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single series of 5 to 10 teeth. Mandibulary teeth posteriorly uni- 

 to triserial, anteriorly stouter and bi- to quadriserial. Yellowish 

 brown, with irregular rounded, more or less confluent black 

 spots. On the head the spots coalesce into more or less complete 

 longitudinal bands, separated by light longitudinal streaks. 

 Length 700 mm. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Priaman, Rindu Lati above Benkulen); 

 Java; Borneo; Palawan; Celebes (Sawatan, Klabat di atas, 

 Menado); Buru; Ambon!; Ceram; Waigeu; North New Guinea 

 (rivers running in Humboldt Bay!). Fidji Islands. 



In fresh water of rivers and in the mouth of rivers. 



6. Muraena (Gymnothorax) tile (Ham. Buch.) [Fig. 176, p. 356]. 



Muraenophis tile Hamilton Buchanan, Fish. Ganges 1822, p. 18, 363. 



Muraena vermiculata Richardson, Voy. Erebus & Terror, Fish. 1844, p. 92. 



Muraena gracilis Richardson, I.e. p. 92. 



Lycodontis literata McClelland, Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 1845, p. 186. 



Lycodontls punctata Me Clelland, Ibid. p. 187. 



Strop hidon literata McClelland, Ibid. p. 203, 215. 



Strop hidon punctata McClelland, Ibid. p. 203, 215. 



Strophidon maculata Me Clelland, Ibid. p. 203. 



Muraena punctata Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXV. 1853, Muraenoid. p. 42. 



Muraena literata Bleeker, 1. c. p. 42. 



Muraena tile Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Gen. XXV. 1853, Ichth. Bengalen, p. 159. 



Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie IX. 1855, p. 427. 

 Thyrsoidea tile Kaup, Cat. Apodal Fish 1856, p. 93. 

 Gymnothorax tile Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 97. 

 Gymnothorax tile Kner, Fische Novara-Exped., 1865 1867, p. 385. 

 Muraena tile Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 112. 

 Muraena tile Day, Fish. India 4. 18781888, p. 668. 



Height 1 6 23; head 7.4 to nearly 8, thrice or somewhat 

 less in trunk. Tail somewhat shorter than or equal to head 

 and trunk. Eye 12 14, half as long or less than snout, situated 

 nearer to angle of mouth than to end of snout, which is prominent. 

 Cleft of mouth, measured from mandibulary symphysis, 3.8 4.2 

 in head. Origin of dorsal slightly before gillopenings, which are 

 about as wide as the eye. Teeth conical. In the maxillaries 

 in an outer series of 14 or more and an inner series of 5 8, 

 these and the last of the outer series are larger. This is still 

 more the case with the single peripheral series of about 12 14 

 on the intermaxillary plate, which may be mingled with a 

 few small ones and enclose a mesial series of 3 still larger 

 teeth. In the vomer 20 or more obtusely conical teeth in 2 



