3/6 



2 anterior small, the 2 or 3 following stouter than the rest. 

 On intermaxillary plate a peripheral series of about 8 teeth, 

 caniniform and much stronger than the maxillary ones, mixed 

 with a few small ones, enclosing 2 stout mesial teeth. About 

 9 conical teeth on vomer. In each lower jaw about 15 teeth, 

 the anterior much stronger and caniniform. The caniniform 

 teeth are depressible. Brown, with round or oval black spots, 

 generally larger than the eye, and longitudinally arranged. Spots 

 on head much the smallest. Fins with or without a narrow 

 white edge. Length 1000 mm. [The type of the species in 

 the British Museum seen by us]. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Siboga); Buru. - Darnley Island; For- 

 mosa; Pescadores Islands. 



12. Muraena (Gymnothorax) undulata (Lac.). 



? Mnraenophis stellata Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poissons V. 1803, p. 629 & 644. 

 Muraenophis undulata Lacepede, 1. c. p. 629 & 644. 

 Muraena fimbriata Bennett, Proc. Comm. Zool. Soc. i. 1831, p. 168. 

 Muraena Valenciennii Eydoux & Souleyet, Voyage autour du Monde sur la 



Bonite, Zoologie, 1841, p. 207. 



Muraena bullata Richardson, Zool. Voyage Erebus Terror, 1844, p. 86. 

 Muraena cancellata Richardson, Ibid. p. 87. 



Muraena isingleeno'ides Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen. XXV. 1853, Muraenoid. p. 48. 

 ? Muraena Blochii Bleeker, Ibid. p. 49. 



Muraena Agassizi Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie VIII. 1855, p. 458. 

 Muraena isingteena Bleeker, Ibid. IX. 1855, p. 277 (nee Richardson). 

 Thyrsoidea isingleenoides Kaup, Cat. Apod. Fish 1856, p. 74. 

 Thyrsoidea cancellata Kaup, Ibid. p. 76. 

 Thyrsoidea bullata Kaup, Ibid. p. 8r. 



1 Muraena acutirostris Abbott, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia 1860, p. 476. 

 Thyrsoidea Kaupi Abbott, Ibid. p. 477. 



Gymnothorax isingleenoides Bleeker, Atl. Ichth. IV. 1864, p. 91. 

 Gymnothorax bullatus Bleeker, Ibid. p. 91. 

 Gymnothorax cancellatus Bleeker, Ibid. p. 93. 

 Gymnothorax Agassizi Bleeker, Ibid. p. 95. 

 ? Gymnothorax Blochi Bleeker, Ibid. p. 102. 



Gymnothorax cancellatus Kner, Fische Novara Exp. 1865 1867, p. 384. 

 Muraena fimbriata Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 108. 

 Muraena microspila Gunther, Ibid. p. 109. 

 Muraena undulata Giinther, Ibid. p. no. 



Muraena imdulata Klunzinger, Verhandl. Zool. bot. Ges. Wien, XXI. 1871, p. 615. 

 Gymnothorax fimbriatus Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Amsterdam (2) VII. 1873, P- 37- 

 Muraena fimbriata Day, Fishes of India 4. 1878 1888, p. 670. 

 Muraena undulata Day, Ibid. p. 671. 



^Lycodontis acutirostris Fowler, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia 1900, p. 494. 

 Lycodontis Kaupi Fowler, Ibid. p. 494. 



