14 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM. 



Family XXX. MUR.ENESOCID.E. 



Rhechias Jordan. 



72. Rhechias armiger Jordan. 



{Cf. Jordan, Proc. U. S. N. M., LIX, 1921, p. 644, fig. 1.) 

 Off the southwestern coast of Hawaii, the type killed in deep water by a lava- 

 flow from Mauna Loa. 



Family XXXI. NETTASTOMIDJ^. (Sorcerers'). 

 Metopomycter Gilbert. 



73. Metopomycter denticulatus Gilbert. (G., p. 585.) 

 Deep sea, off Kaviai. 



Family XXXH. NEMICHTHYID.E (Snipe-eels). 

 Nematoprora Gilbert. 



74. Nematoprora polygonifera Gilbert. (G., p. 587.) 

 Deep sea, off Bird Island. 



Serrivomer Gill and Ryder. 



75. Serrivomer beani Gill and Ryder. (G., p. 586.) 

 Deep sea. 



Stemonidium Gilbert. 



76. Stemonidium hypomelas Gilbert. (G., p. 586.) 

 Deep sea, off Niihau. 



Family XXXIII. OPHICHTHYID.E (Snake-eels). 

 Sphagebranchus Bloch. 



77. Sphagebranchus flavicaudus Snyder. (J. & E., p. 80; G., p. 588.) 

 Occasionally taken. 



Leiuranus Bleeker. 

 (Stethoplcrus Bleeker has line-priority, but later Leiuranus was jireferred by the 

 author.) 



78. Leiuranus semicinctus (Lay and Bennett). (J. & E., p. 81.) 

 Warm i)arts of the Pacific. Rare about Hawaii. 



MicRODONOPHis Kaup. 



79. Microdonophis fowleri Jordan and Evermann. (J. & E., p. 82.) 

 Rare, but three specimens known. 



