REPORT OK EISHES COLLECTED IK THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 
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other, closing only at tip; a few sharp, fixed teeth in anterior portions of jaws, the others all blunt; 
teeth in anterior portion of upper jaw sharp, in a single series; in the posterior portion a double series 
of blunt teeth, between which the roof of the mouth is crowded with blunt teeth, becoming as many 
as 0 series posteriorly; teeth in lower jaw in 2 series anteriorly, Decoming blunt posteriorly and appar- 
ently in 3 series; anterior nostril tubular, near tip of snout above margin of lip; posterior nostril 
smooth, near the middle of the upper margin of the eye. 
Color in life, uniform yellowish brown (not lighter on the belly), being distributed over the whole 
body in fine, granular markings; no transverse bands appearing in life, but evidence of bands, espe- 
cially toward tip of tail, appearing some hours after death; snout white, angles of mouth brown, iris 
yellow; no other conspicuous markings. 
The type measures 17 inches in total length; from vent to tip of tail, 8.4 inches; from tip of snout 
to vent, 8.7 inches. My collection contains 3 specimens, all from the reef in front of Honolulu. 
Type, No. 50844, U. S. N. M. (original No. 283), Honolulu; cotypes, No. 7783, L. S. Jr. Univ. Mus. 
(original No. 2368), 15.5 inches long, and No. 2752, U. S. F. C. (original No. 2369), 12 inches long. 
Fig. 9 . — Echidna Icihala Jenkins, new species. Type. 
21. Echidna nebulosa (Ahl). “Puhikapa.” 
Color in life, ground color white, on which is a series of about 26 black spots along sides of body 
and tail, these spots branching into very irregular reticulations; a bright yellow spot in the center of 
each black spot; the black lateral spots connected under belly with broad, black bands; on the belly 
are also occasional large round black spots not connected with the bands; a series of spots similar in 
size and shape to the lateral spots extending along dorsal fin; there is a black reticulated band around 
the head; iris golden; inferior nasal tubes orange. This is a brilliantly marked eel in life. 
The natives report that this species “goes ashore where it catches lizards ” and other prey. They 
regard it with some fear. 1 obtained but one specimen (No. 292), 22 inches in length. 
Murscna nebulosa Ahl, De Mursena et Ophichtho., Thunb. Dissert., in, 5, pi. 1, fig. 2, 1789, East Indies; Gunther, Cat., vm, 
130, 1870. 
Echidna varieyata Bleeker, Atlas, iv, 80, pi. clxviii, fig. 2. 
Echidna zonata Fowler, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, 459, pi. xviii, fig. 2, Hawaiian Islands (Type, No. 16484, Ac. Nat. 
Sci. Phila.). 
22. Echidna vincta Jenkins, new species. 
Head 7.2 in total length, or 3.75 in distance from tip of snout to vent; vent about midway between 
tip of snout and tip of tail; depth about 2.2 in head; eye 10 in head, 1.6 in snout, or 1 in interorbital 
space; length of mouth 2.7 in head; body moderately elongate, compressed, the tail strongly com- 
pressed and pointed; head swollen; mouth moderate, gape reaching beyond eye a distance equal to 
length of snout, lower jaw shorter than upper, curved so that the mouth does not close completely; 
teeth bluntly conic, in a single series in front in upper jaw, in 2 series laterally; teeth on vomer bluntly 
