when fresh in arrack, dark brown abaue ott ted with pale 
or dull yellowish and olivaceous. Head and trunk below whit- 
ish. Narrow light edge around vertical fina. behind and 
partly marginal nerrow dark band around end of tail. 
Compared with small examples of about equal size 
from the Philippines the muzzle is found much broader, 
though this is likely due to the state of preservation of 
the Wilkes specimen. The Academy material further shows 
the scales all more or less distributed et right angles 
or as vertical rows with angles =—*> ; 5 to 7 times long 
as wide when adult and 50 to 70 reticulating circuli in 
long diameter. 
“Muraend ae , 
; + aneitensis(Giinther). 
Head 83; depth 22+; snout A 1/5 in head; gape 3; 
interorbital 4 7/8; mandible 2 1/5; pectoral 3 2/3. 
Body compressed, combined head and trunk about 14 
in rest of body. Head width 2 2/5 its length, pharynx 
scarcely swollen. Snout well depressed, surface convex, 
length about 4/5 its width. Eye small, largely superior, 
2 in snout. No eyelids. Mauth large, horizontal, gape ex- 
tending back little beyond eve. Lips about equally wide, 
fleshy. Jaws about equal. Teeth conic, uniform, in brodd 
bands in jaws narrowed to rictus. Vomerine bands wide as jaw 
LT 
bands at first, rappidly narrows behind. Tongue free. Inter- 
orbital scarcely convex to level. Gill opening 15 in snout. 
