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Poecilophis variegata Kaup, Cat. Apodal fish 1856, p. 98. 



Echidna variegata Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 80. 



Poecilophis variegata Kner, Fische d. Novara 1865 1867, p. 381. 



Muraena nebulosa Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 130. 



Muraena nebulosa Klunzinger, Verh. Zool. hot. Ges. Wien XXI. 1871, p. 618. 



Muraena nebulosa Day, Fish. India 4. 1878 1888, p. 673. 



Echidna nebulosa Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. fish Comm. XXIII. (1903) 



1905, p. no. 

 Muraena nebulosa Giinther, Fische d. Siidsee, Heft IX. 1910, p. 423. 



Height 16 21; head 9 10, 3.5 to more than 4 in trunk. 

 Tail somewhat shorter than head and trunk. Eye 9.5 12.5, 

 more or less than twice in snout. Snout 5.5 to nearly 6 times 

 in length of head. Cleft of mouth 3 3.5 in head, reaching 

 behind eye. Dorsal beginning before gillopenings, its height 

 about 4 times in height of body. Teeth in the upper jaw uni- 

 serial, small, bluntly conical, in young specimens pointed, 

 recurved and with a short inner series of 3 to 4 teeth. On 

 the intermaxillary plate two large QQ O Q Q 



granular mesial teeth, inside of OQO o 



a hemicircle of 10 12 similar * 5.--A.-S O o? 



but somewhat smaller teeth. On o 



vomer 2 parallel series of about - <? o \ 



6io teeth of different size, o \ g o 



mostly granular; in young speci- O o o o \ o o 



mens each series is anteriorly 



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curved outwards and reaches the Figl Dentition 



border of the upper jaw. Teeth ne bnlosa. a intermaxillary, m maxil- 

 ill the lower jaw of old specimens lary, md mandibulaiy, v vomerine 



in two series, in younger ones teeth - X 5- 



only anteriorly so; those in the inner row larger. Yellowish 

 or whitish with numerous fine vermiculated lines or small 

 spots, and two series of large, reticulated black spots, one 

 series along the back and a lower one along the lower half 

 of the body. They include one or more white spots and may 

 be reduced to star-like figures. A more or less regular series 

 of black bands may connect the large black spots on each side 

 of the lower half of the body. Length about 750 mm. 



Nom. in dig.: BinTr (District Tapah, Island Simalur). 



Habitat: Sumatra (Benkulen, West coast Atjeh); Simalur 

 Island!; Cocos Island; Java (Prigi, Karangbollong, Patjitan 

 and Penandjung Bay on south coast!); Celebes (Menado, Tom- 

 bariri); Muaras reef!; Sanguisiapo, Sulu Islands!; Karakelang 



