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less than eye, If in isthmus. Color brown above, 
light yellow below ; opercular regions, lower jaw, 
throat, and pectoral dusky ; dorsal and anal edged 
with black Zophochir, 73. 
nn. Head rather long, 1 f to 21 in trunk. 
p. Tail long, about 2f times length of rest of body ; 
pectoral 2f in head; dorsal inserted over middle 
of pectoral ; gape 2f in head ; head If in trunk; 
-eye about 2f in snout. Blackish, paler below; 
dorsal and anal yellowish brown, dotted and bor- / 
dered with black Magnioculis, 74. 
pp. Tail shortish, If times rest of body ; head 2f in 
trunk ; pectoral about 3 in length of head ; cleft 
of mouth about 3 in head ; gill-openings very 
wide, wider than in related species, broader than 
the isthmus; eye in snout ; teeth rather small, 
biserial in both jaws ; fins low, the dorsal begin- 
ning over the end of the pectoral. Color uniform 
brown, paler below Callaensis, 75. " 
mm. [Eye small, about 2f times in the snout; gill-openings 
not very wide, approaching nearer together than 
usual in this genus; auterior nostril with an 
elongate tapering tube ; head 2 in trunk ; cleft of 
mouth 2§- in head ; eye 2f in snout ; pectoral 2f in 
head ; dorsal fin rather low, commencing above 
posterior third of pectoral ; tail twice as long as 
rest of body; coloration uniform.] (Gunther.) 
Parilis, 76. 
59. OPHICHTHUS HISPANUS. 
? ? Echelus rufus Rafiuesque, Carratteri, 65, 1810 (Palermo). 
?? Echelus polyrinus Rafinesque, Indice d’Ittiol. Sicil., 69, 1810 (Palermo), (may be 
Ophisoma halearicum) . 
Oplnsurus hispanus Belotti, Accad. Fisico-medico Stat. Milano, 1857, (Barcelona) (fide 
Gunther). 
Ophichtliys hispanus Giinther, viii, 72, 1870 (Cannes). 
Habitat : Mediterranean Sea. 
Etymology : Hispanus , Spanish, 
This species is known to us from a specimen sent by Professor Doder- 
lein from Palermo. Doderlein has identified this species with the Eclie - 
lus polyrinus of Rafinesque, although the description of the latter writer 
could not well be worse. The description of Echelus rtifus fits this species 
better, but the figure not at all. It is not impossible that both names 
were intended for young Congers, or perhaps for Ophisoma . The basis 
for the identification of Echelus polyrinus is apparently the common 
name 11 Gruncu di Rena,” given by Rafinesque and still used for this 
species at Palermo. 
60. OPHICHTHUS BRASILIENSIS. 
Centrurophis hrusiliensis Kaup, Apodes, 4, 1856 (Rio Janeiro). 
Ophichthys brasiliensis Giinther, viii, 73, 1870 (copied). 
Habitat : Coast of Brazil. 
