492 SEALK. 



in a single series in each jaw. Three large median canines anteriorly, 

 no teeth on shafts of vomer except a few small ones at its extreme posterior 

 end. Posterior jiostrils consisting of a large round pore situated just 

 above the anterior half of iris, anterior nostrils consisting of two tubes 

 at extremity of snout, their length about two-thirds of eye. Between 

 the nostrils, the skin on sides of snout has a loose fold capable of dilata- 

 tion. Dorsal fin is low, beginning slightly anterior to gill opening, 

 which is of moderate size, being about equal to eye. Origin of anal fin 

 at anal pore, fins are low, the dorsal the highest, its longest rays being 

 almost equal to snout. The fins are continuous around caudal. 



Color in life, brown with irregular-shaped black blotches, which assume 

 the form of irregular, broken vertical bands slightly less than inter- 

 spaces. Head has a distinct elongate white mark between eye and gape 

 of mouth, this wliite stripe penetrates the lower portion of a large 

 blackish blotch bordering the posterior portion of eye; another short 

 white stripe from anterior border of eye to middle of maxillary. A black 

 blotch in angle of jaws which is bordered anteriorly by an elongate white 

 stripe on the mandible. A dusky area crossing near the posterior portion 

 of lower jaws, this area with a white median line. Throat crossed with 

 narrow white lines, pores of jaws white, the fins are barred with bla-ck. 



Color in alcohol similar but slightly faded. 



Type is No. 4445, a specimen from Zamboanga. Mindanao, P. I., 16 

 June, 1908. Length, 38.5 millimeters. 



Gymnothorax samalensis Seale, sp. nov. 



Head 3.80 in body; body is shorter than tail by a distance equal to 

 under jaw; gape of mouth 2.70 in head; snout 6.75 in head; eye 1.25 

 in snout; inferorbital space, jueasured to include soft portion, is equal 

 to eye; posterior nostrils round, pore-like; openings of nostril just above 

 eye; anterior nostrils consisting of two rather long tubes at end of snout, 

 , their length about two-thirds of eye. Teeth of upper jaw in a single 

 series except in front where there are several enlarged canines, four 

 enlarged depressible ones in the median line; vomerine series single, 

 about 10 in number, short and rounded. Teeth on lower jaw in a single 

 series except in front, where there are about five or six enlarged depres- 

 sible canines on each side. Origin of dorsal, a distance equal to length 

 of snout in front of gill openings. Origin of anal directly back of 

 anal pore, the fins of moderate length. 



Color in alcohol brownish with indistinct darker cross-bands, more 

 numerous and distinct on posterior of tail, almost obliterated anteriorly ; 

 belly and throat yellowish. A distinct white blotch on lower jaw just 

 in front of angle. A white spot on upper jaw below eye and another 

 halfway between eye and tip of snout ; these form rings around the mucous 

 pores. Three similar white spots on lower jaw. Top of head and snout 



