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In life the irregular dark areas are dark brown, with chrome-yellow spots, the bars between these 
dark areas gray and brown; anterior tubular nostril orange; iris orange. An example from Hilo, gray 
with black spots and bands almost meeting on the belly, and quite meeting on the tail; spots of deep 
yellow in the black spots, those of belly edged with yellow; anterior nostril orange; snout and chin 
livid brownish; vent deep yellow, border of ljns grayish white, like tip of tail. 
The natives say that this eel goes ashore in the grass, wriggling quickly to the water again when 
disturbed. They also claim that it is savage and will bite. 
We have a number of specimens from Honolulu, Hilo, and Kailua. Dr. Jenkins obtained one 
from Honolulu, in 1889, which we have examined, and the Albatross obtained one at Honolulu in 1902. 
The species is very common at Samoa. 
Murxna nebnlosa Ahl, De Murwna et Ophichtho, Thumb. Dissert., Ill, 5, pi. 1, fig. 2, 17H9, East Indies. 
Gymnotlwmx nebulosus, Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 528, 1801; after Ahl. 
Gymnotliorax echidna Bloch & Schneider, Syst. Ichth., 52C, 1801, Huahia; Tahiti. 
Murxna aphis Riippell, Atlas zu der Reise im Nordl. Afrika, 116, taf. 29, fig. 2, 1828, Red Sea. 
Thxrodontis aphis, McClelland, Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist., V, 1844, 217. 
Echidna variegata Forster in Lichtenstein, Descript. Animal., 181, 1844, seas Huahainam; Bolam-Bolam; Tonga-Tabu. 
Murxna varicgata, Richardson, Voy. Ereb. & Terror, Fish., 94, pi. 47, figs. 1-5 and 11-10, 1846 (Indian Ocean; Chinese Sea; 
coasts of Australia). 
Pcccilophis varicgata, Kaup, Cat. Apod. Fish. Brit. Mus., 98, tab. 13, fig. 67, 1856; after Richardson. 
Murxna nebnlosa, Gunther, Cat., VIII, 130, 1S70 (Port Natal; Zanzibar; Madagascar; Seychelles; India; Moluccas; Amboyna; 
Macassar; Siam; China Seas: Fiji; Trinity Bay; Australia). 
Echidna nebnlosa, Jenkins, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Sept. 23. 1903), 429 (Honolulu); Snyder, op. cit. (Jan. 19, 
1904), 520 (Honolulu). 
Genus 59. UROPTERYGIUS Ruppell. 
This genus contains most of those morays with fins altogether wanting, or developed only at the 
tip of tail; teeth small, pointed, subequal, the mouth of moderate size, and only the anterior nostrils 
provided with a tube. The typical species have the tail about as long as the rest of the body. 
Gymnomurxna Lacdpcde, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, 648, 1803 ( doliata=marmorata ); restricted first by Kaup in 1856 to doliata, 
which is an Echidna. 
Ichlhyopwjs Lesson, Voy. de la Coquille, II, 131, 1830 (panlherinus= marmoratus)-, not of Fitzinger 1829, a genus of reptiles. 
Uroplerygius Riippell, Ncue Wirb., Fische, 83, 1838 ( eoneolor ). 
Sculica Jordan & Evermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., I, 403, 1896 ( necturus ). 
a. Posterior nostril with elevated rim; jaws equal; no dorsal fin evident marmoratus, p. Ill 
aa. Posterior nostril without rim; jaws unequal; dorsal fin evident on tail leucurus, p. 112 
72. Uropterygius marmoratus (Lacepede). Fig. 33. 
Head 2.25 in trunk; tail longer than head and trunk by a little less than half of head; eye 2.3 in 
snout, 2 in interorbital space; snout 5.67 in head; interorbital space 7.5; mouth 2.5. 
Body compressed; tail tapering gradually behind to a rather thick point; head rather large, 
compressed, obtusely pointed; snout long, pointed, the tip blunt; eye small, a little nearer tip of snout 
than corner of mouth ; mouth with thick lips concealing the teeth; teeth large and sharp pointed, 
biserial in the jaws, the outer series much smaller and more numerous than the inner, which are 
