M. australis'\ 



