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spots in this species is very great. If M. kauila and M. lampra are distinct species, we must add still 

 two more to the list. The species is very close to the Japanese Munena pardalis Schlegel, and may 

 prove to be a variation of the latter, as Bleeker has supposed. In Murmia Icailuse the white spots on 

 the belly are larger than in the Japanese species. 



The life coloration of this species is very bright and attractive. 



171. Mursena pavonina Richardson. South Seas. 



Muriena pavoiiina Richardson, Voyage Sulphur, 110, pi. .53, ligs, 1-n, South Seas. 



ENCHELYNASSA Kaup. 



172. Enchelynassa canina (t^uoy & Ciaimanl). Hawaii; Samoa; Rawak; Waigiu. 



'/" ' ' " ' ',")">• & Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, 2-17, 1.S24. Rawak, Waigiu. 



' /" ' Kaup, Apodes, 72, fig. 65, 1851; locality unknown. Jordan & Snvder. Proi\ U. s. Xat. Mus., 



: ■ . -M. Hawaii. 

 1.;/"' ' ' ' . i'/".? Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. 8. Fish Comm., xxii, 1902 (1903), 165, Kailua (Hawaii). 

 Of tins species 3 specimens are known besides the original type. These are the type of G. tinoleutus 

 from Hawaii, a very similar specimen now before us, from Samoa, and a very large example similar to 

 Kaup's type, from Hawaii. It is one of the largest of the niorays, and the most formidably armed. 



EURYMYCTERA Kaup. 



173. Eurymyctera acutirostris (Abbott). Hawaii. 



Wura-na ariitiroslris Abbott, Proo. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1860, 476, Hawaii. 



Gymnothorax acutirostris Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Soi. Phila. 1900. 494, plate Is. Hawaii, same specimen. 



GYMNOTHORAX Blocli. Pusl. 



174. Gymnothorax eupterus (Giinther). Kaiml I. 

 Murama euptera Giinther, Cat., viii, 122, 1.S70, Raoul I. 



175. Gymnothorax waialuae Snyder. Hawaii. 



Gymnothorax vmlalxia: Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xxii, 1902 (1904), 520, pi. 6, 'Waialua (near Honolulu). 

 This species is known from a young example taken by Professor Snyder. It is very close to the 

 Japanese-East Indian species, Giimnothorax relinildris, but the arrangement of the sharply defined 

 black cross-bands is different, and the interspaces lietween the bands are pale, as in Cldevanlen 

 coluhrinus. 



176. Gymnothorax petelli (Bleeker). Hawaii; Samoa; East Indies. 



Muriena pildii Bleeker, Nat. Tijd.s., XI, 84, Java. Giinther, Cat., viii, 105, Java, Mauritius. 



Gi/mnolliora pctdli. Bleeker, Atlas, JIursenidse, 99, tab. x.xxii, fig. 1. 



Muni'na iiilrrrupta Kaup, Apodes, 67, fig. 51, 1854, Red Sea. 



Giimiiiilhiirax leucacme Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xxii, 1902 (1903), 427, fig. 7, Honolulu. 

 Of this handsome species we have 7 large specimens from Pago Pago and Apia. They agree 

 entirely with the accounts both of petelli and leucacme. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, dark brown, with 19 to 22 broad black cross-bars about as wide 

 as the interspaces; fins barred like body; interspaces on anal whitish, some of the dark bands reaching 

 the fin, others not; interspaces on dorsal pale, whitish on edge, each interspace with a large marginal 

 black spot; tip of the tail white (sometimes black); angle of mouth black; belly light brown, the bands 

 anteriorly not meeting across it (a dark spot sometimes between each pair of bands). 



177. Gymnothorax meleagris (Shaw). Samoa; Fiji; East Indies. 



.1/.. ^Iiaw, Nat. Misc., pi. 220, aboiit 1802, Pacific. Giinther, Cat., viii, 100, Zanzibar, Java, Mauri- 



i Uur^inupiua h,in,i l.accpfedc, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 646, pi. vii, fig. 2, 1803; no locality. 



Thyrsoidea chlorostigma Kaup, Apodes, 89, 1854. Seychelles. 



Gymnothorax chlorosligma Bleeker, Atlas, 97, tab. xx.xiv, fig. 2, East Indies. 



nThis species, Enchelynassa canina, is said to be black, with 

 type was only 7.5 inches long, and from the description is probably 



