814. - REPORT—1845. ge HWP uo 
possesses also a specimen of Ophisurus hijala, Buch. Ham. Icon. Hardw. Mal. 300, noted as 
having been taken in a salt-water lake. 
Opuisurus? vimineEus, Richardson, Ichth. of Voy. of Sulph. p. 107. pl. 52. 
f. 16-20. 
This Ophiswrus differs much from the blunt-toothed species and resembles the Sphagebran- 
ché in its acute, elongated snout. Another species of an orange colour and slightly speckled 
on the back inhabits the Sooloo archipelago on the north side of Borneo. A drawing of it, 
made by Assistant-Surgeon Arthur Adams of the Samarang, exists in the British Museum. 
Hab. China. Specimen in Sir Edward Belcher’s collection. 
Fam. Murznipa, M‘Clelland. 
Mur2na IsincLeENnA, Richardson, Ichth. Voy. of Sulphur, p. 108. pl. 48. 
f.1. Icon. Reeves, 237; Hardw. Mal. 305. Chinese name, Tsing teen 
chuy, “Blue spotted club” (Birch); Ching teem chuy, ‘ Blue spotted mu- 
rena” (Reeves). Genus, Murena, Thunberg; Gymnothorax, Bloch. 
Cuv. Rég. An. ii. p.351. Div. 1. dentibus uno ordine. 
Hab. Canton. Mr. Reeves has deposited two specimens in the British Museum. 
Mur2NA ? Temm. et Schl. (Murenophis). 
A specimen labelled thus exists in the British Museum. It is 22 inches long, is finely 
mottled and clouded, and has a single row of sharp subulate teeth on the jaws. 
Hab. Japan. 
Mur2@NA VARIEGATA, Temm. et Schl. (Murenophis). 
A Murena, so named by the authors of the ‘ Fauna Japonica,’ exists in the British Museum. 
It much resembles M. thyrsoidea, but differs in its dentition, viz. in having a single row of 
conical, compressed and very acute teeth on each jaw, and two rows of minute ones on the 
roof of the mouth. The specimen is 18 inches long. 
Hab. Japan. 
Mur#na REEVESII, Richardson, Ichth. of Voy. of Sulph. p. 109. pl. 48. f. 2. 
Icon. Reeves, 68; Hardw. 304. Chinese name, Lda chuy, “ Wax club” 
(Birch) ; La chuey, “ Waxen eel” (Reeves). (Div. incerta.) 
Hab. Canton. No specimen. 
Murena tTHuyrsoipEA, Richardson, Ichth. of Voy. of Sulph. p. 111. pl. 49. 
f.1. Icon. Reeves, 220; Hardw. 304. Lower figure. Chinese name, 
Hwa chuy, “Flowery club” (Birch); Ta chuy, “ Flowered chuy” (Reeves). 
Genus, Strophidon, M‘Clelland. 
The British Museum possesses two of Mr. Reeves’s specimens. 
Hab. Canton. 
Ozs. Murena tessellata, Ichth. of Sulph. p. 109. pl. 55. f. 5-8, being part of Sir Edward 
Belcher’s collection, and M. pavonina, ibid. p. 110. pl. 53. f. 1-6, may be inhabitants of the 
Chinese seas, but the place of their capture was not recorded. 
Mur2na cErRtNo-NiGRA, Icon. Reeves, nullo numero, non Hardw. Length 
of drawing 73 inches. Div. incerta. 
This drawing apparently represents a Murena with very low fins. The general colour is 
a light wax-yellow with greenish tints and many blackish spots. A row of larger, round and 
nearly equidistant spots runs along the middle of the body, and on the top of the back and 
margins of the tail the spots assume the form of very short oblique bars. The throat and 
belly are tinged with carmine. Upper jaw obtuse and projecting slightly beyond the lower 
one. Nostrils not represented as tubular. 
Hab. Canton. 
Fam. SPHAGEBRANCHIDA, Miiller. 
MorinGua LuMBRICOIDEA, Richardson, Ichth. of Voy. of Sulph. p. 113. 
pl. 56. f. 7-11. Genus, Moringua, Gray, Zool. Mise. p. 9. 
Hab. China. Specimen in Sir Edward Belcher’s collection 10 inches long. 
