1174 
Lycodontls plcta (Ahl) 
Muraena plots AHL, Specimen. Ichth. Ophlchth. Thunberg, 
1789, p. 8, pi., right fig. East India, — GUNTHER, 
Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 384. — PETERS, Monatsb, 
Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1868, p. (Samar). — GUNTHER, 
Cat. Fishes Brit. Mus., vol. 8, 1870, p. 116 (Zanzi¬ 
bar, type of JSucaaQfi JLita, East Indies, Sumatra, Am- 
boina, Borneo, type of Muraena pfelfferl and Muraena 
.slderea. 1 Australia, Samoa, Fiji). — MARTENS, Preuss. 
Exped. Ost-Asian, vol. 1, 1876, p. 406 (Ambon River; 
Buru). •— PETERS, Monatsb. Akad, Wiss. Berlin, 1876 
(1877), p. 850 (N ew Hannover), STREETS, Bull. U. 
S. Nat. Mus., No. 7, 1877, p, 93 (Palmyra Island). 
-- day, Fishes of India, pt. 4, 1878, p. 672, pi. 172 
fig. 4. —» SCHMELTZ, Cat. Mus, Godeffroy, No. 7, 1879 
p. 60 (Samoa). — 
