1306 Catalogue of Malayan Fishes. [Dec. 



Single individuals are taken along the coasts of Pinang at irregular 

 intervals. 



B. With pointed teeth; 



Ophiurus grandoculis, Cantor. 

 Plate V. Fig. 3, (Magnified.) 



Ground-colour of head back and sides yellowish white, minutely 

 and closely vermiculated with brown, and dotted with black, so as to 

 produce a general brownish appearance, lighter on the sides ; abdomen 

 white ; fins greyish white ; minutely dotted with black ; dorsal and 

 posterior half of anal edged with black. Iris pale golden, dotted with 

 black. 



D 251 to 258, A 152 to 167, P 15, Br. XXXI. 



Habit. — Sea of Pinang. 



Total length : 1 foot 6f inch. 



The head is elongated with a conical, somewhat bluntly pointed muz- 

 zle, the general form of the body resembles that of O. boro. The length 

 of the head to the gill-opening is contained 11} to 1 If times in the total, 

 but \\ to 4f times in the distance from the muzzle to the anus. The eye 

 is comparatively large, its horizontal diameter varying from TT to -^ of 

 the length of the head ; the distance from the muzzle to the eye is two 

 diameters ; the eye itself occupies nearly the whole space between the 

 lip and the profile ; the distance across the forehead equals one diameter. 

 The distance from the muzzle to the angle of the mouth is contained 3^ 

 times in the length of the head ; the lower jaw is half a diameter of the 

 eye shorter than the upper. The nostrils, lobulets, pores of the head and 

 of the lateral line, as well as the latter itself, resemble those of O. boro. 

 The middle of the tip of the upper jaw has two close series of subulate 

 teeth ; in the young each series consists of 3 to 4, but one half of them 

 appear to vanish with age, when those remaining become stronger and 

 blunter. At a short distance behind these commence the double series 

 of teeth of the mesial line of the palate ; those of the anterior half are 

 longer than the rest, and become subulate with age ; on the posterior 

 half the teeth are much smaller, and placed three deep. The teeth of 

 the jaw commence on each side of those of the mesial line without 

 coalescing with them ; they are placed in a single series, are small, 

 pointed or subulate. Those of the lower jaw are also in a single series, 



