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g 2 . Not spotted with lichenlike blotches; no white mar- 

 gin on anal; teeth on vomer in one row; ground 

 color dark with a network of white or yellowish 



r\ Tail much shorter than head and trunk; lines on 



body and tail very fine G. pseudothyrsoideus. 



r 2 . Tail longer than or nearly equal to head and trunk 



s\ Head 2 to 2.6 in trunk; tail longer than head and 

 trunk • G. undulatus. 



s\ Head 2.75 to 3 in trunk; tail a little longer or 

 shorter than head and trunk G. favagineus. 



Gymnothorax pictus (Ahl). 



Mursena picta Ahl, De Muraena et Ophichtho, Thunberg Dissert. 3 



(1789) 6, pi. 2, fig. 2; Gunther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. 8 (1870) 



116; Day, Fishes of India (1878-88) 672, pi. 172, fig. 4; Weber and 



Beaufort, Fishes Indo-Austr. Arch. 3 (1916) 362, figs. 175, 180, 182, 



183. 

 Gymnothorax pictus Bloch and Schneider, Syst. Ichth. (1801) 529; 



Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Muram. 4 (1864) 87, pi. 26, figs. 3 and 4; 



pi. 28, fig. 3; pi. 29, fig. 1; pi. 45, fig. 3; Jordan and Evermann, 



Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 23 (1903) (1905) 103, pi. 19. 

 Mursena lita Richardson, Voyage Erebus and Terror, Fishes 



(1844-1848) 84. 

 Mursena polyophthalmus Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-neerl. 3 (1858) 



15. 

 Gymnothorax polyophthalmus Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Muraen. 4 (1864) 



96, pi. 30, fig. 3. 

 Gymnothorax pictus, litus, and polyophthalmus Jordan and Seale, 



Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisheries 25 (1905) (1906) 198, 199. 

 Gymnothorax pictus and litus Jordan and Richardson, Bull. U. S. 



Bur. Fisheries 27 (1907) (1908) 239. 



Depth 14.4 to over 20 in total length; head 2.4 to 2.7 in trunk 

 and 7 to 8 in length ; head and trunk together the same length, 

 or somewhat shorter than tail in my specimens; in one 

 specimen which has had the tail bitten off and healed over, 

 head and trunk are slightly longer than tail ; eyes 8.3 to 9 or 10 

 in head and 1.4 to about 1.8 in the bluntly rounded snout which 

 is 5.5 to over 6 in head; mouth closes completely, and is 2.4 

 to nearly 3 in head ; origin of dorsal very slightly in advance of 

 gill openings. 



Teeth sharp, pointed, in one row in maxillaries; the very 

 young have two rows, the inner gradually disappearing ; a single 

 row of ten to fourteen stouter teeth on intermaxillary plate, with 

 a single central tooth which is not fanglike and is no larger than 

 the others ; in very young specimens there is an outer row of small 

 teeth inclosing two or three central teeth ; teeth on vomer in two 



