SOUTHERN MURJENA. 



Muraena Echidna. M . fusca, nigro mriegata, capite depresso, 



collo turgidissimo. 

 Brown Muraena, with black variegations, depressed head, and 



very turgid neck. 

 Muraena Echidna. M. pinnis pectoralibus nullis, capite depresso, 



corpore fusco nigroque vario, statim pone caput turgidissimo, 



Lin. Syst. Nat, Gmel.p. 1135. ^ 



Native of the Southern ocean : grows to a large 

 size, measuring from four to five feet in length and 

 being of a very considerable thickness : the head is 

 small and depressed, but the neck immediately 

 beyond the occiput swells into a very large size, 

 -and again diminishes at the commencement of the 

 body : the eyes are small ; the mouth wide, and 

 furnished with numerous sharp teeth. The flesh is 

 said to be excellent, but the animal has a peculiarly 

 forbidding appearance on account of its colours 

 and form. 



SPECKLED MUR-ffiNA. 



Muraena Meleagris. M. nigricans, maculis creberrimis albis 

 irrorata. 



Blackish Muraena, very thickly speckled with white. 

 Muraena Meleagris. Speckled Eel. Nat, Miscell. pi, 220. 



Described from a specimen in the British Mu- 

 seum, Length about two feet : colour deep-brown, 



