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Herpetoiclithys sulcatus Kaup, Apodes, 8, fig. 5 (not 6) (no habitat). 
Uranichthys brack ycephalus Poey, Reperoorio, n, 257, 1867 (Cuba); Poey, Synopsis, 
426, 1865 ; Poey, Enumeratio, 155, 1875. 
Habitat: West Indian fauna. 
Etymology : v 0<piq, snake. 
This species is known to us from descriptions only. We follow Dr. 
Gunther in placing sulcatus and hrachycephalus in the synonymy of 
havannensis. It may be that the unidentified old name of opkis belongs 
to this species, rather than to Ophichthus regius or to Mystriophis inter- 
tinctus , both of which, like 0 . havannensis , have the coloration ascribed 
to Murcena ophis. There can be little doubt that the specimen very 
well figured by Willughbyis a species of Ophichthus. The figure of 
Bloch, on which the names guttatus and maculosa have been founded, 
seems to have been identical with the figure of Willughby. 
65. OFHICHTHtJS retropinnis. 
Ophichthys retropinnis Eigenmaun, Proo. U. S. Nat. Mus.. 116, 1887 (Pensacola, Fla.). 
Habitat: Gulf of Mexico. 
Etymology : Latin, retropinnis , having backward fins. 
This species is based on a single specimen taken from the stomach 
of some large fish from the Snapper Banks near Pensacola; it seems 
allied to Ophichthus ocellatus , but the dorsal is much farther back than 
usual, and the teeth are different. These characters have been verified 
by Dr. Bean, who has kindly reexamined Dr. Eigenmann’s type for us. 
66. OPHICHTHUS GUTTIFER. 
Ophichthys guttifer Bean & Diesel, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 100, 1882 (Pensacola); 
Jordan, Cat. Fish. N. A., 53, 1885. 
Habitat : Gulf of Mexico. 
Etymology : Gutta , spot ; /ero, I bear. 
This species is as yet known only from a few specimens obtained from 
the stomachs of large groupers on the Snapper Banks near Pensacola. 
The single large example before us was obtained by Mr. Silas Stearns. 
The species is very close to 0 . ocellatus , from which it differs slightly in 
form and in the insertion of its dorsal. Possibly a large series would 
show it to be a variation of 0 . ocellatus. 
67. OPHICHTHUS OCELLATUS. 
Murenopliis ocellatus Le Sueur, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, 103, pi. 4, fig. 3, 1825 
(South Apierica.) ( fide Gunther). 
Ophisurus ocellatus Richardson, Voyage Erebus and Terror, Fishes, 104, 1844 (Mexico) 
(Me Gunther). 
Murwnopsis ocellatus Kaup, Apodes, 1856. 
Ophichthys ocellatus Gunther, vm, 63, 1870 (Mexico) ; Jordan & Gilbert, Syn. Fish. 
N. A., 359, 1883. 
Herpetoiclithys ocellatus Goode & Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 155, 1879 (Pensacola). 
Opliisurus remiger Valenciennes, in D’Orbigny Voy. Ani6r. M6rid., Poiss., pi. 12, fig. 
2, 1839 (fide Gunther). 
