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upper half of body darkened by minute dots densely scattered 

 over it, these few or absent below; throat much paler; fins un- 

 spotted or very lightly dotted, yellowish, paler than body. 



This is a common eel in Manila Bay and the bangos fish 

 ponds, and is often seen in the Manila fish markets, where I 

 have obtained many living specimens. All the specimens de- 

 scribed by Jordan and his colleagues have been from Manila 

 Bay. In the museum of the University of Santo Tomas is a 

 specimen labeled Mindoro. Elsewhere it is known from Java, 

 Celebes, and Flores, and undoubtedly occurs in shallow sandy 

 bays and brackish waters throughout the Philippines. 



I am unable to separate this species and Jenkinsiella nectura. 

 The figure of the last named does not agree with the descrip- 

 tion but does agree fairly well with the present disposition. 

 Cirrhimuraena chinensis Kaup. 



Cirrhimursena chinensis Kaup, Cat. Apod. Fishes Brit. Mus. (1856) 

 27; Weber and Beaufort, Fishes Indo-Austr. Arch. 3 (1916) 292, 



Cirrhimurxna polyodon Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Muran. 4 (1864) 41, 

 OphicMhys chinensis Gunther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. 8 (1870) 75. 

 Depth 28.4 to 35 in length, head 8.5 to nearly 9.5; head 2.25 

 to 2.4 in trunk; head and trunk together 1.7 to about 2 in tail; 

 eyes about 2 in snout and 16 to 19 in head; mouth reaching far 

 behind eye, 2.5 to 2.7 in head; pectorals more than 2 in head; 

 teeth fine, needlelike, in four to six rows on maxillanes, most 

 numerous posteriorly; a band of three or four rows on vomer; 

 teeth on mandibles very minute, the bands reduced becoming 

 a single row of larger teeth posteriorly; intermaxillary plate 

 with a group of nine or ten teeth as in Weber and Beaufort s 

 figure; lateral line beginning on nape; vertical fins low, dorsal 

 beginning over or slightly behind gill opening posteriorly emar- 

 ginate and much the highest near tip of tail, somewhat as in 



light brown on underside of tail. 



I have placed here a badly preserved specimen collected at 

 Cavite in 1907. It is a female nearly ready to spawn and is 

 therefore stouter than the specimens described by authors. Its 

 dimensions are as follows: Length, 370 millimeters; head, 39, 

 trunk, 96; tail, 235; depth, 13; eye, 3; snout, 6; gape 15. 



There is also a specimen in the museum of the University 



of Santo Tomas, from Manila Bay. 



