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in a tube about equal to length of eye. Snout acute, convex; 

 cleft of mouth reaching behind eye, 4 ] / 2 times in length of 

 head. Dorsal commencing behind gillopenings at a distance more 

 than half length of head. Dorsal and anal very low, ending 

 at a short distance from end of tail. Pectorals rounded, 5 times 

 in length of head. Teeth conical and granular, forming bands 

 of 3 4 series, the maxillary band is in the middle, the man- 

 dibulary band anteriorly broadest. The teeth on the maxillary 

 plate and on vomer are contiguous; the firstnamed and the 

 anterior mandibulary teeth are the stoutest. Brownish above, 

 lighter below. Length of the single specimen known 545 mm. 

 [Description made after the type of BLEEKER, preserved in 

 the Leiden Museum]. 



Habitat: Celebes (Makassar!), in sea. 



4. Pisoodonophis hoeveni (Blkr.). 



Ophisurus Hoevenii Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie V. 1853, p. 172. 



Verb. Batav. Gen. XXV. 1852, Muraenoid. p. 67. 

 Pisoodonophis Hoeveni Kaup, Cat. Apod, fish 1856, p. 20. 

 Pisoodonophis Hoevenii Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 59. 

 Ophichthys hoevenii Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 79. 



Height about 26; head about 7 ! / 2 , 2 2 / 3 times in trunk; head 

 and trunk nearly equal to tail. Eye about 14, two-fifths of 

 the length of the snout. Snout acutely pointed ; cleft of mouth 

 reaching behind eye, some- * 



what less than one-third of the 



length of the head. Dorsal ^l\ 0o . 'v 



commencing above the middle $/?$?<& s \s- 



of the pectorals. Dorsal and anal :?/ | \ ; &, j 



well developed, about twice jjjf || % & ^^ ,% 



lower than body, ending very ? $& X*. 



near tip of tail. Pectorals about "'^ o ^ 



3*/ 2 times in head. Teeth i\ v ' 



granular, forming rather narrow Fig . I42 . Dentition of Pisoodonophis 



bands of 3 series ; the VOme- hoeveni (Blkr.) a teeth on intermaxillary 

 rine band the longest. On the P late i m maxillary, md mandibulary, 



intermaxillary plate are about v vomerine teeth " X 3 " 



7 stouter teeth, forming an oval group, nearly reaching the 

 band of vomerine teeth. Greenish above, yellowish below. Length 

 of the single specimen known 316 mm. [Type of the species 

 in the British Museum seen by us]. 

 Habitat: Celebes (Makassar!), in sea. 



