APODAL FISHES OF AMERICA AND EUROPE. 
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Etymology: Living in Brazil. 
This species is known to us from Kaup’s description only. He places 
it in his genus Centrurophis , which is characterized chiefly by the ter- 
mination of the tail in a translucent thorny tip. 
61. OPHICHTHUS MACULATUS. 
Cogrus maculatus Rafinesque, Caratteri, G2, 1810 ( maculatus ). 
Ophisurus pictus Swainsou, Fish., Rep., and Ampli., ii, 395, 1839 (Sicily). 
Centrurophis rernicaudus Kaup, Apodes, 3, 1856 (Sicily). 
Opliichthys rernicaudus Gunther, vm, 73, 1870 (copied). 
Habitat : Mediterranean Sea. 
Etymology : Maculatus , spotted. 
This rare species is known to us from descriptions only; as it seems 
to be Eafinesque’s Cogrus maculatus , we have restored his specific name. 
62. OPHICHTHUS ATER. 
Ophichihys ( Herpetoichthys ) ater Peters, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss., 525, 1866 (Chile). 
Ophichthys ater Giiuther, vm, 68, 1870 (copied). 
Habitat : Coast of Chile. 
Etymology : Latin, black. 
This species is known to us only from Peters’ description. 
63. OPHICHTHUS PUNCTICEPS. 
Cryptopterus puncticeps Kaup, Aale Hamb. Mas., ii, tab. 1, fig. 2, 1859 (Puerto Ca- 
bello) ( fide Giiuther). 
Ophichihys puncticeps Gunther, vm, 60, 1870 (copied), 
Habitat : Caribbean Sea. 
Etymology : Functus , speckled ; ceps, head. 
This species is known to us from Kaup’s description, as quoted by 
Giiuther. 
64. OPHICHTHUS HAVANNENSIS. 
? Serpens marinus maculosus Willughby, Hist. Pise., tab. G 9, 1686 (no locality). 
TMurcena ophis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, 1758 (after Willughby) (and of the copyists); 
(may be identical with Ophichthus regius, a St. Helena species, likewise 
spotted with black). 
? Ophichthus ophis Alii, De Muraena et Ophichtho, 81, 1789 (generic description). 
f Murcena ophis Bloch, Ichthyologia, tab. 154, 1790 (Suriuam f). 
? Ophisurus ophis Lac^pede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., n, 1800 (after Bloch, as is shown by 
the enumeration of fin rays). 
1 nnominado Parra, Dif. Piezas Hist. Nat., pi. 37, fig. 2, 1787 (Havana). 
Murcena havannensis Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ich., 491, 1801 (alter Parra). 
Ophisurus havannensis Poey, Mcmorias, ii, 320, 1860 (Cuba). 
Uranichthys havannensis Poey, Repertorio, ii, 257, 1866; Poey, Synopsis, 426, 1868; 
Poey, Enunieratio, 155, 1875 (Cuba). 
Ophichihys havannensis Giiuther, vm, 67, 1870 (Cuba). 
? Ophisurus guttatus Cuvier, Regue Animal, 1817, 232 (Suriuam) (after Bloch, pi. 154). 
? Murcena maculosa Cuvier, 1. c. (after Ophisurus ophis Lac^pede, which is based on 
Bloch, pi. 154). 
