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BULLETIN OF THK BUKEAt! OF FISHERIES. 



imilv MLK.4-:.\lI).t. 



RHINAMURaiNA Gar 



This genus differs from Eurymi/tin 

 wliich are iiroduced into long flaps. 



ing the anterior nostrils slit and dilated at the ends, 



169. 



Rhlnamuraena qusesita Garman. Marshall Is 

 Uhiiiamurmia quicsUa Garman, Bull. Essex Inst, l.siig. 111,1 

 RhinamursBna eritima Jordan & Seale, 



spei' 



Samoa. 



Head 



in total length, 2.65 in body anterior to vent; depth 2 in head; vent exactly midway 

 between tip of snout and tip of tail; length of snout, from posterior nostril, 5.20 in head; eye 2 in 

 snout; angle of jaws 2.20 in head; jaws curved and can not be completely closed; dorsal high 4.60 in 

 head; anal about one-half as high as dorsal; origin of anal immediately posterior to vent; origin of 

 dorsal about midway between gill-openings and angle of jaws; gill-openings size of eye; anterior 

 nostrils on end of snout long, about equal to eye, terminating in an expanded disk two-thirds as wide 

 as eye; posterior nostrils consisting of slightly elevated tubes situated on upper side of snout directly 



above anterior margin of eye; top of snout flat with a narrow concave groove; depth of snout at ante- 

 rior margin of eye slightly less than width; forehead evenly rounded from posterior of eyes; teeth in 

 lower jaw in a single row of 25 sharp, concave teeth on each side, the anterior five being enlarged: 

 posterior teeth of upper jaw small and uniserial, the anterior teeth large biserial canines, three uf 

 which are on the median line of vomer; a single row of blunt palatine teeth; throat with numerous 

 longitudinal wrinkles. 



Life colors, light-grayish brown, paler below; dorsal dusky with a sharply defined bluish white 

 edge; anal with a faint pale edge. Color in spirits earth-brown, yellowish on belly and under part of 

 head, dorsal and anal with distinct white margins, that of the dorsal broader, the posterior third of 

 dorsal shading into an intermarginal black area, a yellowish wash on head posterior to eye. 



This very handsome eel is known to us from a single specimen 20.15 inches long, taken at Pago 

 Pago. Type no. 51717; U. S. National Museum. 



MTTB£NA Linnaeus. 

 170. Mursena kailuse Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii. 



'Zh, tigs. 1 and 2, Ja' 



prolit 



I pardalis of 



.V/(r;i«apnr(ta/isBleeker, Atlas, MurEenida, »6, 



.Sfhlest'l. a Japanese species. 

 Muncna AaiVu.T Jordan & Evermann, Bull. V. S. Fish Comm., .\.\n, 1902 (1903), 166, Kailua i Hawaii), 

 .irurana lampra Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xxn, 1902 (1903), 423, fig. 3, Honolulu. 

 .Vi(ra;m kaaila Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xxii, 1902 (1903), 424, fig. 4, Honolulu. 

 This species is rather common about the Hawaiian reefs, but was not seen at Samoa. The receipt 

 o believe that the variation in the arrangement of 



speci 

 of additional specimens from Honolulu fo: 



