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ECHIDNA Forster. 
33. Echidna polyzona (Richardson). 
Murzna polyzona Richardson, Voy. Sulphur, Ichth., 1, 1845, 112, pl. 55, fig. 11-14; no locality. 
Echidna zonophxa Jordan & Eyermann, Bul. U.S. Fish Comm., Xxm, 1902, 167. Ibid., Xx111, pt. 1, 1903, 109, pl. 21; Honolulu 
Echidna vincta Jenkins, ibid., XX, 1902, 429; Hawaii. 
Echidna obscura Jenkins, ibid., xx, 1902, 430, fig. 11; Honolulu. 
Echidna psalion Jenkins, ibid., XXII, 1902, 431, fig. 12; Honolulu. 
(?) Echidna leihala Jenkins, ibid., Xx11, 1902, 428, fig. 9 (body not barred except at tip of tail). 
(?) Paecilophis tritor Vaillant & Sauvage, Rec. et Mag. Zool. (3), 11, 287, 1875; Hawaii. Not barred. 
Adults (2. zonophxa) have the interspaces between the 24 or 25 broad rich brown bands more or less 
broken up by mottlings, the plain (white?) interspaces appearing only on the tail. Young specimens 
have both the bands and the interspaces plain. The cross bands are obsolete on the belly. Life colors 
of young, white and dark brown; of adults, brown of different shades, and golden yellow. 
Crabs were found in the stomach of a large specimen. 
Three specimens from Calayan, one 21 inches long and two under 5 inches. The numerous syn- 
onyms of this species seem to represent color variations, chiefly in young specimens. All of the nominal 
species have the white band on the snout as originally figured by Sir John Richardson. 
34. Echidna nebulosa (Ahl). 
Ground color cream in life, regularly marked with large stellate blotches of dark brown, with smaller 
spots of light yellow; nasal tubes orange. 
One specimen from Calayan, 14 inches long. 
Family MORINGUIDA. 
MORINGUA Gray. 
35. Moringua abbreviata (Bleeker). 
One specimen from Ticao Island, 8 inches long. 
Family CYPRINIDA. 
BARBODES Bleeker. 
86. Barbodes hemictenus Jordan & Richardson, new species. 
Body moderately elongate, compressed, the back elevated, its highest point being at front of dorsal 
fin; head 3.60; depth 3; width of body 1.6 in head; depth of caudal peduncle 2 in head; dorsal m1, 8; 
anal m1, 6; scales 44 or 54-24-23; scales before dorsal 9; snout 3.3 in head; eye 3.9; maxillary 3.6, reaching 
scarcely to front of orbit; interorbital distance 2.5 in head; mouth subterminal, very little oblique, the 
lips thin, the lower jaw overhung by the upper lip; upper jaw protractile; 2 barbelsat each angle of upper 
jaw, the longest reaching to posterior margin of preopercle; nostrils separated by a small flap; head 
without tubercles or conspicuous pores; interorbital space gently convex; gill-membranes united to the 
isthmus at a point directly under the angle of the preopercle, the breadth of the isthmus about equal to 
diameter of eye; teeth, 2, 3, 4, or 54 or 5, 3, 2, slightly hooked, with narrow grinding surface; tongue 
adnate; origin of dorsal over third ray of ventrals, slightly nearer base of caudal than end of snout; dorsal 
base 1.8 in head; third dorsal spine enlarged, moderately strong, 1.2 in head, rather weakly serrated 
along the posterior edge of its outer half; anal equidistant between base of ventrals and base of caudal; 
anal base 2.8 in head; pectoral 1.25, weakly falcate, reaching within about one pupil’s length of base of 
ventrals; ventrals 1.5, within one eye-length or less of vent; caudal forked, its middle rays but little 
less than half the length of its outer; scales large, cycloid; a single elevated range of scales along each 
side of base of dorsal and anal; accessory scale of ventral pointed, as long as eye; lateral line complete, 
decurved at middle, where its distance from base of ventral fin is nearly exactly twice its distance from 
the mid-dorsal line. 
Color in spirits olivaceous, darker above; a dark lateral stripe, wider than pupil, reaching from 
upper corner of gill-opening to just above middle of base of caudal fin; a conspicuous roundish black 
spot, as large as eye, at middle of tip of caudal peduncle, immediately in front of base of caudal fin; 
«The accuracy of Bloch’s figure of Gymnothorar reticularis was affirmed by Doctor Giinther more than thirty years 
ago (Cat., 11, 106) and tHe relationships of the three species reticularis, petelli, and ruppellii outlined essentially as above. 
