PISCES APODES. MURzENA. 
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No. XXXV. 
MuRiENA pintiis carens. 
The Murasna without fins. 
Called by the Natives Dondoo Paum. 
The body roundish, eel-form, covered with a coriaceous skin, and terminating in a very small sharp-pointed 
tail. 
The head very little broader than the neck, oblong, depressed above, compressed, or rounded on the sides, 
smooth; the rostrum short, obtuse. 
The mouth of a moderate size; the lips simple; the jaws of equal length, set with a regular row of small 
teeth, but in the fore part of the under jaw, there are several rows, and in the palate two diverging rows. The 
tongue narrow, ovate, smooth, free. 
The eyes very small, lateral, round. A single nostril near each orbit, but the subject having been sometime 
dead, no tubulous nostrils were observed at the rostrum. The opercula oblong ; the aperture small, gular, 
semi-lunate; the branchial membrane, consisting of six rays, cannot be seen without dissection. 
The trunk eel-form to the tail, which is somewhat compressed, and tapers to a small point. No lateral line; 
the anus remote. 
The Jins. No vestige of fins whatever. 
The colour universally black. 
Feet. Inches. 
The length from the rostrum to the anus - l 6 
of the tail ------- o 5 
REMARK. 
It was taken in the Ankapilly lake. This does not seem to be the Muraena Caeca, of Linnaeus, S. N. p. 42 6. 
No. XXXVI. 
Mur .an a rostro longiore; pinna caada dorsali analique unita. 
The Mur.<ena with a long rostrum ; the caudal fin united with the dorsal and anal. 
Called by the Natives Taloo Paum. 
This fish was taken in a net, in the month of June, near Waltier. I had no opportunity of having a drawing 
made, and described it on the beach. 
The trunk was rounder and more taper, than that of the Eel; till near the tail, where it became depressed; 
no scales, smooth, and of a shining golden colour. The circumference eight inches. 
The fins. The pectoral very small, the dorsal rose from the hind head, and was continued to the tail; the 
anal, one half shorter, joined the caudal, which being partly torn, its shape could not be determined. 
The head somewhat conical, smooth, depressed on the front, and elongated into a very long rostrum. The 
