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length of head. Anterior nostrils in a short tube; posterior nostrils 

 with an elevated rim. Gillopenings about as wide as the eye, 

 situated below middle of height. Maxillary and mandibulary 

 teeth in 2 series,, an outer series of numerous sessile, com- 

 pressed, smaller teeth, close together, and an inner scries of 

 less numerous but much longer teeth, which are depressible. 

 The outer maxillary series is continued on the intermaxillary 

 plate but the anterior of these teeth are somewhat smaller 

 and enclose numerous irregularly placed depressible teeth, which 

 are longer. Vomer with a short single series of rather long, 

 pointed teeth. Lighter or darker brown, mottled with yellowish 

 or with light points. Length 325 mm. 



Habitat: Muaras Reef, east coast of Borneo!; Karakelang- 

 Islands!; Ambon. — Marquesas Islands; Samoa, 



4. Gymnomuraena marmorata Lac. [Fig. 193, 194, p. 392, 393J. 



Gyiiu/oi/nnnt'/ta marmorata Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poissons V. 1803, p. 648. 

 Ichtliyophis paiillieriims Lesson, Voyage Coquille Zool. II. 1830, p. 131. 

 Muracna micropterus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Tndie II f. 1852, p. 298. — 



Verb. Bat. Gen. XXV. 1853, Muraenoiden p. 50. 

 Mtiraeno-hUnna tigrina Kaup, Cat. Apodal Fish 1856, p. 98 (pro parte). 

 Uroptcrygius xanthoptcrus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie XIX. 1859, p. 350. 

 Uropterygius micropterus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. I. 1863, p. 160. 

 Ichthyophis micropterus Bleeker, Ibid. p. 252. 



Ichthyophis pantherinus Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Amsterdam XV. 1863, p. 464. 

 Gymnomuraena pantherina Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1S64, p. 113. 

 Gymnomuraena xantJiopterus Bleeker, Ibid. p. 114. 

 Gymnomuraena micropterus Bleeker, Ibid. p. 114. 



Gymnomuraena microptera Kner, Fische Novara-Exp. 1865 — 1867. p. 388. 

 Gymnomuraena xanthoptera Kner, Ibid. p. 388. 



Gymnomuraena marmorata Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1S70, p. 133 (p. p.). 

 Gymnomuraena marmorata Day, Fishes of India 4*^. 1878 — ^1888, p. 675. 

 Uropterygius marmoratus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm. XXIII. 



(1903) 1905, p. III. 

 Gymnomuraena marmorata Giinther, Fische der Siidsee, Heft IX. 1910, p. 425. 

 Uropterygius pantherimis Kendall & Goldsborough, Mem. Mus. Harvard Coll. 



XXVI. N^ 7, 191 1, p. 248. 

 Uropterygius marmoratus Kendall & Goldsborough, Ibid. p. 250. 

 Gymnomuraena marmorata Max Weber, Siboga-Exp. Fische 19 13, p. 62. 



Height 19 — 26; head less than 9 to about ii; 3 — 4 times 

 in trunk. Head and trunk t.2 or somewhat more in tail; tail 

 in small specimens more than half length of head, in larger 

 specimens the length of head or even more, longer than head 

 and trunk. Eye 10 — 18, situated above about the middle of 



