3 io 



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

 than eye. Snout pointed; cleft of mouth 3 ] / 2 times in length 



of head, extending far behind 

 eye. Dorsal low, more than 

 ,o !% twice lower than height, com- 



/f l\ mencing nearly opposite to 

 o\ /f *s\ the extremity of the pectorals. 



"^ /i Vs Dorsal and anal ending not 



o\ // o| far from point of tail. Length 



\ n oi * ^ P ectora ^ s three times in 

 | length of head. Teeth pointed, 



Fig. 147. Dentition of Ophichthys rhyti- fixed > a11 biserial **<*& the 

 dodermatoides (Blkr.). a teeth of inter- foremost of the maxillaries 

 maxillary plate, m maxillary, *w</mandibu- and the hindermost of the 



lary, v vomerine teeth. X 3V 2 - vomer, which are uniserial; 

 on the intermaxillary plate a series of 2 pairs '). Olivaceous 

 above, lighter below. Length 682 mm. [Type of the species 

 in the British Museum seen by us]. 



Habitat: Java (Batavia!). Pinang; Ceylon (after Karoli). 



12. Ophichthys lumbricoides (Blkr.). 



Ophisurus lumbricoides Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXV. 1852, Muraen. p. 32. 

 Pisoodonophis lumbricoides Kaup, Cat. Apod. Fish 1856, p. 21. 

 Ophichthys lumbricoides Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 56. 



Height 68.8; head 16.5, 4.2 times in trunk; head and trunk 

 about twice in tail. Eye minute, about twice in snout, situated 

 in the anterior third of head. Posterior nostrils scarcely in 

 advance of the eye, anterior nostrils in a tube, shorter than eye. 

 Snout pointed; cleft of mouth three times in length of head, 

 extending far behind eye. Dorsal low, more than half height 

 of body, commencing nearly opposite to the extremity of the 

 pectorals. Dorsal and anal ending not far from point of tail. 

 Length of pectorals about three times in length of head. Teeth 

 pointed, fixed; those of the mandibles in two series, in the 

 maxillaries an outer complete series, at the inner side of the 

 middle of which is a short inner series; on the vomer a double 

 series of equal teeth; those on the intermaxillary plate in two 



i) We agree with GUNTHER, that BLEEKER'S figure (Plate Muraenid. XVI 

 figure i) of the dentition of Ophichthys rhytidodermatoides is totally erroneous. 



