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inner row of 3 — 6 longer ones, which are wanting in old speci- 

 mens. Intermaxillary plate with a peripheral series of 12 — 20 

 teeth, most of them very long canines, and with a mesial 

 series of 3 — 4 canines. Vomer with about 10 conical teeth in 

 one series. Mandibles with a row of 35 — 40 rather small teeth, 

 near the symphysis however some of them are large canines; 



Fig. 184. Muraciia {Gymnothorax') schisiiiatorliyncliits Blkr. 

 (After the type of Kaup). 



in young specimens there is near the symphysis an inner row 

 of 2 or 3 canines. Grayish brown, lighter below, fins with a 

 diffuse submarginal dark band and a white margin. Length 

 more than 800 mm. [Specimens quoted by Bleeker from the 

 Leiden Museum and the type of Kaup seen by us]. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Benkulen); Java!; Timor!. — Samoa Islands. 



. - ■- ", /— -■' •" 

 4. Muraena (Gymnothorax) meleagris Shaw. 



Muraeiia nicleagiis Sha\v,^Natur. Miscall. 1809, pi. 220, 



Muraena iiwleagris Richardson, Voy. Erebus & Teri-or, Fish. 1844, p. 93. 



Miiracua gr'iseo-badia Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie, VIII. 1855, p. 325 



[nee Richardson]. 

 Muraena Duivenbodei Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie, X, 1856, p. 385. 

 Thyrsoidea chlorostigma Kaup, Cat. Apod, fish 1856, p. 89. 

 Thyrsoidea meleagris Kaup, Ibid. y. 91. 



Muraena buroensis Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie XIII. 1857, p. 79. 

 Muraena chlorostigma Bleeker, Ibid. XV. 1858, p. 160. 



Thyrsoidea eurostd Abbott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia 1S60, p. 47S. 

 Gymnothorax Duivenbodei Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 89. 

 Gymnothorax buroensis Bleeker, Ibid. p. 90. 

 Gymnothorax chlorostigma Bleeker, Ibid. p. 97. 

 Gymnothorax griseo-badius Bleeker, Ibid. p. 105 [ncc Richardson]. 

 Muraena meleagris Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 1 00. 

 Muraena buroensis Giinther, Ibid. p. 114. 

 Muraena dttivenbodii Giinther, Ibid. p. 114. 

 Muraena meleagris Day, Fish. India 4°. 1878 — 1888, p. 668. 

 Muraena afra Max Weber, In Semon Zoolog. Forschuogsreiscn V. 1895. P- ^75 



[nee Bloch, nee Giinther]. 

 Lycodontis euros ta Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia 1900, p. 494. 

 Lycodontis parvibranchialis Fowler, Ibid. p. 494. 

 Muraena laysana Steindachner, Uenkschr. Akad. Wien LXX. 1900, p. 515. 



