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spots in this species is very great. If .1/. kauUa and M. lampra are distinct species, we must add still 

 two more to the list. The species is very close to the Japanese Mursma partialis Schlegel, and may 

 prove to be a variation of the latter, as Bleeker has supposed. In Mursma kailuse the white spots on 

 the belly are larger than in the Japanese species. 



The life coloration of this species is very bright and attractive. 



171. Mursena pavonina Richardson. South Seas. 



Murxna pavonina Richardson, Voyage Sulphur, 110, pi. 53, figs. 1-6, South Seas. 



ENCHELYNASSA Kaup. 



172. Enchelynassa canina (Quoy & (iaimard). Hawaii; Samoa; Rawak; Waigiu. 

 Murxna caninaa Quoy &. Gairuard, Voy. Franie, 217. 1824, Rawak, Waigiu. 



Enchelynassa blcekcn Kaup, Apodes, 72, fig. 55, lf-'61: locality unknown. Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



XXVII, 1904, 941, Hawaii. 

 Gymnothorax vinolentus Jordan & Evermann, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xxii, 1902 (1903), 165, Kailua i Hawaii). 

 Of this species 3 specimens are known besides the original type. These are the type of G. vinolentui 

 from Hawaii, a very similar specimen now before us, from Samoa, and a very large example similar to 

 Kaup's type, from Hawaii. It is one of the largest of the morays, and the most formidably armed. 



EURYMYCTERA Kaup. 



173. Eurymyctera acutirostris (Abbott). Hawaii. 



Murvena acutirostris Abbott, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1860, 476, Hawaii. 



Gymnothorax acutirostris Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 494, plate IS, Hawaii, same specimen. 



GYMNOTHORAX Bloch. Pusi. 



174. Gymnothorax eupterus (Giinther). Raoul I. 

 Mursena cuplera Giinther, Cat., vm, 122, 1870, Raoul I. 



175. Gymnothorax waialuse Snyder. Hawaii. 



Gymnothorax waialuse Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xxn, 1902 (1904), 520, pi. 6, Waialua (near Honolulu). 

 This species is known from a young example taken by Professor Snyder. It is very close to the 

 Japanese-East Indian species, Gymnothorax reticularis, but the arrangement of the sharply defined 

 black cross-bands is different, and the interspaces between the bands are pale, as in Chlevastes 

 colubrinus. 



176. Gymnothorax petelli (Bleeker). Hawaii; Samoa; East Indies. 



Murxna petelli Bleeker, Nat. Tijds., xi, 84. Java. Giinther, Cat., vm, 105, Java, Mauritius. 



Gymnothora petelli, Bleeker, Atlas, Murtenidae, 99, tab. xxxn. fig. 1. 



Murxna interrupta Kaup, Apodes, 67, fig. 51, 1854, Red Sea. 



Gymnothorax leucacme Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., xxn, 1902 (1903), 427, fig. 7, Honolulu. 



Of this handsome species we have 7 large specimens from Pago Pago and Apia. They agree 

 entirely with the accounts both of petelli and leucacme. 



Life colors of a specimen from Apia, dark brown, with 19 to 22 broad black cross-bars about as wide 

 as the interspaces; fins barred like body; interspaces on anal whitish, some of the dark bands reaching 

 the fin, others not; interspaces on dorsal pale, whitish on edge, each interspace with a large marginal 

 black spot; tip of the tail white (sometimes black); angle of mouth black; belly light brown, the bands 

 anteriorly not meeting across it (a dark spot sometimes between each pair of bands). 



177. Gymnothorax meleagris (Shaw). Samoa; Fiji; East Indies. 



Murxna meleagris Shaw, Nat. Misc., pi. 220, about 1802, Pacific. Giinther, Cat., vm, 100, Zanzibar, Java, Mauri- 

 tius, Fiji, Seychelles. 

 f Murumophis hauy Lacepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., v, 646, pi. VII, fig. 2, 1803; no locality. 

 Thyrsoidca chlorostiyma Kaup, Apodes, 89, 1854, Seychelles. 

 Gymnothorax chlorostigma Bleeker, Atlas, 97, tab. xxxiv, lig. 2, East Indies. 



nThis species, Enchelynassa canina, is said to be black, with very long needle-like teeth, and tubular nostrils. The 

 type was only 7.5 inches long, and from the description is probably the young of Enchelynassa bleekeri. 



