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series of depresstble canines; teeth on lower jaw and vomer uniserial; 
eye 2 to 2\ in snout, situated over the middle of gape ; cleft of mouth 2£ 
to 3 in head ; head 2 to 2% in trunk Lentiginosa, 37. 
ee. Body scantily spotted ; angle of mouth black; a large black spot about 
gill-opening; cleft of mouth 2£ to 2\ in head; head 2£ to 2\ in trunk; tail 
a little longer than rest of body ; teeth of upper jaw anteriorly in two 
rows; canines moderate; color dark brown, with many small obscure 
whitish spots, these sometimes over whole body, sometimes confined to 
head and back anteriorly ; belly plain brown ; dark spot on gill-opening 
and at angle of mouth always conspicuous ; a pale spot on base of lower 
jaw before the dark one Melanotis, 38. 
del. Jaws curved along the gape so that they can not be completely closed ; lat- 
eral teeth of upper jaw biserial, the teeth of the inner series longer than 
those of the outer; vomerine teeth uniserial; the anterior vomerine 
teeth longest, nearly twice as long as any of the others ; mandibular 
teeth sometimes with two or three long teeth forming an inner mandibu- 
lar series; cleft of mouth very wide, its width contained in length 
of head ; length of head 2| in trunk ; eye 2\ in snout; tail longer than 
rest of body ; brownish black (in spirits); tail with numerous bluisli-white 
dark-edged dots the size of a-piu’s head, disappearing on anterior part of 
body ; inside of mouth brown with similar white dots. {Gunther.) 
Augusti, 39. 
33. MURiENA HELENA. 
(.Moray.) 
Murcena pinnis pectoralibus carens Artedi, Genera Piscium, 25, 1738 (Rome and Livorno). 
Murcena Helena Linuseus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 244, 1758 (based on Artedi) ; Gunther, vm, 
96, and of authors generally. 
Gym-nothorax murcena Bloch & Schneider, Systema Ichthyol., 525, 1801 (after Linnaeus). 
Muroena romana Shaw, Gen. Zool., iv, 26, lc03 (after Linnaeus). 
Muroena variegata Rafiuesque, Caratteri, etc., 67, 1810 (Sicily). 
Murcenophis fulva Risso, Ich. Nice, 367, L810 (Nice). 
Murcena guttata Risso, Eur. Mdrid., ill, 191, 1826 (Mediterranean Sea). 
Habitat : Mediterranean Sea and adjacent shores. 
Etymology : From Helena ; the allusion not clear. 
This species, the longest known of any in the family, is generally 
common in the waters of southern Europe. The specimens before us 
are from Palermo (Professor Doderleiu), Madeira (Dr. W. Stimpsou), 
Athens (Prof. H. A. Hoffman), and Naples (Prof. W. W. Norman). 
34. MURiENA INSULARU1>1. 
Murcena insularum Jordan & Davis, sp. nov, (Chatham Island). 
Habitat : Galapagos Archipelago. 
Etymology : Latin, of the islands. 
This species is based on No. 38300, U. S. National Museum, 20 inches 
long, collected by Dr. W. H. Jones at Chatham Island, of the Galapa- 
gos. The species resembles /¥. Helena , but differs much in color. 
H. Mis. 274 39 
