200 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Color in spirits (adult specimens) very dark purplish brown, with longitudinal rows of small, 

 diffuse, irregular black spots, smaller than eye, arranged in about four irregular rows; these spots 

 rather larger on the tail, smaller towards the head, which is not spotted; top of head and snout dark; 

 angle of mouth not colored; gill-opening not colored; fins colored like the body, the caudal with a 

 narrow pale edge; throat pale, unspotted; belly darker and spotted posteriorly. 



191. Gymnothorax mueifer Snyder. Honolulu. 



Gymnothorax mueifer Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1903 (1904) , 519, pi. 5, fig. 9, Honolulu. 

 This species is known from a single example from Hawaii. It strongly resembles Gymnothorax 

 buroensis, but in the latter the upper teeth are in two rows. 



192. Gymnothorax laysanus (Steindachner). Hawaii; Laysan. 



Mursena lay Sana Steindachner, Denks. Ak. Wiss. W'ien, xyi, June 27, 1900. 177, Laysan. 



Gymnothorax laysanus, Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., x.xn, 1902 (1903), 425, Honolulu. Snyder, Bull. TJ. S. Fish 



Comm., xxn, 1902 (1901), 518, Honolulu, Hilo. 

 LycooZontis parvibranchialis Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 404, Hawaii. 



This species is occasionally taken about the Hawaiian Islands. Dr. Steindachner's second figure 

 representing a species finely speckled with white only may represent some other species. Fowler's 

 parvibranchialu with white spots in about four rows seems to be identical with our smaller specimens. 



193. Gymnothorax polyuranodon (Bleeker). New Guinea ( Bleeker) ; East Indies. 



194. Gymnotliorax hilonis Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii. 



195. Gymnothorax tenebrosus (Richardson). Tahiti (Seale). 



Murxna tenebrosa Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, 84, 1846; locality unknown, probably Tahiti. 



196. Gymnothorax variegatus (Quoy & Gaimard). Guam. 



197. Gymnothorax chalazius Waite. Tubuai; Austral Is. (Seale); Australia. 

 Gymnothorax chalazius Waite, Rec. Austr. Mus., v, 145, 1901, Lord Howe I. 



An ally of Gymnothorax laysanus, recently taken by Mr. Seale at Tubuai. 



198. Gymnothorax javanicus (Bleeker). Pusimaoa'e. Samoa; East Indies. 



Murxna platbernon Richardson, Voy. Erebus and Terror, 84, 1846, Darnley I.; not of Quoy & Gaimard. 

 Murxna javanica Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., xix, 241, Java. 

 Gymnothorax javanicus, Bleeker, Atlas, Murrenida?, 95, tab. xxxv, fig. 2. 



Of this species we have five examples from Samoa from 1 J to 4 feet in length. It is one of the 

 largest eels of the South Seas, and the coloration is the same at all ages. The species is well separated 

 from G. batuensis, with which and with several other species Dr. Giinther has confounded it under the 

 name G. flavomarginatus. Mursenophis griseus Lacepede seems to be G. pictus. Murxna geometrica= 

 Murxna bilineata Riippell is a species of Echidna. 



Color in life of a very large specimen from Apia, brownish with blacker spots, larger behind; a 

 large black spot around gill-opening. Another specimen from Apia in life was reddish brown with jet 

 black spots and blotches, irregular in size but much larger than eye; about three rows on body, reduc- 

 ing ground-color to broad reticulations; about 40 to 50 spots in a row, those of the upper row extend- 

 ing on the dorsal, the spots rather larger than those in the second row; those of the third row still 

 smaller; belly paler, with smaller black spots; head similar, the spots small, much smaller than eye; 

 angle of mouth black; gill-opening in a large black spot; wrinkles on head dark; fins spotted and col- 

 ored like the body; tip of tail with a pale edge; obscure pale edging to fins behind. 



199. Gymnothorax flavomarginatus (Riippell). Pusi gatala (spotted moray). Samoa; Hawaii; 



New Guinea; Norfolk I.; East Indies. 



Murxna flavomarginata Ruppell, Atlas, 119, tab. x.xx.fig. 3,1828, Red Sea. Giinther, Cat., vm, 119, Zanzibar, 



Seychelles, Batu, Norfolk Island. 

 Gymnothorax flavomarginatus, Bleeker, Atlas, Muraenidae, 95, tab. xxxn, fig. 2, tab. xxxiv, fig. 3, East Indies. 

 Murxna batucnsis Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind., XII, 241, Batu. 



This dull-colored moray is, with Gymnothorax undulatus, the most common species at Samoa, and 

 it is occasionally taken at Hawaii. It is readily known by the small dusk}' spots which cover the 

 whole body, obscuring the pale ground color. The gill-opening is black, and there is a mere trace of 



