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Ichthyophis iigrinus Richardson, Zoology Voyage Erebus & Terror, 1844, p. 96. 

 Muraenoblenna tigrina Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sc. Indo-Neerl. II. 1857, Achtste Bijdr. 



vischf. Ambon p. 93 ! ). 



Ichthyophis iigrinus Bleeker, Versl. Akad. Amsterdam XV. 1863, p. 463. 

 Gymnomuraena tigrina Bleeker, All. Icht. IV. 1864, p. 113. 

 Gymnomuraena tigrina Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. VIII. 1870, p. 133. 

 Scuticaria tigrina Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish. Comm. XXIII (1903) 



1905, p. 112. 

 Gymnonnir aena tigrina Gunther, Fische der Siidsee, Heft IX. 1910, p. 424. 



Height 27 30; head 12 i3'/ 2 , 6.4 7.8 in trunk. Tail i 3 / 4 

 to more than twice in head and trunk. Eye more or less than 

 15, situated above the middle of the cleft of the mouth, which 

 goes 3 times or somewhat more in length of head, is horizontal 

 and shuts completely. Snout somewhat rounded, 7 times in 

 head and more than twice length of eye. Anterior nostrils in 

 a conspicuous tube, somewhat longer than the tube of the 

 posterior nostrils. Gillopenings smaller than eye, about in the 

 middle of the height. Maxillary teeth with an outer series of 

 smaller teeth and a much shorter inner series of longer and 

 depressible teeth; the outer series continued on the inter- 

 maxillary plate and enclosing some large, depressible teeth. 

 On vomer 2 or 3 large teeth in a single series. Mandibles 

 anteriorly with 2, posteriorly with I series of teeth. Reddish 

 brown with numerous larger and smaller black blotches. Length 

 about 1 200 mm. [A specimen of BLEEKER'S collection seen by us]. 



Habitat: Java (Prigi); Cocos Islands; Celebes; Ambon; 

 Timor. From Red Sea, East coast of Africa and Mauritius 

 to Sandwich Islands. 



Note. KNER (Novara-Exp. Fische, p. 387) gives a descrip- 

 tion of a fish from Tahiti, which he calls Gymnomuraena tigrina, 

 but which can not be the present species, as KNER states 

 that head and trunk are about equal to tail. DAY'S G. tigrina 

 (Fishes of India 4. 1878 1888, p. 674) must also be an other 

 species, as he says: "Tail nearly twice as long as body". This 

 may however be a misprint. It may be noted here that BLEEKER 

 makes a similar mistake in his Atlas Ichthyologique, where 

 G. tigrina is characterized in the key by: "Queue beaucoup 

 plus longue que le tronc". In the "remarques" following on 



i) BLEEKER has shown (Versl. Akad. Amsterdam XV. 1863, p. 462) that 

 KAUP has confounded Gymnomuraena marmorata and Gymnothorax polyuranodon 

 under this name. 



