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Cleft of mouth 3.5 times in head, extending far behind eye. 

 Dorsal about thrice lower than body, commencing immediately 

 behind gillopenings; anal somewhat higher than dorsal, ending 

 opposite to end of dorsal. Teeth acute, recurved, uniserial, 

 those on the intermaxillary plate in a V, the point directed 

 forward. Dark above, light below. Length of the single specimen 

 known 425 mm. [Type of the species in the Leiden Museum 

 seen by usj. 



Habitat: Borneo!. 



8. Sphagebranchus lumbricoides Blkr. 



Sphageli)-a/ic/n(s hiDihricoiJcs Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr.Dieik.il. 1864 — 65,1-1.46. — 



Atl, Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 71. 

 Ophichthys timorcnsis Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 86. 

 Ophkhthys timorensis Johnstone, Pearl Oyster Rep. II. Fishes 1904, p. 205. 



Height about 60; head 17, about six times in the trunk; 

 head and trunk a little shorter than tail. Eye 14, more than 

 twice in snout. Snout pointed; cleft of mouth about thrice in 

 length of head, reaching far behind eye. Dorsal and anal very 

 low, almost absent, the dorsal commencing above the gill- 

 openings; the anal begins to be distinct at some distance behind 

 the anus. Teeth pointed, uniserial, those on the intermaxillary 

 plate and on the anterior part of the vomer, biserial. Length 

 about 230 mm. [After Bleeker, Gunther and Johnstone 

 and the damaged type of the species in the British Museum 

 seen by us]. 



Habitat: Timor!. — Ceylon (Cheval Paar). 



9. Sphagebranchus misolensis (Gthr.). 



Ophichthys misolensis Giinther, Ann. Mag, Nat. Hist. X. 1872, p. 425. — 



Brenchley's Cruise of the "Curagao". 1873, p. 430. 

 Dalophis misolensis Jordan & Seale, Bull. Bur. of fish. Washington XXV. (1905) 



1906, p. 194. 



Height 56.5; head 15, 6.6 in trunk; tail as long as head and 

 trunk. Eye small, about 15, above the middle of the cleft of the 

 mouth, which is of moderate width and goes 5.7 times in head. 

 Snout pointed, more than twice as long as the eye, projecting 

 beyond the mouth. Anterior nostrils in a very short tube, 

 posterior on the inner side of the lip, below the front margin 

 of the eye. Dorsal and anal fins low, the former commencing 

 at a very short distance behind the gillopenings, the latter 



