Mais je dois noter ici cjue M.-Kaup a commis la même erreur par rapport à l'Ophichlhys rutido- 
derma, l’Ophichthys rutidodermatoides et l’Ophichlhys MacCIellandi. 
L’Ophichlhys lumbricoides est remarquable par son corps extrêmement allongé, par le tronc 
mesurant deux fois dans la queue et par les dents inframaxillaires bisériales. Par cette den- 
tition, ainsi que par les dents trisériales du vomer, il se distingue de l’Ophichthys macrochir, 
qui du reste a aussi le corps beaucoup plusraccourci. Autrefois j’ai rapporté, quoique avec ré- 
serve, l’Ophisurus breviceps Cant. (non I’Ophisurus breviceps Rich. , qui est un vrai Ophisurus), 
à l’espèce actuelle, mais je le considère maintenant comme d’une espèce différente qui, à en juger 
d’après la description et la figure de Gant or-, s’en distingue par la rangée des dents palatines 
qui est double seulement en arrière, par l’insertion plus en avant de la dorsale qui commence 
au-dessus du sommet des pectorales par la fente de la bouche plus petite, etc. 
Ophichthys breviceps Blkr, Atl. Tab. CXCl fig. 4. Mur. XLVII tig. 4 (cop. ex Cant.). 
Descriptîo Cantoriana sequcns: 
„ The head is proportionally , very short, elongated cortical , terminating in a narrow truncated muzzle; the eye small; the body 
cylindrical, suddenly deepenîng beliind the anus, and slowly tapering towards the small blunt point of the tail. The length of the 
head is i/ 18 or a little less , of the total and contained 5 3 / 4 to 5 2 / 3 tîmes in the distance from the muzzle to the anus. The latter is 
sîtuated either in the middle of the third-eight or a little in front of its termination. The horizontal diameter of the small oval eye 
is contained ld’/î times in the length of the head; the distance across the forehead is 1 */ a diameter; that from the muzzle to the eye 
2 l /a sucli diameters. Tlie distance from the muzzle to the angle of the mouth is contained 3*/ a times in the length of the head. The 
upper jaw is a little less than one diameter of the eye longer than the lower. The nostrils and their lobulets, the pores of the head 
and the latéral line resemble those of Ophiurus boro. The very minute whitish pores beneath the latéral line are placed at a dis- 
tance from each other of two diameters of the eye. On the mesial line of the tip of the upper jaw appear two sériés, each consis- 
ting of three small pointed recurvous teeth. At a short distance behind the latter commences the sériés of the mesial line of the 
palate; the anterior teeth are a little stronger than the rest, and placed three deep, then two, and posteriorly in a single sériés of 
excessively minute teeth. On each side of the mesial sériés commences a single one of fine, pointed teeth, which is the internai 
sériés of the jaw; behind the posterior aperture of the nostril commences an external sériés of similar teeth. Those of the lower jaw 
resemble the latter, but they are throughout placed in a double sériés, except over the symphysis which is naked. The small elon- 
gated tongue is tied to the floor of the mouth; it is placed unusually far forwards and nearly extends to the anterior third of the 
cavity. The vertical diameter continues uniform from the occiput to the anus, varying in two individuals examined, from times 
in, to */ 4 of the length of tlie head, while their greatest diameters of the two anterior thirds of the tail vary from >/ 2 to »/ 3 of the 
head. The vertical diameter between the termination of the dorsal and anal is but two diameters of the eye, forming the base of 
the équilatéral triangular point of the tail. The small pectorals are from ^ of, to 3*/a times in the length of the head. The dorsal 
commences above the apex of the pectorals. Its distance from the root of the upper pectoral ray equals the length of the pectoral 
fin, and is 1/4 of its distance from the muzzle. The length of the dorsal rays is but »| 5 of the head. The anal rays are a little lon- 
ger. Head above and back greenish olive, lighter on the sides of the head and body, everywhere minutely dotted with black; throat 
and abdomen greenish white; dorsal greenish white, dotted and edged with black; pectorals and anal greenish white dotted with brown. 
Iris pale greenish golden, dotted with black. B. 31. D 448 to 480. A. 276 to 298. P. 13. Total length 2 ft 2 7 / 8 inch.” 
Syn. Ophiurus breviceps Cant. , Cat. Mal. Fish. p. 326 tab. 5 fig. 4 dentes (nec Ophisurus breviceps Iiich.). 
Hab. Pinang. 
Ophichthys MacCIellandi Blkr, Atl. Tab. CLIX lig. ‘2. Mur. XV fig. 2. 
Ophichth. corpore valde elongato cylindraceo, altitudine 45 circiter in ejus longitudine; capite eonvexo, acuto, 1 6>/ 2 circiter in lon- 
gitudine corporis, 5 et paulo in longitudine rostri apicem inter et anum , triplo circiter longiore quant alto; oculis diametro 10 circiter 
in longitudine capitis; rostro acuto eonvexo, oculo minus duplo longiore, vix longiore quant basi lato, apîce parum carnoso; naribus 
posterioribus vix ante oculum in labio superiore perforatîs, anterioribus tubulo oculo breviore; rictu post ocuïum producto, vix plus 
quant 3 in longitudine capitis; labio superiore papilla internasali conica; maxilla superiore quain maxilla inferiore multo longiore; den- 
tibus omnibus acutis, curvatis, subaequalibus ; dentibus palatinis apicem seriei dentalia vomerinae attingentibus biseriatis, utroque la- 
tere sérié externa 20 cire., sérié interna 12 cire.; dentibus nasalibus 5 vel 6 in sériés 2 parallelas dispositis; dentibus vomerinis 36 
cire., anticis quadriseriatis , posticis uniseriatis, anticis dentes nasales non attingentibus; dentibus inframaxillaribus biseriatis, utroque 
latere sérié externa 26 cire., sérié interna 16 cire.; apertura branchiali semilunari; cute longitudinaliter rugosula; linea laterali poris 
distantibus notata; cauda apice compressa coriacea non pungente; pinna dorsali i/ 3 capitis longitudinis post aperturam branchialem in- 
cipiente, corpore triplo circiter humiliore, postice emarginata, paulo ante apicem caudae desinente; pînnis pectoralibus rotundatis 3 cir- 
citer in longitudine capitis; anali postice in V A tertîa vel antice in 2a tertia corporis parte incipiente, corpore plus duplo humiliore, 
postice leviter emarginata, radiîs posticis radiis dorsalibus posticis oppositis; colore capite et dorso profunde viridi, ventre flavescente- 
viridi ; pinna dorsali flavescente- viridi fusco marginata ; pinnis pectoralibus viridescentibus ; anali aurantiaco-flava. 
B. 26. D. 437 cire. P. 13. A. 284 cire. 
Syn. Ophisurus MacCIellandi Blkr, Verh. Bat. Gen. XXV Muraen. p. 33. 
Pisoodonophis MacCIellandi Kp, Uebers. Aal. Arch. Naturg. XXII, I p. 48; Cat. Apod. Fish. p. 19. 
Hab. Java (Batavia), in mari. 
Longitudo specimims descripti 580'". 
Rem. Voisine de l’Ophichlhys rutidodermatoides, l’espèce actuelle s’en distingue cependant par 
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