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Teeth conical, pointed, uniserial in jaws and vomer, only 

 anteriorly in the mandibles they are irregularly triseriate and 

 stouter, as also those on the intermaxillary plate, which are 

 serially arranged in 6 pairs. Brownish above, yellowish below, 

 point of tail yellowish. Pectorals blackish; anal with a dark 

 margin, dorsal brownish with a lighter base. Length of the 

 single specimen described 940 mm. [Type of the species seen 

 by us in the Leiden Museum]. 

 Habitat: Celebes (Makassar!). 



10. Ophichthys rhytidoderma (Blkr.). 



Ophisurus rutidoderma Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXV. 1852, Muraen. p. 30. 

 Pisoodonophis rutidoderma Kaup, Cat. Apod, fish 1856, p. 18. 

 Ophichthys rtttidoderma Bleaker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 55. 

 Ophichthys rhytidoderma Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 63. 



Height about 46; head about 21.2, about 5.8 in trunk; head 

 and trunk about twice in tail. Eye about 15, about twice in 

 snout, situated in the anterior fourth of the length of the head. 

 Posterior nostrils scarcely in advance of the eye, anterior nostrils 

 in a tube, shorter than the eye. Snout pointed, cleft of mouth 

 nearly 4*/ 2 times in length of head, extending scarcely behind eye. 

 Dorsal lower than anal, about thrice lower than body, com- 

 mencing at a short distance behind the extremity of the pecto- 

 rals. Length of pectorals one third of that of the head. Teeth 

 conical, pointed, fixed, subequal, biserial, except the foremost 

 of the maxillaries; on the intermaxillary plate five or six in 

 two rows. Olivaceous above, lighter below. Length of single 

 specimen known 940 mm. [Type of the species in the British 

 Museum seen by us]. 



Habitat: Java (Batavia!). 



ii. Ophichthys rhytidodermatoides (Blkr.). 



Ophiurus breviceps Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XVIII. 1850, p. 1308 



(nee Richardson). 



Ophisurus rutidodermatoides Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXV. 1852, Muraen. p. 31. 

 Pisoodonophis rutidodermatoides Kaup, Cat. Apod. Fish 1856, p. 18. 

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

 Ophichthys rhytidodermatoides Gunther. Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 62 (p.p.). 



Height 46; head 15, four times in trunk; head and trunk 

 about twice in tail. Eye less than 20, about thrice in snout, 

 situated in the anterior third of the head. Posterior nostrils 



