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measurement difficult, not quite half the depth of body; dorsal 

 beginning a little forward of extremity of pectorals; lateral line 

 conspicuous. 



Color in alcohol blackish brown, slightly paler below, fins all 

 dark. The spots shown in Bleeker's figure are lacking in my 

 specimen. 



Body very elongate and snakelike, rounded, not flattened except 

 at very tip of tail. 



I have examined a specimen, No. 3417, Bureau of Science 

 collection, from Davao, Mindanao, having the following dimen- 

 sions : Length, 560 millimeters ; head, 34 ; trunk, 166 ; tail, 360 ; 

 depth, 11; eye, 3; snout, 7; gape, 12. 



Heretofore recorded from Java, Pinang, and Ceylon. I have 

 followed Bleeker's spelling and not the alteration made by 

 Giinther. 



Ophichtlius celebicus (Bleeker). 



Ophisurus celebicus Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerl. 1 (185C) 



Visschen Menado, 70. 

 Ophisurus broekmeyeri Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-Neerl. 1 (1856) 



Visschen Menado, 71. 

 Ophichthys amboine-nsis Bleeker, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. 2 (1864-1865) 



45, Atlas Ichth. Mursen. 4 (1864) 54, pi. 45, fig. 1. 

 Ophichthys broekmeyeri Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Mura?n. 4 (1864) 53, 



pi. 15, fig. 1. 

 Ophichthys celebicus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Muran. 4 (1864) 54, pi. 



15, fig. 3; Weber and Beaufort, Fishes Indo-Austr. Arch. 3 (1916) 



311. 



Depth 30.5 to 36 in length ; head 2* to 2.77 in trunk, 9 to 9.83 

 in length; head and trunk together from 0.62 to about 0.75 of 

 tail, which is nearly two-thirds the total length ; eyes moderately 

 large, 11 to 12.4 in head and 

 twice in snout, which is about 6 

 in head; pectorals about 3 in 

 head (2.58 in my specimen) ; 

 posterior nostrils in advance of 

 eyes, the opening beneath their 

 forward margin. Maxillary 

 teeth irregularly two rowed, fio. e. ophichthus celebicus (Bieeker), 

 those in lower jaw in one row, $£%£?'' 

 except at tip where they are in 



two rows for a short distance; vomerine teeth in two rows, 

 becoming irregularly three rowed posteriorly; teeth on inter- 

 maxillary plate in two or three pairs; teeth not uniform in size, 



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