202 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Color in alcohol pale gray, much mottled and spotted with purplish brown, the brown forming 

 vague branching cross-bars or streaks, much anastomosed, covering belly also, these most bar-like 

 behind; throat and chin paler; no pale edge to fins; angle of mouth brown, with a yellow spot before 

 it on each jaw; pores on jaws white; fins colored like the body. 



203. Gymnothorax rh.odoceph.alus Bleeker. Rarotonga (Seale); East Indies. 

 ( Gymnolhorax formosus Bleeker.) 



204. Gymnothorax lineatus (Lesson). Tahiti; Oualan; Samoa; East Indies. 



Mursenophis lineatus Lesson, Voy. Coquille, 127, pi. 11, fig. 1, 1830. Oualan; poor figure. 



Mursena flaveolus Lesson, Voy. Coquille, 12S, pi. 11, fig. 2, 1830, Oualan; smaller specimen, with a better figure. 



Mursena grisea Bleeker, Verb.. Bat. Gen., xxn, Bali, 11, Bali; not of Lac<5pede. 



Mursena richardsoni Bleeker, Nat. Tijds., in, 2C6. Bleeker, Atlas, Murrenida?, 100, tab. xlii, fig. 2. Kner, Novara 



Fiscbe, 3S5, Tahiti. Giinther, Cat., vn . 118, Zanzibar, Amboina, Ceram, East Indies. 

 t Mursena ceramensis Bleeker, Nat. Tijds., in, 297, Ceram. 

 Gymnothorax ceramensis Bleeker, Atlas, Mursenida?, 101, tab. xxxin, fig. 3. 

 Mursena scoliodon Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen., xxv, Muranidse, 43, Sumatra. 

 Mursena iroscheli Bleeker, Verh. Bat. Gen., xxv, Muramidas, 45. 

 Mursena venosa Kaup, Apodes, OS, 1S54, Timor. 

 Thyrsoidea niultifasciata Kaup, Apodes, S7, 1854, Moluccas. 

 Mursena vermicularis Peters, wiegmann's Arehiv, 1855, 271. 

 Muv-sena diplodon Peters, Wiegmann's Arehiv, 1855, 271. 

 Mursena jloresiana Bleeker, Nat. Tijds., VI, 334, Flores. 



We refer three examples of a small moray from Apia to Lesson's lineatus and flareolus. In this 

 species the dorsal fin is very high, the body brown crossed by irregular darker lines, and there is, as 

 in G. rhodocephalus and G. delactns, a dark spot between two yellow spots at the angle of the mouth. 

 The individual specimens differ somewhat in color, enough to allow for the discrepancies in the poor 

 figures ; ublished by Lesson. The common Gymnothorax richardsoni of the East Indies seems to be the 

 same species. 



Color in alcohol light reddish brown, darker above, with dark vertical broken streaks or bands, 

 very irregular in form and more or less reticulating; at intervals broadening into dark spots; markings 

 a little more irregular on the tail; belly pale, unspotted or else marked like the bod} - ; head unspotted; 

 angle of mouth black, with a white spot before it on both jaws; fins very high, paler than body, the 

 cross-streaks on body extending on dorsal and anal; no white edgings on fins; gill-opening pale. 



Close to G. stellatus, but with the spots replaced by cross-streaks and reticulations. Also near G. 

 detactas but the dorsal much higher, and the markings darker and more band-like. G. rhodocephalus 

 is also related, but in that species the cross-streaks behind are pale. 



205. Gyrnnotliorax ercodes Jenkins. Hawaii. 



206. Gymnothorax steindachneri Jordan & Evermann. Hawaii; Laysan. 



Gymnothorax stcindaehneri Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U.S. Fish Comm., xxn, 1902 (1903), 166, Honolulu. 

 Muxrna fiavomarginata var., Steindachner, Denks. Ak. Wiss. Wien, lxx, 1900, 514, pi. vi, fig. 3, Laysan; not of 

 Kuppell. 



Of this species we have several specimens from Hawaii. It bears little resemblance to Gymrio- 

 ihorax jlavomarginatus, under which name Dr. Steindachner figures it. 



207. Gymnothorax gracilicauda Jenkins. Hawaii. 



This species, with a long and slender tail, is recognized in the original type only, a small speci- 

 men, perhaps the young of Gymnothorax steindachneri. 



208. Gymnothorax undulatus (Lacepede). Pusi pulepule. New Guinea; Hawaii; Samoa; Tubuai; 



Raiatea (Seale); East Indies. 

 ? Mursena marmorataa Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, 247, 1824, Waigiu, Rawak. 

 This species is very abundant throughout the South Seas. We have about 8 examples, large 

 and small, from Apia, and many from Hawaii. 



Color in alcohol of a large specimen from Apia, dark brown with pale yellow or yellowish-white 

 reticulated and undulated cross-streaks, very numerous and much narrower than the masses of ground 



«The scanty description of Quoy & Gaimard is insufficient to identify this species. It is said to be reddish yellow with 

 a ring-like arrangement of markings. The teeth are said to serrated. It is probably identical with Gymnothorax undv- 

 latus, but it might be any other of several species. 



