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Habitat: Sumatra (Padang, Priaman); Celebes (Makassar !). 

 Philippines, China; Madagascar. 



In sea, on coralreefs and near shore. 



3. Cirrhimuraena chilopogon (Blkr.). 



Ophisurus cheilopogon Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-neerl. VIII. 1860, 13. Bijdr. 



Celebes p. 59. 



Cirrhinmraena chilopogon Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 42. 

 Ophichthys chilopogon Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 76. 

 Cirrhimuraena cheilopogon Max Weber, Siboga-Expeditie, Fische 1913, p. 51. 



Height about 35; head about 9 2 / 3 ; twice and two thirds in 

 the length of the trunk. Head and trunk is contained once 

 and two-thirds in that of the tail. Eye 16 17 ; more than twice 

 in snout. Cleft of mouth reaching far behind eye, 2.5 in length 

 of head. Origin of dorsal the length of the snout behind gill- 

 openings; dorsal rather high. Pectorals about 2 ! / 2 in head '). 

 Teeth small, acute, forming bands; those of the maxillaries 

 much broader posteriorly than anteriorly; those of the mandibles 

 not much narrower. The band on the vomer broad, not shorter 

 than those of the maxillaries, consisting of 3 to 4 rows of teeth. 

 On the intermaxillary plate a semioval patch of about 20 teeth. 

 Dark above, light below. Length 475 mm. 



Habitat: Celebes (Badjoa); South coast of Timor (pelagic)!. 



Note. We are not sure that this species, of which only 2 

 specimens from Badjoa and a small specimen of 80 mm. from 

 the Siboga Expedition, are known, is not identical with 

 C. chinensis. 



5. Leiuranus Bleeker. 



(BLEEKER, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXV. 1852, Muraenoiden, p. 36). 

 (Stethopterus Bleeker). 



Elongate, cylindrical. Anus in the posterior half of length, less 

 than length of head behind middle of length. Origin of dorsal at a 

 short distance behind gillopenings. Dorsal and anal not con- 

 fluent, the caudal wanting. Pectorals small. Head small; snout 

 pointed, much projecting beyond the mouth, which is small, 



i) In the small specimen of 80 mm. from the Siboga expedition, the only one 

 seen by us, the pectorals goes 4^. 2 in head. 



