610 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
35. MCJRJELN A. ARGUS. 
Gymnothorax ( Limamurcena ) argus Steindacliner, Ich. Notizen, x, 17, tab. iv, 18/0 
(Altata, Mexico). 
Habitat : Pacific Coast of Mexico. 
Etymology: Argus , hundred-eyed, from the coloration. 
This species is known to us from the description and figure of Stein- 
dachner. 
36. MURiENA RET1FERA. 
Murosna retifera Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 435, 1882 (Charleston, S. C.) ; 
Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. F. N. A., 894, 1883 (Charleston) ; Jordan, Cat. F. N. 
, A., 51, 1885 (Charleston). 
Habitat: South Atlantic coast of United States. 
Etymology : Bete , net ; fero , I bear. 
This species is known only from two or three large specimens ob- 
tained in the market at Charleston, South Carolina. The individual 
before us was sent by Mr. Charles C. Leslie. 
37. MURiENA LENTXGINOSA. 
(Morena Pinta ; Spotted Moray.) 
Murcena lentiginosa Jenyns, Voy. Beagle, Zool., 143, 1842 (Galapagos Islands) ; Gun- 
ther, viii, 99, 1870 (Central America). 
Murcena pinta Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. ,277, 1881 (Amortajada Bay, 
San Josef Island (name only) ; Jordan & Gilbert, ibid, 345, 1881 (Mazat- 
lan); Jordan & Gilbert, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 371, 1882 (Colima); Jordan 
& Gilbert, ibid, 381 (Panama); Jordan, Bull. U. S. Fish Com., 106, 1882; 
Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 369, 1885 (Mazatlan), 
Habitat: Pacific coast of America from the Gulf of California to 
the Galapagos. 
Etymology: Lentiginosus , freckled. 
This species is rather common on the Pacific coast of tropical Amer- 
ica. The specimen is from Colima. Another specimen, without locality, 
is much brighter in color with larger spots, but it apparently belongs to 
the same species. There is not much room for doubt that lentiginosa is 
identical with the common form later described as pinta. 
38. MURiENA MELANOTIS. 
Limamurcena melanotis Kaup, Aale Hamb. Mus., 27, tab. 4, fig. 3, 1859 ( fide Gunther). 
Murosna melanotis Gunther, viii, 98, 1870 (Cape Verde Islands; Pacific coast of Pan- 
ama) ; Steindachner, Fische Afrikas, 33, 1881 (Gorea) ; Jordan & Gilbert, 
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 624, 1882 (Panama) ; Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. F. N. A., 
355,1883 (copied); Jordan, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 369, 1885. 
Habitat: Tropical parts of the Atlantic. 
Etymology : M£Xaq, black ; ouq, ear. 
Of this species we have three specimens from “ South America.” A 
large specimen from Panama was identified by us in 1882 with this spe- 
cies, but without further comparison we do not feel sure of the identity 
of this individual with the original melanotis from the Atlantic. 
