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intermaxillary plate 3 5 stout teeth in a curved series. Gill- 

 openings nearly vertical, separated by an interspace of their 

 own length. Upper half greyish brown, lower half yellow; the 

 pores of the lateral line in a yellow round spot; those of head 

 in smaller spots, forming a transverse band on the vertex. 

 Length nearly 400 mm. 



Habitat: Waigeu (in river Waiho, above mouth in fresh 

 water!). - - Mindora Island, Philippines. 



6. Sphagebranchus macrodon Blkr. 



Sphagebranchus macrodon Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. I. 1863, p. 184. 



All. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 69. 

 Ophichthys macrodon Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 85. Fische d. 



Siidsee Heft IX. 1910, p. 402. 



Height about 35; head 8 ! / 2 or somewhat more, 3 3 1 / 2 times 

 in trunk ; head and trunk equal to or somewhat shorter than 

 tail. Eye about 12 17, less than twice in snout, situated above 

 middle of cleft of mouth. Snout pointed, cleft of mouth one 

 third of length of head or somewhat more. Origin of dorsal 

 shortly behind branchial openings. Dorsal more than thrice 

 lower than body, somewhat lower than anal. Both ending 

 opposite to each other, shortly before end of tail. Teeth acute, 

 recurved, unequal, uniserial, only the 4 on the intermaxillary 

 plate in two series, and stouter, as also the single series of 

 about 8 teeth or less on the vomer. Dark-olivaceous above, 

 light below. Length 500 mm. [After BLEEKER and GUNTHER 

 and a specimen in the Leiden Museum seen by us]. 



Habitat: Borneo; Roti Island. Viti-Levu. 



In sea. 



7. Sphagebranchus tricolor (Kaup). 



Lanmostonia bicolor Kaup, Cat. Apod, fish 1856, p. 24. 



Sphagebranchus bicolor Kaup, Abh. Nat. Verein. Hamburg, IV. 2, 1860, p. 15 



(emendatio). 

 Sphagebranchus bicolor Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. I. 1863, p. 185. Atl. 



Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 69. 



Height about 45; head nearly 12, 4.7 times in trunk; head 

 and trunk somewhat shorter than tail. Eye 16, more than 

 twice in snout. Posterior nostrils a slit in the upper lip, situated 

 below eye, anterior nostrils in a short tube on lower surface 

 of snout. Snout pointed, somewhat convex, much prominent. 



