388 



B. Coloration uniform. 



a. Tail tapering, longer than head and trunk. M. (P.) angusticauda p. 389. 



b. Tail scarcely tapering, shorter than head 



and trunk M. (P.) moluccensis p. 390. 



Fig. 190. Two neighbouring teeth of Muraena (Priodonophis) angusticauda n. sp. 



i. Muraena (Priodonophis) reticularis Bloch. 



Gymnothorax reticularis Bloch, Ausl. Fische IX. 1795, P- 8 5- 



Gymnothorax reticulatus Bloeh, Ibid. Tab. CCCCXVI. 



Gymnothorax reticulatus Bloch, Schneider, System. Ichth. 1801, p. 528. 



Muraenophis reticularis Lacepede, Hist. nat. Poiss. V. 1803, p. 628, 642, 643. 



Muraena reticidata Richardson, Voyage Erebus & Terror, Fish. 1844, p. 82. 



Muraena minor Schlegel, Fauna japon. Poissons II. 1847, P- 2 ^9- 



Muraena reticulata Kaup, Cat. Apod. Fish. 1856, p. 60. 



Muraena minor Bleeker, Verh. Batav. Gen. XXVI. 1854 57, Nieuwe Nalezingen 



Ichth. Japan p. 123. 



Priodonophis minor Kner, Fische Novara-Exp. 1865 1867, p. 382. 

 Muraena reticularis Giinther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 105. 

 Priodonophis reticularis Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. IV. (1871) 1872, p. 124. 



Verh. Akad. Amsterdam XVIII. (1877) 1878, Poiss. Japon p. 26. 

 Muraena reticularis Day, Fish. India 4. 1878 1888, p. 669. 

 Gymnothorax rcticular!s]or&a.n. & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXIII. 1901, p. 882. 



Height 23, head 7 8.2, 2.2 2.6 in trunk. Tail about one 

 length of head longer than head and trunk. Eye more than 

 10, i '/ 3 1'/ 2 in snout, situated somewhat nearer to angle of 

 mouth than to end of snout. Snout scarcely compressed, rather 

 short. Tubes of anterior nostrils very short, about half eye. 

 Gape of mouth 3 3.5 in head. The mouth can be shut com- 

 pletely. Gillopenings as wide as eye. Dorsal rather high, beginning 

 before gillopenings. Maxillary teeth and those in the anterior 



