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depressible; vomerine teeth in a single median series; anterior nostrils in short tube, the posterior 
pair with elevated rims; interorbital space elevated; no tins, except an obsolete-rayed development 
around end of tail. 
Color in alcohol, dark blackish brown above, paler beneath, marked all over with indistinct 
blackish reticulations; chin pale brown, somewhat soiled. 
One adult (No. 03730) 1 1 inches long was obtained by Mr. Goldsborough at Kailua, Hawaii, and 
about a score of young individuals 1.3 to 4.72 inches long were dredged or taken in the tangles by the 
Albatross off the south coast of Molokai and between Maui and Lanai in 21 to 4(1 fathoms. In life the 
young are dark brown, the throat and lower jaw much lighter, almost white in some specimens, there 
being no dark markings as in the adult. The mucous pores on the head are white. 
,Gymnomurxna marmorata Laeepede, Hist. Nat. Poiss., V, G48, 650, 1803, coast of New Britain. 
Ichthyophis panther iniis Lesson, Voy Coq., Poiss., II, 131, 1826-1830, Oualan, Caroline Islands. 
fMunvna micropterus Bleeker, Nat. Tvds. Ned. Ind., Ill, 298, 1852, Wahai, southern Ceram. 
? Uroplcryrjius xanthoptcrus Bleeker, Nat. Tvds. Ned. Ind., XIX, 350, 1859, Patjitan, southeast Java. 
tGywnomursena xanthopterus Bleeker, Atlas, IV, 114, pi. 20, fig. 4, 1864. 
fGymnomuricna micropterus , Bleeker, op. ci t . , 115, pi. 20, fig. 2, 1864. 
fGymiioinuruma macrocephalus Bleeker, Ned. Tyds. Dierk., 11, 54, 1865, Amboyna. 
Uropterygius murmoratus, Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Jan. 19, 1904), 521 (Albatross Stations 3847, 3850, 
3872, 3876). 
73. Uropterygius leucurus Snyder. Plate 13, fig. 2. 
Head, measured to gill-opening, 8.3 in length; tail 1.9; depth 2.6 in head; snout 5; cleft of mouth 
2.9; lower jaw shorter than upper, tip extending to base of nostril tubes; teeth of jaws in 2 series, 
outer ones small and close set, inner ones fang-like and widely spaced; a median, depressible fang in 
upper jaw; a single row of sharp teeth on vomer; anterior nostrils with tubes equal in length to 
diameter of eye; posterior nostrils without rims, located above eyes; eye located above middle of 
cleft of mouth; gill-opening a horizontal slit equal to diameter of eye. The dorsal fin becomes evident 
at a point about half the length of head from tip of tail, being represented anteriorly by a mere fold 
of the skin which extends to occiput; caudal pointed; a mere trace of an anal which joins the caudal. 
Color brown, finely spotted above with white; ventrally the spots become elongate and unite, 
also increasing in size until on the belly the color is white with tine reticulations of brown; upper 
parts with figures formed by the union of elongate spots; end of snout, upper lip, lower jaw, and 
throat white; fin around end of tail white. 
This species resembles the young of U. marmoratus. It differs in color, that form being neither 
spotted nor otherwise figured with white. The jaws of U. marmoraius are equal, and no dorsal fin is 
evident on the tail. 
One specimen, 4.3 inches long, was taken in 28 fathoms of water, station 3874, between Maui and 
Lanai. Type, No. 50871, U. S. Nat. Mus. 
Uropten/i/ius leucurus Snyder, Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., XXII, 1902 (Jan. 19, 1904), 521, pi. (i, fig. 12, Albatross Station 3874 , 
between Maui and Lanai. 
Genus 60. SCUTICARIA Jordan & Snyder. 
This genus differs from Uropterygius in having the posterior nostrils in tubes. 
MunenMemia Kaup, Cat. Apod. Fish., 97, 185G ( tigrina ): not of Lacepede, 1803, which is Mi/xine. 
Scuticaria Jordan & Snyder, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, 1901, 880 (tigrina). 
74. Scuticaria tigrina (Lesson). Plate 22. 
Head 6.4 in trunk; tail a little over 2 in head and trunk; eye 2.8 in snout, 2.5 in interorbital 
space'; snout a little over 7 in head; mouth a little over 3. 
Body very elongate, round; tail compressed, tapering a little posteriorly to a very blunt and 
rounded tip; head round, blunt in front; snout round and blunt; eye very small, nearer tip of snout 
than corner of mouth; mouth nearly horizontal, jaws even; lips thick and tough; teeth all sharp- 
pointed, 2 series 111 upper jaw of which the inner are the larger, mandible with a short double series 
m front, those^on vomer in a single series; anterior nostrils in short tubes nearer tip of snout, and 
posterior also in short tubes above anterior margins of eyes; interorbital space elevated and convex; 
gill-opening equal to eye; skin thick and tough, with a few mucous pores on head; no fins. 
