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of pectorals. Dorsal and anal ending near point of tail. Pectorals 

 2 */2 to 3 * n l en gth f head. Teeth pointed, conical, in the 

 jaws in a single series, but they may form anteriorly or near 

 the middle an irregular double series. Vomerine teeth stouter 

 and in a double series, the posterior uniserial, On the inter- 

 maxillary plate 5 stout teeth form a V, the point directed 

 forward. Uniform brown, lighter beneath, dorsal and anal black 

 or with a black margin. Length 430 mm. 



Nomen indig: Banko (Malay. Batavia). 



Habitat: Singapore; Sumatra (Priaman, Benkulen); Nias!; 

 Java (Batavia!, Surabaya!); Madura!, Celebes (Makassar). - 

 Philippines, China, Madagascar. 



In sea. 



5. Ophichthys singapurensis Blkr. 



Ophichthys singapurensis Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 52. 

 Ophichthys singapurensis Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 71. 



Height about 37; head about 13, nearly four times in trunk; 

 head and trunk 2 / 3 of the length of the tail. Eye about 10, 

 about one half of the length of the snout. Posterior nostrils in 

 advance of the eye, anterior nostrils in a tube, much shorter 

 than eye. Snout very acute and prominent, cleft of mouth 

 about 3 3 / 5 in the length of the head, reaching below hindmargin 

 of eye. Dorsal twice lower than height of body, commencing 

 above the end of the pectorals, ending above end of anal at a 

 short distance from point of tail. Pectorals nearly one-third of 

 the length of the head. Teeth conical, acute, curved, subequal, 

 uniserial in the jaws, on vomer anteriorly in a triple, poste- 

 riorly in a double series; on intermaxillary plate 9 teeth in a 

 double series. Olivaceous above, yellowish below. Length of 

 single specimen known 535 mm. [Type of the species in the 

 British Museum seen by us]. 



Habitat: Singapore! 



6. Ophichthys macrochir (Blkr.). 



Ophisurus macrochir Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXV. 1852, Muraenoid. p. 26. 

 Centrurophis macrochir Kaup, Cat. Apodal Fish 1856, p. 5. 

 Ophichthys macrochir Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 55. 

 Ophichthys macrochir Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 72. 



Height 42 48; head 14.5 17.7, about one fourth of the 

 trunk; head and trunk twice or less than twice in tail. Eye 

 ii 13; twice or somewhat more in snout, situated in the 



