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This eel occurs along the coasts and ascends rivers through- 

 out the East Indies and southeast to the Fiji Islands. 

 Gymnothorax punctatofasciatus Bleeker. 



Mursena catenata Bleeker, Act. Soc. Sci. Indo-neerl. 1 (1856) 66 



(not Richardson). 

 Gymnothorax punctatofasciatus Bleeker, Ned. Tijdsehr. Dierk. 1 



(1863) 167; Atlas Ichth. Muram. 4 (1864) 99, pi. 31, fig. 4. 

 Mursena punctatofasciata Gunther, Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus. 8 (1870) 

 106; Day, Fishes of India (1878-88) 669, pi. 169, fig. 4. 

 Depth 22.5 to 27.7 in total length, head 8.1 to 8.3, and 2.7 

 in trunk; tail a little longer than head and trunk together; head 

 and trunk contained about 1.2 in tail ; eyes halfway between tip 

 of snout and angle of mouth, 9| to 10.8 in head, and twice in the 

 narrow but rather bluntly rounded snout ; mouth large, its gape 

 2.8 to 3.4 in head; dorsal low, its origin before gill openings, 

 which are a fifth larger than eyes; maxillaries each with about 

 sixteen small, sharp-pointed teeth and two inner canines in a 

 row near forward end; about twelve teeth around margin of 

 intermaxillary teeth and three needlelike canines forming a 

 central row; eight small teeth in a single row on vomer; about 

 twenty teeth on each side of lower jaw, and two or three much 

 larger ones on each side near symphysis, some of which may be 

 in an inner row. 



Color in alcohol brown or yellowish or grayish brown, with 

 twenty-eight to thirty-five (thirty and thirty-one in our spec- 

 imens) dark brown, more or less irregular rings, some of which 

 may be incomplete or divided, but most of which are complete. 

 The interspaces are about as wide as the rings and like the head 

 are closely dotted and spotted with darker brown. 



Here described from a specimen 225 millimeters long, col- 

 lected at Cagayan de Misamis, Mindanao, and from another, 236 

 millimeters long, probably from Cebu but possibly from Taytay, 

 Palawan. Previously recorded from the Philippines by Jordan 

 and Seale from Negros Island. This small and easily recognized 

 moray ranges from Zanzibar to the Philippines. 



Since the above was written I have seen a specimen in the 

 collection of the University of the Philippines, with thirty-four 

 rings. Another specimen, 455 millimeters long, with twenty- 

 eight rings, was collected by G. A. Lopez of the Bureau of 

 Science, at Cebu, Cebu. 

 Gymnothorax petelli Bleeker. 



Mursena petelli Bleeker, Nat. Tijdsehr. Ned. Ind. 11 (1856) 84; 

 Weber and Beaufort, Fishes Indo-Austr. Arch. 3 (1916) 372. 



