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the diagnosis he also says that this species is characterized by : 

 "la queue, qui est beaucoup plus longue que le tronc". In his 

 diagnosis however it is clear that the reverse is meant. 



2. Gymnomuraena concolor (Riipp.). 



Uroplerygius concolor Riippell, Neue Wirbellh. Fisclie 1835, p. 83. 

 Gymnomuracfta fusca Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin (1866) 1867, p. 524. 

 Gymuomuraena concolor Guntber, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 134. 

 Gymnomuraena fusca Giinther, Ibid. p. 134. 

 Gymnomuraena concolor Klunzinger, Abb. Zool. botan. Ges. Wien XXI. 1871, 



p. 620. 

 Uropteryghis marmoratns Snyder, Bull. U.S. fisb. Comm. XXII. (1902) 1904, 



p. 521 (nee Lacepede). 

 Uropterygiiis concolor ^oxA'^w & Scale, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus, XXVIll. 1905, p. 772. — 



Bull. Bureau fisheries Washington XXV. (1905) 1906, p. 206. 

 Anarchias allardicci Jordan & Scale, Bull. Bureau fisheries Washington XXV. 



(1905) 1906, p. 205. 

 Muraena allardicei Giinther, Fische der Slidscc, Heft IX. 1910, p. 421 (s. syn.). 

 Gymnomuraena concolor Giinther, Ibid. p. 426. 

 Uropteryghis concolor Kendall & Goldsborough, Mem. Mus. Harvard College 



XXVI. 1911, NO. 7, p. 250. 

 Gymnomuraena concolor Max Weber, Siboga-Expeditie, Fische 1913, p. 63. 

 Anarchias allardicci de Beaufort, Bijdrage Dicrkunde Aflev. 19, 1913, p. loi (s. syn.). 



Height 20 to about 33; head between 7,1 — 8.4, 2.4 to nearly 

 3 in trunk. Head and trunk equal to or shorter than tail, this 

 may be as much as half or more than half length of head '). 

 Eye 10 — 12, situated above about the middle of the cleft of 

 mouth, which goes 2.6 — 3.4 in length of head, is horizontal and 

 shuts completely or nearly so. Snout blunt, rounded, 5.8 to more 

 than 6 times in length of head. Anterior nostrils in a conspi- 

 cuous tube, posterior nostrils with an elevated rim at least in our 



llopenings below middle uf the height. 



[) In our specimens the length of head, trunk and tail are as follows: 

 13-5— 34-5— 50 I 

 13 —35 — 50 I 

 13 —37 — 50 I 

 15-5—38.5- 56 

 16 — 42 — 58 

 15 —42 — 59 



15 —35 — 62 



16 —43 — 77 j 



23 —72 — 95 I 



24 — 70 — loi V gillopcnings in middle of the height. 



23 —63 —112 

 32 —84 —145 



