series or at least irregularly biserial. Each mandible with about 

 24 teeth, only anteriorly biserial. Brown or brownish black, 

 with numerous irregular, very small specks, unequal in size, 

 disappearing more or less with age on the anterior part of the 

 body. Length about 600 mm. [Some specimens of BLEEKER'S 

 collection seen by us]. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Priaman, Palembang, Deli, Lower 

 Langkat); Singapore; Banka; Borneo (Bandjermassin, Singka- 

 wang); Ceram. - - Philippines, Bourbon, Andamans, seas and 

 estuaries of Bengal. 



Seas and estuaries, entering fresh water. 



7. Muraena (Gymnothorax) punctatofasciata (Blkr.). 



Muraena catenata Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-neerl. I. 1856, Beschr. vischsoorten 



Ambon p. 66 (nee Richardson). 

 Gymnothorax punctatofasciatus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. I. 1863, p. 167. - 



Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 99. 



Muraena punctatofasciata Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 106. 

 Muraena punctatofasciata Day, Fishes of India 4. 1878 1888, p. 669. 



Height 21 27, head 8.3 9; 2.7 to more than 3 in trunk. 

 Head and trunk about 1.2 in tail. Eye 8 ! / 2 10, situated some- 

 what nearer to end of snout than. to corner of mouth. Snout 

 not very much longer than eye, pointed. Cleft of mouth three 

 times or somewhat more in length of head. The mouth can 

 be shut completely. Dorsal rather low, beginning before gill- 

 openings, which are rather wider than the eye. In the maxil- 

 laries on each side a series of 16 18 rather short pointed 

 equal teeth. In young specimens there is anteriorly an inner 

 row of three long and slender teeth. Intermaxillary plate with 

 a peripheral series of 10 12 teeth and a median row of three 

 long fang-like ones. A single series of 8 n short teeth on 

 the vomer. In the mandibles 16 18 moderately pointed teeth 

 in a single row on each side, those near the symphysis much 

 larger and less regularly arranged. Yellowish brown above, 

 lighter below, back and dorsal with small brown spots. Body 

 with about 30 irregular crossbands, about as broad as the 

 interspaces between them. Some of them encircle the body, 

 others are only incompletely developed. Length more than 

 470 mm. [A specimen of unknown locality in the zoological 

 Museum of Amsterdam examined by us], 



Habitat: Burn; Ambon; Ceram. Zanzibar, British India, 

 Philippines. 



