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to opposite the last teeth of the outer row, a patcli of blunt teeth usually in two rowi-, but sometimes 

 ill one, or irregularly in two; teeth in lower jaw anteriorly biserial, posteriorly unisorial, re^cniblini.' 

 in size and shape the outer series of upper jaw; gill-opening as long as eye; nuchal hump w.ll 

 developed; preanal portion of l)ody equal in length to postanal. 



Color dark with irregular dark brown spots, each conforming to the shape of its adjoining sjMjt>, 

 thickly placed over a light gray ground, leaving a fine network of the latter everywhere. 



Life colors in a specimen from Pago Pago, dark brown, fins and tail paler; surface finely dotted 

 with dark points. A specimen from Apia, with head very short, had iris golden red; body brownish, 

 very finely Init shar)ily dotted with darker brown; no markings. 



Firi. K—KHiiiln 



Type no. •~)1714, I'. S. Xational Museum, a specimen 6.5 inches long, from Apia. 



This species, known by the presence of fine black specks all over the body, is rather common 

 about Samoa, where u dozi-n specimens were taken, at .\pia and Pa'.'O Pago. A small eel with a small 

 mouth. 



221. Echidna uniformis iSeale. Guam. 



Eelildnu ntufoymis Seale, Bishop Museum, 1901, 62, Guam. 



222. Echidna delicatula Bleeker. Samoa; East Indies. 



Ei-hidna kishinninjci Jorrlan &. Snyder. Proc. II. S. Nat, JIu.s., 1901, 890, with plate, Riukiu Is. 



( If tliis species, known by the mottled purplish coloration and the anterior insertion of the dorsal, 

 we have 7 e.xamples from Pago Pago. The largest of these is about 18 inches long. This species is 

 well distinguished from E. amhlyodon of the East Indies, in having the insertion of the dorsal well in 

 front of that of the pectoral. 



Life colors of a .specimen from Pago Pago, dark olivaceous green, fins jialer greenish, body covered 

 all over with brown reticulations around black spots. 



223. Echidna amblyodon Bleeker. Marquesas Is, (Seale); East Indies. 



ANARCHIAS Jordan & Starks, new genus. 

 AnarcMaa Jordan & .^tarks, new genus of JMuni'iiidn- ( A. iillanlirci). 

 This genus contains small morays resembling (liiuitiiilhiini r, but entirely lacking the anal fin: the 

 dorsal is developed as usual. 



224. Anarchias allardicei Jordan & Starks, new species. Samoa. 



Head s..') ill length; depth 2.3 to 2.7; snout slightly blunter than in .1. kniijlili, 5..i in head; eye 1..5 

 ill Mioiit: lcii'_'tli nf mouth 2.7 to 3 in head. Teeth similar to those of A. knighti excejit that there is 

 (iiil\ A >iii;jlc \ niiierine tooth; tube of anterior nostril less than half diameter of eye; large pores rather 

 wiil.ly -ii,:iiak'<l follow along the edge of mandible and border mouth above; three of them on each 

 siili- ■>! ui>iK'r part of snout, the most |iosterior one at upper edge of eye; trunk 1.2 to 1.7 in tail. No 

 anal fin; no distinct caudal; no iiectoral. 



