23,2 H err e: Philippine Eels 161 



Mr. G. A. Lopez, of the Bureau of Science, also collected a 

 specimen, 370 millimeters long, at Cabalian, Leyte, May 26, 

 1922. 



A marine, reef-dwelling species occurring from Madagascar 

 to the East Indies and on to the South Sea Islands. 

 Genus CHLEVASTES Jordan and Snyder 

 Chlevastes Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 23 (1901) 867. 

 Elongate, snakelike, the vertical fins low, the dorsal beginning 

 on top of head far in advance of gill openings and ending the 

 length of head before tip of tail; anal ending far before end 

 of dorsal, at least twice the length of head, if not more, before 

 tip of tail; teeth mostly blunt, granular or molar, in two series 

 on jaws and vomer; those of intermaxillary in a group of eight 

 or nine, separated from the rest by an interspace and situated 

 in a furrow between nostrils ; pectorals rudimentary. 



One species, widely distributed in the tropical seas of the 

 eastern hemisphere. This genus is very close to Myrichthys, of 

 which it is made a subgenus by Weber and Beaufort, and differs 

 principally in the disappearance of the anal fin far before the 

 tip of the tail. 

 Chlevastes colubrimis (Boddaert) . Plate 4. 



Murarna colubrina Boddaert, in Pallas, Neue Nord. Beytr. 2 (1781) 

 OpLti^' flatus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Muram. 4 (1864) 65, pi. 21, 

 ChltvaLs colubrinus Jordan and Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 23 

 MyThiyTiChlevustes) colubrinus Weber and Beaueort, Fishes 



Indo-Austr. 3 (1916) 285, figs. 130, 131. 

 Chlevastes fasciatus Jordan and Seale, I 



Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisheries 25 



C S"l^, Proc. Acad. Na, Sci. PhUa. 64 (*«) 18, 

 flg-3. 

 In a specimen from Dumaguete, Oriental Negros having a 

 length of 555 millimeters, the depth is 55.5 in tota 1 lengt i 

 length of head, 28 millimeters; diameter of eye 2.5 ; lengt of 

 head and trunk together, 248; tail, 307; dorsal £ terainrte. 

 18 millimeters from tip of tail; anal terminate * f \ m "* r * 

 from tip of tail. This eel has thirty comp ete b lack nm s he 

 first ring on the snout being connected with he second .by a 

 broad black band on the underside, the rings all wider than the 



