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superiorem versus maculîs nigricantibus oblongis longitudinalibus; pinnis pectoralibus violaceis flavo marginatis basi et medio ocello 
flavo; pinna anali tota aurantiaca iramaculata. 
B. 16. D. 300 eirc. P. 15 cire. À. 160 cire, usque ad pinnae partem carinaeformem ubi non conspicui. 
Hab. Amboina, in mari. 
Longitudo speciminis unici 381"'. 
Rem. Cette espèce n’est pas moins brillante par ses couleurs que l’Ophichthys Bonaparlei, mais 
elle a le corps notablement plus raccourci. Du reste les caractères par lesquels elle se distingue 
de l’espèce précédente sont nombreux. Le museau proéminent , les tubes nasaux allongés, et la fente 
de la bouche relativement petite lui donnent une physionomie distincte et la distinction est en- 
core facilitée par les taches du corps et des nageoires, par l’insertion plus en avant du premier 
rayon dorsal, par le nombre des rayons de la dorsale, etc. Si le genre Poecilocephalus Kp était 
admissible , il en serait la deuxième espèce connue. 
Ophichthys Bernsteini Blkr, Ail. Tab. CLVIIf fig. 1. Mur. XXIV lig. \. 
Ophichth. corpore elongato cylindraceo, altitudine 42 circiter in ejus longitudine ; capite acuto convexo ll 2 / 5 circiter in longitudine 
corporis, 6 ad 6>/ 2 in longitudine rostri apicem inter et anurn ; altitudine eapitis 3*/ 2 circiter in ejus longitudine; oculis lateraliter 
spectantibus , diametro circiter in longitudine eapitis; rostro acuto convexo laevi, oculo minus duplo longiore, aeque longo 
circiter ac basi lato, apice parum carnoso; poris uniseriatis parum conspicuis utroque latere frontalibus maxillaribusque pluribus; 
naribus anterioribus tubulo lato oculo breviore, posterioribus vix ante oculum in labio superiore perforatis; labio superiore sub medio 
oculo et medio nares anteriores inter et posteriores lobulo cutaneo parvo gracili ; rictu sub oculi margine posteriore desinente 4 fere in 
longitudine eapitis; maxilla superiore quam maxilla inferiore multo longiore; dentibus omnibus conicîs acutis vel acutiusculis; dentibus 
nasalibus 4 vel 5 subbiseriatis longe a vitta dentium vomerina remotis; dentibus palatinis uniseriatis acutis leviter curvatis sub- 
aequalibus utroque latere 17 circiter; dentibus vomerinis acutiusculis dentibus ceteris brevioribus 26 circiter anterioribus biseriatis 
ceteris uniseriatis; dentibus inframaxillaribus acutis uniseriatis dentibus palatinis majoribus utroque latere 20 circiter, anterioribus 
quam ceteris paulo longioribus; maxilla inferiore depressa (plana); apertura branchîali semilunari; cute laevi; linea laterali tubulis 
simplicibus continuis et poris distantibus notata; cauda postice parutn compressa extremo apice cornea pungente; pinna dor- 
sali rictus longitudine circiter post aperturam branchialem incipiente, corpore plus duplo liumiliore postice paulo emarginata, 
apicem caudae versus corpore minus duplo humiliore obtuse rotundata radiîs posticis . radiis analibus posticis oppositis; pinna anali 
postice in 4 a septima corporis parte incipiente (antice in 4* sexta parte) dorsali vix liumiliore, postice paulo emarginata apicem caudae 
versus corpore minus duplo humiliore obtusangula; pinnis pectoralibus acute rotundatis 3 et paulo in longitudine eapitis; colore 
corpore superne fuscescente* olivaceo , inferne dilutiore ; pinnis aurantiacis plus minusve fuscescentibus. 
B. 26. D 335. A. 184. P. 12 vel 13. 
Syn. Muraenopsis Bernsteini Blkr, Trois, mém. faun. Ichth. Halmah. , Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. I p. 157. 
Hab. Halmahera (Galela) , in mari. 
Longitudo speciminis unici 600'". 
Rem. Voici encore une espèce d’Ophichthys à tronc plus long que la queue et à dents palati- 
nes et inframaxillaires disposées sur une simple rangée; mais elle se distingue essentiellement par 
l’absence de taches et de bandes, par l’échancrure des nageoires dorsale et anale, par les dents 
vomériennes bisériales, par les pectorales beaucoup plus grandes, etc. Je l’ai dédiée à M.- A. 
Bernstein, qui l’a découverte lors de son voyage sur la côte orientale de file de Halmahéra. 
Ophichthys grandoculis Blkr, Atl. Tab. CXCI lig. 5. Mur. XLVIt lig. 5 (cop. ex Cant.). 
Descriptio Cantoriana sequens: 
The head is elongated with a conical , somewhat bluntly pointed muzzle , the general form of the body resembles that of Ophisurus 
boro. The length of the head to the gill-opening is contained ll 1 ^ to ll 3 / 4 times in the total, but 4‘/ 2 to 4 2 / 3 times in the distance 
front the muzzle to the anus. The eye is comparatively large, its horizontal diameter varying from */u to i/j 3 of the length of the 
head; the distance from the mu»zle 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 con- 
tained 3*/ 2 times in the lenght of the head; the lower jaw is half a diameter of the eye shorter than the upper. The nostrils , lobu- 
lets, pores of the head and of the latéral line, as well as the latter itself, resemble those of O. boro. The middle of the tip of 
the upper jaw has two close sériés of subulate teeth ; in the young each sériés consists of 3 to 4 , but one half of them appear to 
vanish with âge, when those remaining become stronger and blunter. At a short distance behind these commence the double sériés 
of teeth of the mesial line of the palate ; those of the anterîor half are longer than the rest , and become subulate with âge ; 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 me- 
sial line without coalescing with them; they are placed' in a single sériés, are small, pointed or subulate. Those of the lower jaw 
are also in a single sériés, subulate, and they decrease from the symphysis, on which there is a toothless interval between the sériés 
of both branches. The tongue is small elongated and tied to the floor of the mouth , of which it occupies the posterior third. The 
vertical diameter at the occiput is i/ 3 of, the greatest of the body is contained 2*/» times in the length of the head, while that between the 
terminations of the dorsal and anal equals the diameter of the eye and forms the base of the triangular tip of the tail each of the sides 
of whîch is two diameters of the eye. The dorsal commences above the posterior third of the pectorals. The 'distance from the root 
of the upper pectoral ray to the dorsal is 4 2 / 3 to 5 times in that from the muzzle to the dorsal; the general length of the dorsal 
rays is contained 5 '/ 3 times in the head; but immediately before the termination of the fin, the rays suddenly inerease in length, 
and are but 4 , / 2 times in the head. Such is also the case with the anal, which resembles the dorsal. The anus is situated a little 
in front of the end of the third- fifth of the total length. The pectorals are elongated, ] /3 of the length of the head. 
