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Hub. Red Sea and east coast of Africa, through the seas of India 

 to the Malay Archipelago and the Pacific. This species attains a 

 large size. 



90. (18.) MnraBna nebulosa. (Fig. 33.) 



Murnena ne.bulosa, AM, De Mur. et Ophich. p. 5, t. i, fig. 2; Day, 

 Fish. India, p. 073, pi. clxxii, fig. 2 (see synon.). 



Sattlinga Pain, Tel. 



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

 snout and the vent ; tail a little shorter than the trunk. Eyes 

 nearly 2 diameters from end of snout and situated midway between 

 it and cleft of mouth, which last equals about one third of the 

 length of the head. Gill-opening rather smaller than the eye. 

 Teeth most of the teeth obtuse or molariform. Fins vertical 

 ones rather well developed and commencing a little in front of gill- 

 opening. Colour brownish or olive, darkest along the back. A 



, Fig. 33. Mur&na nebulosa aiid upper teeth. 



row of from 20 to 25 black blotches along the upper surface of the 

 head and back extending on to the dorsal fin, and nearly as wide 

 as the ground-colour ; there are some white spots in the centre of 

 each. A similar row of blotches along the abdominal surface. 

 Intermediate ground-colour of fish covered with small black stars, 

 spots, or vermiculated lines. Vertebra? 65/57. 



Hob. Eed Sea, Madagascar, Bourbon, Seychelles Archipelago, 

 through the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is said to attain 5 feet 

 in length. 



91. (19.) Murana polyzona. 



Muraena polyzona, Richardson, Voy, Sulphur, Ich. p. 112, pi. Iv, 

 figs. 11-14; Day, Fish. India, p. 673, pi. clxix, fig. 5 (erroneously 

 marked M. schultzei) (see synon.). 



Budlde pdm, Tarn. 



Length of head one fourth of the distance between the end of 

 the snout and the vent; tail about one third longer than body. 

 Eyes of moderate size, placed about midway between angle of 

 mouth and end of the snout. Length of cleft of mouth 3| in the 

 length of the head. Gill-opening small, scarcely so large as the eye. 

 Teeth with rounded crowns, their form changing considerably with 



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