1172 
Depth 12 7/8; head 9 1/4, 4 to vent, head width 24/5 
in its length; combined head and trunk 1 1/4 in tail. Snout 
5 1/4 in head; eye 10, 1 4/5 in snout, 1 1/2 in interorbital; 
mouth cleft extends 2 eye diameters beyond eye, length 2 1/8 
in head; teeth in jaws uniserial, none on vomer and no medial 
fangs on premaxillary, largest medio-latterally; interorbital 
8, broadly and slightly convex with median depression. Gill 
opening 1 1/5 in eye. 
Dorsal origin midway in postrictal space, fin high or 
much higher than anal. 
Brown, with many pale small crowded pale or whitish ir¬ 
regular spots, only separated by reticulated lines on head 
and trunk, though on latter spots little larger and reticula¬ 
tions resulting more wide. On tail whitish lines become still 
coarser and define irregular broad dark cross bands, also re¬ 
flected on, vertical fins. Gill opening with narrow neutral 
dusky or black border. Iris pale or yellowish brown. 
Zanzibar, Natal, Rui Kui, Hawaii. My example greatly re¬ 
sembles Gtinthehfe figure, which however does not show any gill 
opening, Gtinther also describes the "upper jaw with a cluster 
of five or six slightly curved teeth in front (the hindermost 
being the longest)" and also shows them on his plate, a condi¬ 
tion not present In my specimen. 
