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Islands (Beo!); Sula Besi!; Bum; Ambon!; Ceram; Goram; 

 Ternate; Waigeu (Saonek!); New Guinea; Schouten Island 

 (Mysore); Aru (Dobo!); Timor; Island Samau!; Solor; Flores!; 

 Sumba (North! and South coast!). — From Red Sea, East 

 coast of Africa, Madagascar to Australia, Pacific Isl ids, Philip- 

 pines and China. 



On reefs and near shore. 



5. Echidna rhodochilus Blkr. 



Echidna rhodochilus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. I. 1863, p. 247. — Atl. 



Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 79. 

 Muraena rhodochilus Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 132. 

 Echidna rhodochilus Max Weber, Siboga-Exped. Fische 19 1 3, p. 61. 



Height 18 — 19; head 8 — 10, 3 — 3.6 in trunk. Head and trunk 

 equal to or somewhat shorter than tail. P2ye 8 — 10, shorter 

 than snout. Snout about 6.5 in length of head. Cleft of mouth 

 more than 3 to 3.5 in length of head, reaching far behind eye. 

 Origin of dorsal above or slightly behind gillopenings, fleshy, 

 its height about thrice the height of the body. Teeth obtusely 

 conical, in the maxillaries in 2 series, the outer with about 

 14, the inner with 8 — 10 teeth, in the lower jaw posteriorly 

 a series of about 10 — 12 teeth, anteriorly two series of 5 — 7 

 pairs of teeth, the inner of which are stouter. On the vomer 

 one regular series or two incomplete or complete irregular 

 series of stronger teeth; on the intermaxillary plate a broad, 

 nearly oval group of teeth, in the outer series much smaller 

 than the 11 — 13 much stouter inner ones. Spirit specimens 

 dark reddish brown (after Bleeker finely marbled with darker), 

 a white spot on upper and lower lip near corner of mouth. 

 Length 338 mm. 



Nom. indig. : Utoi (Island Simalur, district Tapah). 



Habitat: Island Simalur (Sinabang Bay!, Lugu!); Buru; Rotti; 

 Karakelang Island (Beo)!. 



6. Echidna delicatula (Kaup). 



Poecilophis delicalulus Kaup, Cat. Apod, fish 1856, p. 102. 



Echidna delicatula Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 78. 



Muraena amhlyodon Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 132 (p. p.)- 



Echidna Kishinouyei ]oxAzx\. & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXIII. 1901, p. 8S5. 



Echidna delicatula Jordan & Seale, Ibid. XXVIII. 1905, p. 772. — Bull. Bureau 



fisheries XXV. (1905) 1906, p. 204. 

 Muraena amhlyodon Giinther, Fische d. Siidsee, I left IX. 19 10, p. 424. 



