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to opposite the last teeth of the outer row, a patch of blunt teeth usually in two rows, but sometimes 

 in one, or irregularly in two; teeth in lower jaw anteriorly biserial, posteriorly uniserial, resembling 

 in size and shape the outer series of upper jaw; gill-opening as long as eye; nuchal hump well 

 developed; preanal portion of body equal in length to postanal. 



Color dark with irregular dark brown spots, each conforming to the shape of its adjoining spots, 

 thickly placed over a light gray ground, leaving a fine network of the latter everywhere. 



Life colors in a specimen from Pago Pago, dark brown, fins and tail paler; surface finely dotted 

 with dark points. A specimen from Apia, with head very.short, had iris golden red; body brownish, 

 very finely but sharply dotted with darker brown; no markings. 



Fig. 8.— Echidna trossula Jordan & Starks. new species. Type. 



Type no. 51714, U. S. National Museum, a specimen 6.5 inches long, from Apia. 



This species, known by the presence of fine black specks all over the body, is rather common 

 about Samoa, where a dozen specimens were taken, at Apia and Pago Pago. A small eel with a small 

 mouth. 



221. Echidna uniformis Seale. Guam. 



Echidna uniformis Seale, Bishop Museum, 1901, 62, Guam. 



222. Echidna delicatula Bleeker. Samoa; East Indies. 



Echidna kishinouyei Jordan & Snyder, Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1901, 890, with plate, Riukiu Is. 



Of this species, known by the mottled purplish coloration and the anterior insertion of the dorsal, 

 we have 7 examples from Pago Pago. The largest of these is about 18 inches long. This species is 

 well distinguished from E. amblyodon of the East Indies, in having the insertion of the dorsal well in 

 front of that of the pectoral. 



Life colors of a specimen from Pago Pago, dark olivaceous green, fins paler greenish, body covered 

 all over with brown reticulations around black spots. 



223. Echidna amblyodon Bleeker. Marquesas Is. (Seale); East Indies. 



ANARCHIAS Jordan & Starks, new genus. 



Anarchias Jordan & Starks, new genus of Murpenid;e {A. allardicei). 

 This genus contains small morays resembling Gymnothorax, but entirely lacking the anal fin; the 

 dorsal is developed as usual. 



224. Anarchias allardicei Jordan & Starks, new species. Samoa. 



Head 8.5 in length; depth 2.3 to 2.7; snout slightly blunter than in A. hiighti, 5.5 in head; eye 1.5 

 in snout; length of mouth 2.7 to 3 in head. , Teeth similar to those of A. hiighti except that there is 

 only a single vomerine tooth; tube of anterior nostril less than half diameter of eye; large pores rather 

 widely separated follow along the edge of mandible and border mouth above; three of them on each 

 side of upper part of snout, the most posterior one at upper edge of eye; trunk 1.2 to 1.7 in tail. No 

 anal fin; no distinct caudal; no pectoral. 



