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pairs. Dark above, lighter below. Length 410 mm. [Type of 

 the species in the British Museum seen by usj. 

 Habitat: Java (Batavia!). 



Note: GUNTHER has united this species with the preceding 

 one. We think it safer to separate them, as they differ in the 

 height and in the dentition, which differences however may 

 be due to difference in age. 



13. Ophichthys macclellandi (Blkr.). 



Ophisiiius Mac Clcllandi Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXV. 1852, Muraen. p. 33. 

 Fisoodo/iophis macclellandi Kaup, Cat. Apod, fish 1856, p. 19. 

 Ophichthys Mac Clellandi Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 57. 

 Ophichthys macclellandi Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 63. 



Height about 41 ; head about 16, a little less than one 

 fourth of the trunk; head and trunk twice in length of tail. 

 Eye about 11, about 2 times in snout, situated in the anterior 

 fourth of the length of the head. Snout pointed; cleft of mouth 

 about 3'/2 times in length of head, extending behind eye. Poste- 

 rior nostrils scarcely before eye, anterior ones in a tube, shorter 

 than eye. Dorsal low, thrice lower than body, commencing 

 opposite to the extremity of the pectorals. Dorsal and anal 

 ending shortly before tip of tail. The length of the pectorals 

 is one third of the length of the head. Teeth pointed, fixed, 

 biserial except the anterior maxillary ones, which are uniserial 

 and those on the vomer, which are arranged in three, and on 

 the middle of the bone in four series. On the intermaxillary 

 plate a group of 5 or 6 teeth arranged in two rows. Olivaceous 

 above, lighter below. Length of the single specimen known 

 580 mm. [Type of the species in the British Museum seen by us]. 



Habitat: Java (Batavia!). 



14. Ophichthys celebicus (Blkr.). 



Ophisurtis celcbicus Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-neerl. I. 1856, Visschen Mcnado p. 70. 



Ophisurus broekmeyeri Bleeker, Ibid. p. 71. 



Ophichthys amboinensis Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. II. 1864 — 1865, p. 45. — 



Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 54. 

 Ophichthys broekmeyeri Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 53. 

 Ophichthys celebicus Bleeker, Ibid. p. 54. 



Ophichthys broekmeyeri Giinthcr, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 61. 

 Ophichthys broekmeyeri Perugia, Ann. Mus. Civic. Gcnova (2) VII. 1889, p. 277. 



Height 33 — 36; head 9 — 9-/5; 2'/3 — 2^\^ in trunk, head and 



