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top of head to opposite pupil of eye; pores on sides of head 

 and behind mouth as in Bleeker's figure. Teeth on premaxillary 

 plate large, stout, pointed, forming a separate group of two or 

 six; teeth in jaws and on vomer in one row, pointed, curved, 

 fixed, those in front of lower jaw larger. 



Color in alcohol a yellowish brown, paler beneath; a large 

 broad blackish band on nape, with a broad pale yellowish band 

 before and a narrower pale band behind it; dorsal beginning 

 above posterior end of pectoral; both dorsal and anal with 

 brownish base, a black or dark line along middle, and very 

 pale margin. 



I have examined one specimen taken at Cavite, with a length 

 over all of 432 millimeters. Recorded also from Cebu by Giin- 

 ther. This distinctly marked species attains a length of almost 

 a meter and occurs throughout the East Indies, northward to 

 Japan, south and eastward to the Pelew Islands, North Aus- 

 tralia, and the Tonga Islands. 

 Ophichthus grandoculis (Cantor). 



Ophiswrus grandoculis Cantor, Cat. Malayan Fishes, Journ. Roy. 



Asiat. Soc. Bengal 18 (1849) 324, pi. 5, fig. 3 (teeth). 

 Ophichthys grandoculis Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Mursen. 4 (1864) 48, 



pi. 47, fig. 5; Gunther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. 8 (1870) 71. 

 Ophichthus grandoculis Jordan and Richardson, Bull. U. S. Bur. 

 Fisheries 27.(1907) (1908) 238. 



Depth 27.2, head 9.5 in total length and 2.6 in trunk; head and 

 trunk together equal 62 per cent of tail, which is in turn 61.8 per 

 cent of total length ; eyes moder- 9 



ately large, their upper margin ooa 



flush with profile, 9.5 in head ,dk $^\ 



and 1.5 in snout, the latter 6.1 /1°\b 



in head ; mouth extends well be- 

 hind eyes, its gape 3.7 in head; 



teeth subulate to rounded, in / g \ f d % 



one row in jaws except about * *£c ^ 

 symphysis of mandibles, where ¥t& 5 0phichtkus grandoculis < cantor), 

 they are slightly two rowed; dentUio . n ;\^™^ iU ^ n ^!e 9 : *'£?' 

 four rather bluntly pointed teeth allanes ' c ' vomer ' 

 on premaxillary and a double row on vomer, anterior ones largest ; 

 pectorals 2.6 in head; height of dorsal about one-third the depth 

 of body and it begins just before middle of the reflexed pectoral. 



Body everywhere very finely punctulated with minute dusky 

 specks, over a pale whitish yellow ground color; on frv of head 



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