278 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



671. Lycodontis elaboratus (Poey). 



Cuba. 



Murcena elaborata Poey, Meiuorias, ii, 323, 1860, Cuba. 



672. Lycodontis obscuratus (Poey). 



Cuba. 



dymiiothorax obscuratus Pooy, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., ix, 1870, 320, Cuba. 



673. Lycodontis chlevastes (.Jordan <S: Gilbert). 



(;al.i])aj:;os Islands. 



;Sidera clilcrmtes .Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1883, 208, (jlalapagos 

 Islands. 



Sultsrcnus PHIODONOrmS Kaup. 



I'riodonophis Kaup, Aalenabnliche Fiselio Hamburg' Museum, 22, 1859 

 {ocellutus). 



674. Lycodontis ocellatus (Agassiz). Spotted Moray : Moray Eel. 



I'tmsacfda to Rio Janeiro. 



(iymnothorax ocellatus Agassiz, Spix, I'isc. Brasil., 91, pi. 50&, 1828, Brazil. 



674a. Lycodontis ocellatus saxicola (.Jordan & Davis). 



Snapper Banks ofT Pensaeola and deep water off Cuba. 



(iymnothorax ocellatus saxicola .Jordan & Davis, Apodal Fisbes, 606, 1892, 

 .Sna])per Baiiks oft' Pensaeola, Florida. 



674b. Lycodontis ocellatus nigromarginatus (Girard). 

 Coasts of west Florida and Texas. 



Neomura-na n'ujromariiinata Girard, U. S. and Mox. Bound. Surv., 76, pi. 41, 1859, 

 .St. Josej)!! island, Texas. 



Genus 192. MTJRffiNA (Artedi) Linnaeus. Morays. 



Murana Artedi, in Liuna-us, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 244, 17.58 (helena). 



675. Muraena insularum Jordan & Davis. 



Galapagos Islands. 



Murana insularum Jordan & Davis. Apodal Fislics, 609, 1892, Chatbani Island, 

 Galapagos Islands. 



676. Muraena argus (Steindachner). 



Altata, west coast of Mexico. 



Gymnothorax (Limamura'na) argus Steindachner, Ichth. Notizen, x, 17, pi. iv, 

 1870, Altata, west coast of Mexico. 



677. Muraena retifera Goode & Bean. 



Coast of South Carolina, in rather deep water. 



Murana retifera Goode & Bean, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. 1882, 435, olT Charleston. 



678. Murasna melanotis (Kaup). 



Tropical Atlantic, from Africa to South America. 



IJmaynurwna melanotis Kaup, Aale Hamb, Mus., 27, pi. 4, fig. 3, 1860. 



679. Muraena lentiginosa Jenyns. Morena Pinla. 



Pacific Coast of America from Gulf of California to Galapagos. 



Murwna lentiginosa Jenyns. Voy. Beagle, Zool.. 143, 1842, Galapagos Islands. 



Genus 193. ECHIDNA Forster. 



Echidna For.stcr, ICnchiridion, 31, 1778 (rariegata). 



680. Echidna nocturna (Cope). 



Pacific Coast of Mexico, the two known s])ecimens from Rio (irande, in Costa 



Rica, and from Cape .San J^ucas. 

 Pacilophis noc.turn us Co^e, U. S. Geol. Surv. Mont., 471,1871 (1872), Rio Grande 



at San Jose, ('osta Rica. 



681. Echidna catenata (Block). 



West Indies, from Bermuda to Surinam; our specimens from San Lucia. 

 (lymnothora.i- catcnalus liloch, Xusl. Fische, XII, 74, pi, 415, fig. 1, 1795, Coro- 

 uiandel ; an error. 



