FISHES FROM THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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Family MUR/ENID7E. The Morays. 
3. Mursena kailuse Jordan & Evermann, new species. 
Head 7 in total length; depth 11.5; eye 14 in head; snout 6; interorbital 12; gape 2.75. 
Body short, stout, and moderately compressed; distance from tip of snout to vent less than that from 
vent to tip of tail by a distance equal to two-thirds length of head; head very small and pointed; snout 
long, quadrate, the jaws equal, the lower curved so that the mouth does not completely close; lips 
thin, the teeth showing; each side of upper jaw with a single series of unequal, sharpish canine-like 
teeth, inside of which is a single depressible fang-like tooth near middle of side; front of median line 
with 2 long, sharp, fang-like, depressible teeth; shaft of vomer with a single series of short, movable 
teeth; each side of lower jaw with a single series of unequal, sharp canines, those in front largest; eye 
small, midway between angle of mouth and tip of snout; anterior nostrils each in a pointed filament, 
whose length is about half that of eye, situated at tip of snout just above lip; posterior nostrils each 
with a long filament, equal to snout in length, and situated just above anterior edge of eye; inter- 
orbital space very narrow and flat; gill-opening small, nearly circular; dorsal fin very low anteriorly, 
increasing much in height on tail; anal low. 
Ground color in life, dark brown, with fine yellow and blackish spots and reticulating lines, the 
yellow predominating on anterior part of body; end of tail dark purplish brown; edge of dor'sal and 
anal dull dark red, with short pale bands bordered with darker and with small pale spots interspersed; 
ground color of cheek and throat yellow, with pale spots bordered with black; jaw orange red, with 
pale black-edged bars; tips of jaws bright coral red; tips of nostril filaments bright red. 
Color in alcohol, body with a ground color of light grayish brown, marked with fine whitish lines 
or specks, and profusely covered with numerous small, round, white spots, each ocellated with black; 
among these are scattered larger black spots and blotches; white spots smallest on back and largest on 
belly, where some are as large as eye; a broad, dark brown bar over nape, extending on side to level of 
eye; top of head and snout with fine white spots; side of snout with a well-defined vertical white bar 
about midway between eye and tip; a short white line downward to mouth from front of eye, and a 
similar longer one downward and backward from posterior lower angle of eye; lower jaw crossed by 
3 V-shaped white bars opening forward and bordered by darker; tip of jaw with 2 oblique white bars 
separated by a narrow brown line; last V-shaped white bar extending across angle of mouth and form- 
ing a large white area at base of upper jaw, behind which the angle of the mouth is dark brown; inside 
of mouth mottled brown and white; nasal filaments mottled with brown and white; throat light brown, 
with large white spots, some of which unite to form oblong spots or lines; gill-opening not surrounded 
by dark; anal fin dark brown, crossed by about 28 short white bars; posterior portion of tail crossed 
by about 12 distinct but somewhat irregular vertical white bars, which extend upon dorsal and anal 
fins; tip of tail brownish black, with 1 or 2 whitish specks. Only one specimen known. 
Type, No. 50614, IT. S. N. M. (field No. 03709), a specimen 19 inches long, obtained August 9, 
1901, by Messrs. Goldsborough and Sindo at Kailua, Hawaii. 
4. Gymnothorax vinolentus Jordan & Evermann, new species. 
Head 7.2 in total length, 3.6 in distance from tip of snout to vent; depth 14.5 in total length; eye 
14 in head; snout 6.4; gape 2; interorbital 8.6; vent a little nearer tip of snout than tip of tail. 
Body long, but stout and not greatly compressed; tail moderately stout and compressed; head 
much swollen above; snout long and slender, the anterior profile ascending somewhat abruptly from 
interorbital region; mouth large, extending beyond eye a distance equal to eye and snout; lower jaw 
projecting, strongly curved, so that the mouth does not completely close; eye small, over anterior half 
of gape; interorbital narrow, about half greater than diameter of orbit; anterior nostril in a tube whose 
length is 1.6 times eye, situated near tip of snout; posterior nostril slightly anterior to vertical at front 
of orbit, oval, surrounded by a narrow, raised, flattened flap whose diameter is two-thirds that of 
orbit; lips rather thin, not covering the teeth; gill-opening small, its length less than diameter of 
orbit. Teeth in a single series on each side of upper jaw, the posterior ones short, sharp, and close- 
set; the anterior ones, about 12 in number, slender, sharp canines of unequal length; inside of these is 
a series of 5 or 6 long, slender, depressible canines; median line of roof of mouth with 2 long, sharp, 
depressible canines in front, and a third somewhat farther back; vomer with a single series of short, 
blunt teeth; lower jaw with a single series of rather close-set, short, backwardly directed canines, 
somewhat compressed, inside of which anteriorly are 3 or 4 much longer depressible canines on each 
