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a. Color, brown, with conspicuous white spots intermingled with black and brown spots; a row of white spots crossing 
the ventral line. 
6. The white spots in three longitudinal rows, the brown spots irregularly scattered lampra , p. 89 
66. The white spots smaller, forming more or less distinct vertical rows; dark brown spots in 2 longitudinal rows. 
kauila, p. 90 
aa. Color, brown, with line yellow and blackish spots and reticulating lines kailuse, p. 88 
43. Muraena kailuse Jordan & Evermann. Plate 9 and Figs. 20 and 21. 
‘ ‘ Puhi on “ Puhi kauila. ’ ’ 
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 
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Fro. 20 . — Mursena kailuse Jordan & Evermann. Type of M. lampra Jenkins. 
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 dorsal 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; abroad, 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 
