200 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU t)F FISHERIES. ■ 



Color in spirits (adult specimens) very dark purplish brown, with longitudinal rows of small, 

 diffuse, irregular black spots, smaller than eye, arranged in about four irregular rows; these spots 

 rather larger on the tail, smaller towards the head, which is not spotted; top of head and snout dark; 

 angle of mouth not colored; gill-opening not colored; fins colored like the body, the caudal with a 

 narrow pale edge; throat pale, unspotted; belly darker and spotted posteriorly. 



191. Gymnothorax mucifer Snyder. Honolulu. 



Giimniithiirax niKCi/cr Snyder, Bull. L'. S. Fish Comm., x.xii, 1903 (1904), .il9. pi. .5, fig. 9. Honolulu. 

 This specie.s is known from a single example from Hawaii. It strongly resemljles Gumniilhorax 

 buroensis, but in the latter the upper teeth are in two rows. 



192. Gymnothorax laysanus (Steindachner). Hawaii; Laysan. 



Mur.riia Imisrnm Stfinflaohner. Dcnks. Ak. Wiss. Wien, .\vi, June 27, 1900, ]77. Laysan. 



aymn.,th..rnj- l,i,,»nn,f. .Jenkins. Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., .xxii, 1902 (1903;, 425, Honolulu. Snyder, Bull, V. S. Fish 



('..uiiii.. NNii, r.i"2 , 1904), 518. Honolulu, Hilo. 

 Lymd<ii,iisp<irril,nufrl,iiilis Fowler. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 404, Hawaii. 

 This species is occasionally taken about the Hawaiian Islands. Dr. Steindachner' s second figure 

 representing a species finely speckled with white only may represent some other species. Fowler's 

 parvihranchialig with white spots in about four rows seems to be identical w-ith our smaller specimens. 



193. Gymnothorax polyuranodon ( Bleeker). New Guinea ( Bleeker): East Indies. 



194. Gymnothorax hilonis Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii. 



195. Gymnothorax tenebrosus (Richardson). Tahiti (Seale). 



Miiruim linrbram Kiehard.son, Voy, Erebus and Terror, 84, 1846; locality unknown, probably Tahiti. 



196. Gymnothorax variegatus (Quoy & Gainiard). Guam. 



197. Gymnothorax chalazius Waite. Tubuai; Austral Is. (Seale); Australia, 



(llimiiiithnrax chalazius Waite, Reo. Austr. Mus., v, 145, 1904. Lord Howe I. 

 An ally of Gymnulhorax laynamis, recently taken by Mr. Seale at Tubuai. 



198. Gymnothorax javanicus (Bleeker). Pusi maoa'e. Samoa; East Indies. 



Mttr:nrt i.',r?'>. • n. /i i:irh!irdson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, 84, 184C, Darnley I.; not of Quoy & Gaimard, 



Jl/ar,. , ' n: . I;< r, Nat. Tijds, ^fed, Ind., xix, 241, Java, 



Giimii"' Uleeker, Atlas, Mursenidse, 9.5, tab. xxxv, fig. 2. 



Of this -^.. ( ic- ».■ Iiave five examples from Samoa from U to 4 feet in length. It is one of the 

 largest eels of the South Seas, and the coloration is the same at all ages. The species is well separated 

 from O. batuenm, with wliich and with several other species Dr. GiJnther has confounded it under the 

 name G. JlavomarginatU!'. ^ful■:enophis griseus Lacepede seems to be G. pictus. Munvna geometrica = 

 Muriena bilineata Riippell is a species of Echidna. 



Color in life of a very large specimen from Apia, brownish with blacker spots, larger behind; a 

 large black spot around gill-opening. Another specimen from Apia in life was reddish brown with jet 

 black spots and blotches, irregular in size but much larger than eye; about three rows on body, reduc- 

 ing ground-color to broad reticulations; about 40 to 50 spots in a row, those of the upper row extend- 

 ing on the dorsal, the spots rather larger than those in the second row-; those of the third row still 

 smaller; belly paler, with smaller black spots; head similar, the spots small, much smaller than eye; 

 angle of mouth black; gill-opening in a large black spot; wrinkles on head dark; fins spotted and col- 

 ored like the body; tip of tail with a pale edge; obscure pale edging to fins behind. 



199. Gymnothorax flavomarginatus (Riippell). Piisl <jal<tla (f^potled moray). Samoa; Hawaii; 



New Guinea; Norfolk I.; East Indie.s. 

 Murieiia .rtac/n,,' ■ Cmpim'.i, Atlas, 119, tab, xxx.tig. 3,1828, Red Sea. Gunther, Cat., vm, 119, Zanzibar, 



Seychelles, !'■ i- n ' ■■ : Mmid, 

 Gymnothoraj- I/-I i i. .ker. Atlas, Murajnida;, 9.5. tab. xx.nii, fig. 2. lab. xxxrv, fig. 3, East Indies. 



Murimabalnnisi- 1:1. , i,, i \,ii Tijcls, Ned. Ind„ xii, 241, Batu. 

 This dull-colored moray is, with Gymnotlm-ax undulatus, the most common species at Samoa, atid 

 it is occasionally taken at Hawaii. It is readily known by the small dusky spots which cover the 

 whole body, obscuring the pale ground color. The gill-opening is black, and there is a mere trace of 



