255 



each side of the median row a lateral row of smaller teeth. 

 Dorsal commencing above gillopenings, its height about half 

 height of body. Pectorals about 3 times in length of head. 

 Colour of alcohol specimens gray, sides silvery, median fins with 

 a broad black margin. Length more than 800 mm. 



Nomen indig. : Putje-Kanipa (Malay. Batavia); Manglong 

 (Upper Riko, East Borneo); Majong (Bagan Api Api). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Telok Betong, Priaman, Bagan Api Api !); 

 Singapore; Bintang; Java (Batavia> Pasuruan); Borneo (Sing- 

 kawang, Kota Baru!; Upper Riko near Balik Papan!, Sandakan, 

 Sarawak); Celebes (Makassar!, Badjoa, North Celebes); Flores!, 

 Waigeu; Aru-Islands! ; South New Guinea. Pinang, Philip- 

 pines, China, Japan, Australia, West Pacific Islands, Indian Ocean, 

 Red Sea, East Coast of Africa. In sea, brackish and fresh water. 



2. Muraenesox talabon (Cantor) [Fig. 103, 105 on p. 253, 256]. 



t (Ophidiuni) Tala Bon Russell, Fishes of Vizagapatam I. 1803, p. 27. 



Conger (Muraena) talabou Cuvier, Regne animal. 2. edit. p. 350 (name only 



after Russell). 



? Muraenesox lanceolata McClelland, Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. IV. 1844^.409. 

 ? Muraenesox exodon McClelland, Ibid. p. 409. 



t Muraenesox serradentata McClelland, Ibid. p. 409 and V. 1845, p. 2IO. 

 ^.Muraenesox exodentata McClelland, Ibid. V. 1845, p. 180 & p. 210. 

 Conger talabon Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XVIII. 1850, p. 1294. 

 Conger talabon Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie III. 1852, p. 78 (p. p.). - 



Ibid. V. 1853, p. 456. Verb. Batav. Genootsch. XXV. 1853, Muraenoiden, p 18. 

 Muraenesox pristis Kaup, Cat. Apodal fish. 1856, p. 116. 

 Muraenesox talabon Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 22. 

 Muraenesox talabon Kner, Novara-Exped., Fische, 1865 1867, p. 372. 

 Muraenesox talabon Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 45. 



Height 17 25 ; head more or less than 6. Anus about in 

 the beginning of the third fifth of the length. Eye 9 II in 

 head and about thrice in snout. Teeth in the upper jaw in 

 three series, the inner one curved and separated by an eden- 

 tulous interspace from the two outer ones, of which the inner 

 one has by far the larger teeth. Teeth in the mandibles in 

 three rows, the outer row separated by an edentulous inter- 

 space from the others, those of the inner row very small, the 

 middle row close set and ending at the symphysis in about 

 5 strong canines; those of the outer row close set behind, but 

 apart, pointed and directed outward in the first half of the jaw. 

 Intermaxillary plate with about 8 canines, followed on the 



