202 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Color in alcohol pale gray, much mottled and spotted with purplish brown, the brown forming 

 vague branching cross-bars or streaks, much anastomosed, covering belly also, these most bar-like 

 behind; throat and chin paler; no pale edge to fins; angle of mouth l)rovvn, with a yellow spot before 

 it on each jaw; jmres on jaws white; tins colored like the body. 



203. Gymnothorax rliodoceplialus Bleeker. Rarotonga (Scale) ; i;ast Indies. 

 ( f^'imnothorax formostts Bleeker.) 



204. Gymnothorax lineatus (Lesson). Tahiti; Oualau; Samoa; East Indies. 

 Murxnophis linealus Lesson, Voy. Coquille, 127, pi. 11, flg. 1, 1K30, Oualan; poor figure. 



Mura'iia flaveoius Lesson. Voy. Coquille, 128, pi. 11, fig. 2, 1830, Oualan; smaller specimen, with a better figure. 



Muriena grisea Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen., xxn, Bali. 11, Bali; not of Lacfp&de. 



Murxna richardsoni Bleeker, Nat. Tijd.s., ni, 2S6. Bleeker, Atlas, Mursnida:, 100, tab. xlii, fig. 2. Kner, Novara 

 Fische, 385, Tahiti. Gunther, Cat., vii . US, Zanzibar, Amboina, Ceram, East Indies. 



f Murxna ceramensis Bleeker, Nat. Tijds., in, 297, Ceram. 



Gynmothoraiceramensis Bleekei, Atlas, Mursenidse, 101, tab. xxxni, fig. 3. 



Mura'na scotiodon Bleekei, Verb. Bat. Gen., xxv, Mursenidae, 43, Sumatra. 



Murxna troscheli Bleeker, Verb. Bat. Gen., xxv, MureenidEe, 45. 



Murssna venosa Kaup, Apodes, 08, 1854, Timor. 



Thyrsoidea mnllifasciata Knup, Apodes, 87, 1854, Moluccas. 



Murama vermicularis Peters, Wiegmann's Archiv. is.n.'). 271. 



Mura-na diplodon Peters, Wiegmann's Archiv, Is.Vi, 271. 



Mur.rnn flnreHana Bleeker, Nat. Tijds., vi, 3;M, Flores. 

 We refer lliree examples of a small moray fmm Apia to Lesson's lineatus and flaivolus. In this 

 species the dorsal fin is very high, the body brown crossed by irregular darker lines, and there is, as 

 in G. rhodocephalus and G. detadus, a dark spot between two yellow spots at the angle of the mouth. 

 The individual specimens differ somewhat in color, enough to allow for the discrepancies in the poor 

 figures I ublished by Lesson. The common Gymnoihorax richardsoni of the East Indies seems to be the 

 same species. 



Color in alcohol light reddish brown, darker above, with dark vertical broken streaks or bands, 

 very irregular in form and more or less reticulating; at intervals broadening into dark spots; markings 

 a little more irregular on the tail; belly pale, unspotted or else marked like the body; head unspotted; 

 angle of mouth black, with a white spot before it on both jaws; fins very high, paler than body, the 

 cross-streaks on body extending on dorsal and anal; no white edgings on fins; gill-opening pale. 



Close to G. slellatus, but with the spots replaced by cross-streaks and reticulations. Also near O. 

 delactus but the dorsal much higher, and the markings darker and more band-like. G. rhodocephalvs 

 is also related, but in that species the cross-streaks behind ars pale. 



205. Gymnothorax ercodes Jenkins. Hawaii. 



206. Gymnothorax steindachneri Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii; Laysan. 

 (;,jmnnthorax iUindm-hm-ri Sm<\&n & Evermann, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm., xxn. 1902 (1903), 166, Honolulu. 

 Miutrmi jiavuiiKiniiiiata var., Steindachner, Denks. Ak. Wiss. Wien, Lxx, 1900, .514, pi. vi, Ak. 3. Laysan: not of 



Rlippell. 

 Of this species we have several specimens from Hawaii. It bears little resemOiance to Gyiimu- 

 Ihorax flavomarginatus, under which name Dr. Steindachner figures it. 



207. Gymnothorax gracilicauda Jenkins. Hawaii. 



This species, with a long and slender tail, is recognized in the original type only, a small speci- 

 men, perhaps the young of Gi/miiolhoraj: steindachneri.- 



208. Gymnothorax undulatus (Lacepede). Piisi puleptde. New Guinea; Hawaii; Samua; Tubuai; 



Raiatea (Seale); East Indies. 

 ? Mur.i-na marmurataa Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, 247, 1824, Waigiu, Rawak. 

 This species is very abundant throughout the South Seas. We have about S examples, large 

 and small, from Apia, and many from Hawaii. 



Color in alcohol of a large specimen from Apia, dark brown with pale yellow or yellowish-white 

 reticulated and undulated cross-streaks, very numerous and much narrower than the masses of ground 



a The .scanty description of Quoy & Gaimard is insufficient to identify this species. It is said to be reddish yellow 

 a ring-like arrangement of markings. The teeth are said to serrated. It is probably identical with Gymnothorax i 

 latus, but it might be any other of several species. 



