ley. This is in all, about six indic-^ in K'n,L;lli. h ;i|iii;iicntl\ ])v- 

 longcd ti) a vcvy h\yv;v nmi-ay with Idiij^ and -Icndrr jaw^. I'lic 

 posterior ])art of llir jaw has hrfii hrokrii. llir itTtli ohlilci-aU'd, 

 but on tbi' anliM-ioi- ]iart i> a fi i\\ of sloul. conical, sbai'p-poiiilcd 

 teeth, all iniiud fmwards, the Kni,flh of each nearly double the 

 interspace which separates it fnnn the next, ddiese teeth are all 

 of about e(|ual length, none of them enlarged or lancet-sha])ed. 

 In the space of two inches there are about forty teeth. The Ixjues 

 of the jaw are rather strongly striate. 



These jaws belong a])parently to the same species, which 

 seems to have been a large muraenoid eel or moray, allied to 

 the cosmo])olitan living genus Gyiniiotliorax (Lycodonlis) one 

 species of which, Gviiniothora.v niorda.v still abounrls cm the coast 

 of southern California. 



The new genus. Jh^/riiitdiis. may Ik- distinguished from 

 Gyiiniofliora.x' by the very long jaws and the peculiar dentition. 

 As to its nasal barbels and the insertion of the dorsal fin nothing 

 is known. 



1 have also another lower jaw of an eel, from Alhambra, abcjut 

 two inches long with a single row of sharp close-set teeth, those 

 behind a little shorter, some toward the front somewhat longer, 

 the teeth all sharp and turned forward. This may represent a 

 ditterent species. 



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