248 KXPKDITIOX OF TIIK " AI,l?.\Ti{()SS," 1S<)<I-U)()(I. 



Gymnothorax stellatus (Lacei'kde). 



Mtiraenophis sleUalus Lacepkde, Hist. Xat. I'oi.s.s., ls(i:;, 5, p. t)22, 629, 644. 



Muraena fimhriala Bennett, Proc Comm. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1831, p. 168. D.\Y, Fislu's uC India, 

 1878, p. 670, p!. 172, fig. 1. 



No. 05775, a specimen 71 inches long, and 057.S2, M. C. Z. 29580, 31 inches 

 long, from Fakarava, Paumotu Islands. 



Echidna tritor \'aili..\\t & Saivage. 



Kcv. ct Mag. Zool, 1N7."), 3, p. 2S7. 



Echidna Idhala Jenki.n.s, Bull. V. S. Fi.sh Coiiiin., I'.M):;, 22, p. 42N, lin. !i. .Icikdan * Skai.k, Hull. 

 U. S. Bur. Fi.sh., 1906, 25, p. 20.j. 



No. 05773, a .specimen 92 inches long and 05774, AI. ('. Z. 29579, 5j inches 

 long, from Fakara\'a, Painnotu Islands. In the jiosition of the \ent, which is 

 near(M' the ti]) of snout than the ti]) of tail, these sptn-iniens agree with E. psalion. 



Enchelynassa canina ((^i ov & Caimard). 



Jordan & Sealk, Hull. T. S. Hur. Ki.-^h., 1906, 25, p. 197. 



M uraeiia caninii (^lov A: (Iaimauu, \'i)y. Uranic. Zool., 1S24, p. 247. 



No. A51, 18^ inches long from Fakarava, Paumotu Islands. 

 Uropterygius pantherinus (Lesson). 



Irhlh,i„iihis imnlhcriiinx I.kssc.n, \ o\ . (■|h|Ui1Ic. Zool. I'ois^., ls:i(). 2, p. Kil, .\llas, pi. i:i. 

 (/i/mitomiiniiita piinlhrrinii Hi.kekkh, Alias Iclilh., IStll, 4, p. 1 12, li:i, lab. 17."), .\Iur. Ill, ti)j;.:j. 



Number .V49, a sjiecimen 'Z'.il niches long from Fakara\a, I'aumolus. 



Sharp curved teeth in both jaws in several irregular I'ows that are hard to 

 count; at least four rows anteriorly, bunched in front of vomer and at the 

 junction <if u))])ei- jaw; \dmer with two rows of teeth anteriorly, single row 

 posterioi-ly, those in front cm-ved i)ackward, tiie jjosterioi- three curved forward. 

 No vestige of tin e\ce|)1 at e\1reniit>- of tail. 



This specimen is very certainly identifiable with di/niiKillioni.r jKiiilhcriun 

 in Biecker's Atlas, l^leeker states tliat his specimens are quile cerlainly the 

 same as Lesson's Iclilhi/dpliis iKinlhcrinus. and suggests the possibilily of its 

 being the (iijintKiniurdi n<t nmnnoniln Lac('pede. It is, howe\('i', ([uite as certain 



