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75. (3.) Muraena sathete. 



Murjenophis sathete, Ham. Huch. Fish. Ganges, pp. 17, 363. 

 Mtmeua sathete, Day, Fish. India, p. G68 (see synon.). 



Length of head 4| to 5 in the distance between the end of the 

 snout and the vent : tail rather longer (considerably according to 

 McClelland) than the trunk. Eyes small, 2J to 2| diameters from 

 the end of the snout, 2 apart, and midway between the angle of the 

 mouth and the end of the snout. Length of the cleft of the mouth 

 about 3if times in the length of the head ; jaws nearly equal in length 

 anteriorly. Teeth the maxillary, anterior vomerine, and anterior 

 mandibular teeth biserial, the rest uniserial. Colour Head, body, 

 and fins dark greenish olive, becoming of a greenish yellow infe- 

 riorly ; silvery dots along the lateral line. 



Hob. Bay of Bengal, Piuang. 



76. (4.) Muraena punctata. 



Gymnothorax punctatus, Bl. Schn. Syst. Ich. p. 526. 



Muraena punctata, Day, Fish. India, p. 669, pi. clxxiii, fig. 1 (see 



synon.). 

 Calamaia paum, Tel. 



Length of head 3| in the distance between the end of the snout 

 and the vent ; tail rather longer than the trunk. Eyes of moderate 

 size, situated midway between the angle of the mouth and end of 

 the snout ; anterior nasal tubes about half as long as the orbit. 

 Length of cleft of mouth equal to half the length of the head ; the 

 mouth can be completely closed. Gill-opening about twice as large 

 as the orbit. Teeth in a single row, from 18 to 22 on each side 

 of the mandible, the anterior longest. Canines of moderate size. 

 Colour purplish black, with black streaks radiating from the eye ; 

 the whole of the fish covered with pure white spots each having a 

 dark edge, they are largest posteriorly, but nowhere exceed the size 

 of the pupil of the eye. 



Hob. Coromandel coast of India. This fish attains to a large 

 size. Ilussell observed that it was not eaten, and it was considered 

 to be of a poisonous nature, whilst its flesh smelt very rank even 

 when it was just captured. 



77. (5.) Muraena rueppellii. 



Dalophis rupelliae, McClelland, Cal. Journ. Nat. Hist, v, p. 213. 

 Mureena ruppellii, Day, Fish. India, p. 069 (see synon.). 



Length of head 3J- to 3| in the distance between the end of the 

 snout and the vent ; tail about one fifth longer than the trunk. 

 Eyes rather above half the length of the snout, and situated nearly 

 midway between angle of mouth and end of snout ; anterior nasal 

 tubes scarcely half the length of the eye. Snout slightly com- 

 pressed ; extent of cleft of mouth 2|- in the length of the head. 

 Gill-opening about as wide as the eye. Teeth in a single row 

 (the young may have one or two extra teeth forming an inner 

 maxillary row), from 20 to 23 in each ramus of mandible ; canines 



