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that otii' speriiiu'iis, as well as Bleeker's, are not (jiiinnothora.v niannordld, if 

 those recorded from the Hawaiian Islands by Jordan & Evermann, and those 

 from Samoa by Jordan & Seale, are correctly identified. 



A\Tiile Lesson's Ichthyophin jxintlicn'miH has lieen included in the synonymy 

 of l^ro])lef!j(/ius iiiannnrata. it has not the same character of vertical fins on the 

 tail, in fact it has practically none, while V . UKinnornta from Hawaii has the 

 vertical fins extending a short distance on the tail lioth al)ove and Itelow. There 

 is nothing in Lesson's description to show the munber of the rows of teetli or 

 whether the jiosterior nostril was tubular or not. In fact no i)osterior nostril 

 is shown in the figure, but the color, shape, and character of the tail, are nuich 

 like those of our specimens, which have the posterior nostril tubular. We there- 

 fore retain Lesson's specific name and place it in L'ropterygius."" 



' I'roplcrygius mannomla in Fislie.« of Hawaiian Islands, Jordan & Evermann, is incorrccllj' illus- 

 trated bj- a figure of Callcchelys marmorala copied from tab. 155, Mur. 11, fig. 2 of Bleeker's .\tlas. 

 I'robably Gi/mriomuraena jnacropterus, p. 113, 115, and G. xanlhoplerus, p. 112, 114 and tab. 164, Mur. 

 20, fig.s. 2 and 4 of Bleeker's Atlas and possibly G. madrocephaius, p. 112, and 114, tab. IfiG, Mur. 21, 

 fig. 2, are correctly included in the synonymy of [". marmorala. 



-In Fi.slios of Hawaiian Islands Jordan & Evermami place the genus Ichthyophis Lesson in the 

 synonymy of Eropterygius as follows: "Ichthyoiihis Lesson, Voy. de la Coquille, 1829, 2, p. 1.'51. (/«i/(- 

 therinus = mnrmnralus); not of Fitzinger 1829 (1826) a genus of reptiles." 



Also in their synonymy of Uroplerygius marmoratiis occurs: — Irhlhi/ophia panthcrinu.s Lesson, 

 Voy. Coquille. Zool. Poiss., 1829, 2, p. 131 



In the Proceedings of the V. S. Nat. Mus. 1901, 23, p". 886, Jordan & Snyder establish the geiuis 

 Scuticaria, retaining as type of the genus IchthijophU tujrinus Lesson, having the posterior as well as 

 the anterior nostril tubular. 



In Fishes of Hawaiian Islands, (Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. 1905, 23, pt. 1, p. 112) Jordan & Evermann in 

 the synonymy of Sculicaria have: — " Muraenohlerma Kaup, Cat. Apod. Fish., 97, 1856 (tigrina); not of 

 Laccpede, 1803, which is a Myxine." In the same work (p. 113) in the synonymy of Scuiicura tigrma, 

 they include "Ichthyophis tigrinus Le.sson, Mem. Hoc. Hist. Xat. Paris, IV, 399, 1829." RiippoU sliows, 

 in the figure of Vroplirygius concolor, a short tube at posterior nostril, and says in the description of this 

 species:— "N'asenlocher wie gewohnlich bei (h n Muraenen mil Eurzen Hautffihlern versehen." This 

 does not necessarily exclude posterior nostrils. 



Jordan & Evermann in the description of f '. marmorata, state that the anterior nostrils are in short 

 tubes and the posterior have elevated rims. A specimen of theirs, from the Hawaiian Islands, shows 

 the posterior tube as long as the anterior. .Specimens in (he V. S. Xat. Mus. from the same locality 

 and labeled Uropterygius marmorala, that are 5 to (i inches long. show, in the smaller examples, no rim, 

 and in the larger, a very slight rim at posterior nostril. 



These resemble specimens of the same .size from Samoa, labeled Uropterygius concolor, all ol winch 

 are.exactly like specimens in our collection which we have identified as young U. marmorata. Larger 

 specimens from Samoa labeled "Sculicaria marmorala," show posterior nostril tubes as (hey arc ui a 

 specimen of Sculicaria tigrinus of the same size from Hawaii. 



It thus seems that the present'C or ab.sencc of posterior nasal tubes affords no basis for scparaluig 

 the genera on this character, and the genus Scuticaria will have to be dropped in favor of I'ropterygius. 



The type of Ichthyophis is tigrinus and not pantherinus (Lesson, Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris, 1828, 

 4, p. 400). 



