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its cleft extending beyond eye. Eye small. Anterior nostrils 

 in tubes on the flattened lower surface of the snout; posterior 

 nostrils rather wide, in the upper lip, looking downward, ante- 

 riorly with a flap. Tongue not free. Teeth pointed, of moderate 

 size, about ten in one series on each side of the maxillaries 

 and mandibles; none on vomer; four on intermaxillary 

 plate, far distant from the maxillary series, situated in the 



Fig. 137. Lcinraims scvticinctus (Lay & Benn.). 



furrow between the nostrils. No scales, lateral line present. 

 Gillopenings lateral, small, vertical slits, separated by a broad 

 interspace. 



Distribution: From Indo-australian Archipelago to Japan 

 and in the Pacific the to Sandwich Islands. 



I. Leiuranus semicinctus (Lay & Benn.). 



Ophisiirus scinicincttis Lay & Bennett, Fishes in Beecliey's Voyage 1839, p. 66. 

 Ophisurus} (Sphagebranchtis'i) vimineus Richardson, Fishes Voy. Sulphur 



1843— 1845, p. 107. 

 Stethopterus vimineus Bleaker Verh. Batav. Gen. XXV. 1852, Muraenoiden p. 24. 

 Leiuranus Lacepedii Blacker, Verh. Bat. Genootsch. XXV. 1852, Muraenoiden, p. 36. 

 Leiuranus colubrinus Kaup, Cat. Apod. fish. 1856, p. 2 (Syn. p.p.). 

 Leiuranus colubrinus Bleaker, Ned. Tijdschr. Diark. IL 1864 — 1865, p. 126. 

 Leiuranus colubrinus Bleaker, Atl. Ichth. IV, 1864, p. 42. 

 Leiuranus colubrinus Kner, Fische Novara-Exp. 1865- — 1867, p. 378. 

 Liuranus semicinctus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIIL 1870, p. 54. 

 ^.Ophichthys cobra de Vis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1884, p. 455. 



