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vomer by a row of about 12 strong conical canines, the poste- 

 rior of which may have an 

 indication of basal lobes. At 

 each side of this median row a 

 row of small compressed teeth. 

 Dorsal beginning a little before 

 the gillopenings, its height less 

 than half height of body. Pec- 

 torals about thrice in head. 

 Colour of preserved specimens 

 grayish brown above, white 

 below, fins light, the vertical 

 ones with a black border. Length 

 1500 mm. 



Nom. in dig. : Putje-kanipa 

 (Malay. Batavia); Remang (Java- 

 nese);Tilan Laut (Bagan Api Api). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Bagan Fi S- I0 5- Dentition of Muraemsox 



Api Api!); Nias; Singapore; Java talab ( Cantor > a intermaxillary, m 

 /n * ' T> i r* o maxillary, md mandibulary, v vomerine 



(Batavia, legal, Samarang, Sura- . ., . ' ,., , . ., .., 



teeth; the mandibulary teeth with an 



baya, Pasuruan); Madura; Borneo outer ser i e s of horizontal ones. X ^k- 

 (Pamangkat,Balik Papan!); Cele- 

 bes (Makassar). Malacca, Andamans, British India, Cochin 

 and China. 



3. Muraenesox talabonoi'des (Blkr.). 



Conger talabono'ides Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXV. 1853, Muraenoiden, p. 20. 

 Muraenesox talabonoides Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 23. 

 Muraenesox talabonoides Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 46. 

 Muraenesox telabonoides Day, Fishes of India 4. 1878 1888, p. 662. 



Height about 20. Head about 6. Anus about in the beginning 

 of the third fifth of the body. Eye 10, 3.5 in snout. Maxillary 

 teeth in three rows, the inner one curved and irregular, sepa- 

 rated by an edentulous interspace from the two other rows, 

 the inner of which has by far the longer teeth. Teeth in the 

 mandibles in four rows: an inner row of very small ones 

 followed by a second row of longer pointed ones ; this row is 

 bordered at the outer side by a third shorter irregular row of 

 small teeth; an outermost row consists of long pointed distant 

 teeth, directed outwards. At the symphysis the second row 

 ends in a strong canine, round which the fourth row is conti- 



