303 



2. Vomerine teeth in 3, on the middle of 

 the bone in 4 series. Head nearly 



4 times in trunk O. macclellandi p. 311 



b. Head and body i*/ 3 times in tail. Head 



2'/ 3 to 2 3 / 4 times in trunk 0. celebicus p. 311. 



B. Mandibulary teeth in a single series as also 

 the vomerine teeth. Head and body slightly 

 shorter than tail O. versicolor p. 312. 



I. Ophichthys bonaparti (Kaup). 



Foecilocephalus Bonaparti Kaup, Arch. f. Naturgesch. XXII. 1856, p. 43. 



Cat. Apodal fish 1856, p. 5. 

 Ophisurus chrysospilos Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-neerl. II. 1857, Achtste Bijdr. 



Vischfauna Ambon p. 8, 27, 88 (name only). 

 Opkisurus Bonapartei Bleeker, 1. c. p. 88. 



Poecilocephalus Markworti Kaup, Aale des Hamburger Mus. 1859, p. 10. 

 Ophichthys Bonapartei Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 47. 

 Ophichthys bonapartii Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 69. 



Height 33 37; head 12 13, 6 ! / 2 7 times in trunk. Anus 

 in posterior part of third fifth of length. Eye 8 9, rather 

 more than half the length of the snout, situated in the anterior 

 fourth of the length of the head. Cleft of mouth rather wide, 

 two-fifths of the length of the head. Jaws nearly equal. Origin 

 of dorsal above or slightly behind extremity of the pectorals. 

 End of dorsal and anal at a short distance from end of tail. 

 Pectorals small, shorter than snout, about 7 times in length 

 of head. Teeth conical, pointed, curved, subequal, uniserial in 

 all the bones; on the intermaxillary plate in an oval group. 

 Light brownish, with from 1 8 to 23 dark brown rings, extending 

 on the basal part of the dorsal and anal; anterior half of head 

 brown, with yellowish, black-edged reticulated lines, throat 

 with reniform, brown, dark-edged spots. Margin of dorsal with 

 irregularly placed dark spots. Length 750 mm. [After BLEEKER 

 and GUNTHER, and a specimen in the Leiden Museum seen 

 by us]. 



Habitat: Ambon!. -- Mauritius. 



2. Ophichthys cephalozona (Blkr.) [Fig. 143, p. 301]. 



Centrtirophis spadiceus Kaup, Cat. Apod, fish 1856, p. 2 (p.p. et nee Richardson). 

 Muraenopsis marginatus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. I. 1863, p. 179 (nee 



Ophichthys marginatus Peters). 



Ophichthys cephalozona Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 49. 

 Ophichthys cephalozona Kner, Novara-Exped. Fische 1865 1867, p. 377. 



