124 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
Genus GYMNOTHORAX Bloch. 
The Tropical Morays. 
Gymnothorax ocellatus Agassiz. 
PLATE Io. 
Head 6%; depth 1524; snout 5 in head; eye 7%; mouth 24%; 
interorbital space 6; head and trunk a trifle less than tail. Body 
deep, well compressed and tapering back from pharynx, which 
is greatest depth. Head compressed, and muzzle a little elongate, 
blunt. Snout convex, a little long. Eye about midway in length 
of mouth, and ellipsoid. Jaws even and along margin of each a 
single series of large knife-like entire backwardly-directed tri- 
angular teeth. In front of mouth about 2 depressible similar 
teeth. Mouth not completely closing, so that some teeth are 
visible. Anterior nostril in a fleshy tube near tip of snout. Pos- 
terior nostril a conspicuous pore over front rim of pupil in 
interorbital space. Interorbital space convex. Gill-opening about 
*/, of horizontal orbital diameter. Along edge of upper jaw 
anteriorly 3 pores on each side, and same on mandible. Several 
longitudinal strize along each side of pharynx, which is also finely 
wrinkled. Dorsal beginning about last fourth in space between 
posterior margin of eye and gill-opening. Confluent fins low, 
and caudal small. Color in alcohol pale brownish, body every- 
where marked by a reticulating pattern leaving small rounded 
pale spots. On tail posteriorly these become large and more 
irregular. Same pattern of coloration extends over basal portion 
of caudal to its margin, which is marked by about 25 elongate 
irregular deep brown blotches with ocellated margins, pale encir- 
cling color sometimes nearly white. Margin of anal uniform deep 
brown. Head uniform pale brownish. Iris slaty. Length 14% 
inches. New Jersey. Capt. Davis. No. 995, Academy of Nat- 
ural Sciences of Philadelphia. 
Known from our coast only by the above example, most likely 
a straggler from tropical America in the Gulf Stream. It agrees 
very well with one from San Domingo however. The Gymno- 
