28 5 



2. Subgenus Chlevastes Jordan & Snyder. 

 (JORDAN & SNYDER, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XXIII. 1901, p. 867). 

 Dorsal ending one heads length before tip of tail. Anal 



Fig. 130. Myrichthys (Chlevastes) colubrinus (Bodd.). X 2 /3- 

 -\ (- end of anal and dorsal. 



ending two heads length or more before tip of tail. Teeth 

 obtusely conical or granular, in 2 <& 



O " O fi 



series; those of the intermaxillary / c& o 



plate in a group of about 8 teeth, 

 separated from the others by an 

 interspace and situated in a furrow rn ^ 

 between the nostrils. 



Distribution: From Red Sea, Fig ^ Den tition 



the East Coast of Africa, Mauritius colubrinus (Bodd.). a teeth on inter- 

 through the Illdo-australian Archi- maxillary plate, m maxillary, md 

 pelagO to Japan and the West pacific andibulary, * vomerine teeth 



Islands. < 2i/1< 



2. Myrichthys (Chlevastes) colubrinus (Bodd.). 



Muraena colulrina Boddaert in Pallas, Neue Nord. Beitriige II. 1781, p. 56. 

 Muraena annulata Ahl, De Muraena et Ophichtho 1789, p. 6. 

 Miiraena fascia ta Ibid. p. 7. 



