230 The Philippine Journal of Science 1923 



and a central row of one to three canines ; vomer with a single 

 row of from three to nine small teeth; mandibles with a 

 single row of about nineteen on each side; in young specimens 

 the teeth near symphysis may be irregularly two rowed. 



Color in alcohol brownish to rather dark brown, finely retic- 

 ulated or marbled everywhere with lighter, or with more or 

 less conspicuous very fine white or yellow lines ; chin and belly 

 scarcely paler than upper parts; occasionally almost uniform 

 dark brown. There is no black around gill opening and no light 

 border to fins except at tip of tail. This species reaches a length 

 of over 560 millimeters. 



There is a small specimen of this moray in the museum of 

 Santo Tomas, presumably collected in Manila Bay. This species 

 was described by Bleeker from Celebes and Amboina, and occurs 

 rarely from Zanzibar and Muscat to Formosa and Darnley 

 Island, which lies between New Guinea and Queensland Aus- 

 tralia. 



Genus ANARCHIAS Jordan and Seale 



Anarchias Jordan and Seale, Bull. U. S. Bur. Fisheries 25 (1905) 

 (1906) 204. 



This genus differs chiefly from Gymnothorax, which it other- 

 wise closely resembles, in having no anal; from Uropterygius 

 it differs in having a fully developed dorsal fin. 

 Anarchias reticulatus sp. nov. Plate 9, fig. 3. 



Depth 18 to 21.7 in length and 2.2 to 2.5 in head, which goes 

 from 8.1 to 8.27 in length and 2.8 to 2.95 in trunk; head and 

 trunk together shorter than tail, being contained in it 1.08 to 

 1.14; eye small, 12.5 to 15 in head and 1.7 to 2 in snout, which 

 is 7i to 1\ in head; mouth wide, closing completely, its gape 

 2.93 to 3.14 in head; two rows of teeth in both jaws; outer row 

 of very small, fixed, pointed teeth, inner of depressible caninelike 

 teeth of much greater length, usually more than twice as long; 

 two still longer median canines on intermaxillary plate, the 

 second one very long and fanglike; a short row of six small, 

 sharp-pointed, depressible teeth on vomer. 



Head narrow, jaws subequal, lower inclined to project slightly; 

 gill openings smaller than eyes; dorsal beginning far forward 

 of gill openings; anal absent or reduced to a rudiment which 

 is confluent with the small caudal. 



Color in alcohol gray or warm reddish brown, everywhere 

 covered with irregular dark lines and markings, more or less 



