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Miiraeiia polyzoiia Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien XXI. iSyr, p. 617. 

 Echidna 'ritor Vaillant & Sauvage, Revue & Mag. Zool. 1875, p. 287. 

 Muraeria polyzona Day, Fishes of India 4°. 1878 — 1888, p. 673. 

 Echidtia zoiiata Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia 1900, p. 495. 

 Muracna polyzona Steindachner, Abh. Senckenb. nat. Ges. XXV. 1901, p. 457. 

 Echidna zonophaea Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm. XXII. (1902) 



1904, p. 167. 

 Echidna Icihala Jenkins, Ibid. p. 428. 

 E.chidna vincta Jenkins, Ibid. p. 429. 

 Echidna obscura Jenkins, Ibid. p. 430. 

 Echidna psalion Jenkins, Ibid. p. 431. 

 Echidna psalion^ obscura^ zonata^ zonophaea^ Icihala^ Jordan iv; Evermann, Ibid. 



XXIII. (1903) 1905, p. 106 — 109. 

 Echidna tritor Jordan & Snyder, Ibid. XXVI. (1906) 1907, p. 208. 

 Muraena polyzona Gunther, Fische d. Siidsee, Heft IX. 19 10, p. 422. 

 Echidna tritor Kendall & Goldsborough, Mem. Mus. Comp, Zool. Harvard Coll. 



XXVI. 191 1, p. 248. 

 Echidna sanvagei Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia LXIV. 1912, p. 30. 



Height 15 — 18; head 7 — 7.4, 2.2—2.7 i" trunk; head and 

 trunk somewhat longer or shorter than tail. Eye 8 — 10, some- 

 what less than half length of snout. Snout 5.5 — 6 in head; 

 cleft of mouth more or less than thrice in length of head, 

 reaching behind eye. Dorsal q 00 



beginning before gillopenings, q O q i^ ^o 



its height much less than half lo o q^ a, §0 0| 



height of body. Maxillary teeth "o^^ 0° So ol 



conical, in two series, much o^ oq 0° "oO 0% 



smaller than the vomerine teeth. f" o^S^^l °(? ^% 



•o oQ^Q 0° o^ Oq 



On the intermaxillary plate ob- »° ^^ ok " °^ ^^o 



tu.sely conical, when young in ar^'^^ °o Oo? 



an outer series enclosing a mesial QO^ 00 qq 



series of 3 larger teeth, in old ^'^ ^ '^^ 



specimens more molaiiike and Fig. 169. Dentition of £c-/^/<///.z/<./,'^t.//« 



1 ,, fRich.). a intermaxillary, m maxillary, 



in an irregular group; on the ^ \ ,., , ■" ■" 



° ^ ^ . md mandibulary, v vomerine 



vomer stout and granular, in ^^^^j^ sz __ 



young specimens in 2 series, 



increasing later on in number and forming a pear-shaped group 

 reaching much farther than the maxillary teeth and composed 

 posteriorly of about 5 series. Mandibulary teeth in 2 series, 

 increasing in old specimens posteriorly into 3 series, the outer 

 series conspicuously smaller. Mostly dark brown with 24 — 29 

 narrow white rings, produced on fins, or whitish with brown 

 rings according to prevalent colour. The rings may be inter- 

 rupted or may nearly vanish, except on the end of the tail, 



