seale: new species of apodal fishes. 91 



serrate. (The mouth has been badly broken and many teeth lost). 

 Snout 4.5 in head, its width at center greater than its depth; anterior 

 nostrils in small tubes near end of snout; posterior nostril without 

 tubes and located above the anterior portion of the eye. The eye is 

 about mid-way between tip of snout and angle of jaw. 



Gill-openings the size of eye, and located on middle of sides. 



No pectoral fin. Anal and dorsal distinct, and uniting around tip 

 of tail; origin of dorsal anterior to gill-openings at the beginning of 

 nuchal region. 



Color grayish white, with narrow black bands, about as wide as eye 

 and much less than interspaces; fifteen of these on head and trunk. 

 There seemed to have been about twenty-one additional bands on the 

 tail as they show distinctly in both the anal and dorsal fins, but on the 

 sides of the tail, the lower portion of these bands seems somewhat 

 broken up into spots. 



The anterior band is on tip of snout, the second through the eye; 

 the third through the angle of jaws; there are two more distinct bands 

 between the angle of mouth and the gill-openings. The gill-openings 

 fall mid-way between the dark bands and are located in a distinct 

 brown spot. Fins colored like body. 



Total length 905 m.; length to anal pore 430 m.; length of tail 

 475- m.; length of head 120 m. 



Type.— M. C. Z. 6145. Mauritius. Nicholas Pike. 



Gymnothorax elegans, sp. nov. 



Body elongate, cylindrical, compressed; head moderately pointed, 

 mouth large, the lower jaw slightly the longer ; tail evenly compressed 

 from the anal pore 1.8 in head. The head 9.60; into trunk 3.1. 



Mouth rather large; length from tip of snout to angle of jaws 2.2; 

 jaws not closing fully. Teeth uniserial; maxillary with eleven acute, 

 compressed teeth which decrease in size posteriorly; premaxillary with 

 six sharp teeth. Vomer with one large depressible fange anteriorly, 

 plus a single series of three small short teeth on the shaft; mandibular 

 teeth twenty on each side acute, compressed, becoming smaller pos- 

 teriorly. Snout rather short and high, its length 5.1 in head, its depth 

 at eye about equal to its width; anterior nostrils in tubes about half 

 as long as eye; posterior nostril without tube and located on a line 

 above anterior margin of eye; the eye is small 2.1 in snout and located 



